Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. In this episode, artist and musician Nahum invites us to experience intimacy with our planet and our galaxy.

Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. In this episode, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes.

On Practice: Walking asks how does walking shape our experience of the city? How can it be used as a tool for resistance and change? Featuring artist Sam Curtis’s Changing Play project with children from the Portman Early Childhood centre, Which Way Now? alongside interviews with anthropologist Tim Ingold, campaign group Voice of Domestic Workers and writer Katouche Goll.

On Practice: Listening asks: How can listening form a space of political encounter? What is the difference between listening and hearing? How do other people hear? This episode features artist Ain Bailey’s collaboration with Micro Rainbow alongside recordings from Pauline Oliveros’ tuning meditations, a sound piece from artist collective Ultra-red and a contribution from academic and sound practitioner Ximena Alarcón.

On Practice: Cooking asks how cooking can bring people together and provide nourishment and care? What are the ways that cooking together can open up difficult conversations - about racism, colonialism and migration? Including: Jasleen Kaur’s collaboration with women from the Portman Early Childhood Centre through the Changing Play project Everyday Resistance, Yogyakarta based artist and researcher Elia Nurvista’s and researcher and cook Fozia Ismail.

What are earth, land, soil, ground and dirt? Join us in that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet. This episode is a collaboration between Future Ecologies and Serpentine Podcast.

Released on the Winter Equinox, 21 December 2020, tarax'sup? is a short meditative exercise inspired by the common dandelion written and performed by Sophia Al-Maria, with music by Kelsey Lu and cover art by Tosh Basco (boychild). Recorded by Thibault Verdron in Arles, France with special thanks to LUMA Foundation. Mastered by Heba Kadry. Dedicated to the memory of Rainbow, canine companion of artist Precious Okoyomon. Curated by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Eva Jäger, Melissa Blanchflower and Kay...

"In the Wobble" On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Podcast hosts the three-part series, "On Fire" from Future Ecologies: A story of burning, first released in 2018. Sign up to The Understory of the Understory at https://bit.ly/FishyGround.

On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Podcast hosts the three-part series, "On Fire" from Future Ecologies: A story of burning, first released in 2018. Sign up to The Understory of the Understory at https://bit.ly/FishyGround.

“Camas, Cores, and Spores” On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Podcast hosts the three-part series, "On Fire" from Future Ecologies: A story of burning, first released in 2018. Sign up to The Understory of the Understory at https://bit.ly/FishyGround.

The concluding episode of this podcast season examines the past, present and future of the Back to Earth project, which invites artists to respond to climate emergency. Where are we now and where could we be going? Featuring work by Himali Singh Soin, Dario Villanueva and Bhanu Kapil. Back to Earth is supported by Fiorucci Art Trust, Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo De Li Galli and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.

What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation and queerness together? Victoria Sin welcomes guest host Kostas Stasinopoulos to dive into transformation, queerness, the natural and unnatural, wild, decolonial and submerged perspectives. They are joined by Ama Josephine Budge, Macarena Gómez-Barris and Jack Halberstam they ask: “where does wildness live?”.

Today’s episode features perspectives from self-organised Indigenous organisations at the front line of extraction and climate change, as well as artists researching our more-than-human entanglements. Released on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Standing with the Forest supports and platforms campaigns at the intersection of Indigenous activism and ecology. Support the work of APIB: http://apib.info/apoie/?lang=en

How are artists using technologies to imagine alternate realities, new alien languages and manipulate time? Systems and Sprouts is a new episode with host Victoria Sin and guest host Victoria Ivanova, together they explore the ways technology is being used as a connector to things we don’t usually perceive, from extinct species and ancient landscapes to space bacteria and the manipulation of time itself. Interviews include Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Yasaman Sheri and sound works by Jenna Sutela. 

What does design look like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility? What does designing with and for the non-human mean? Host Victoria Sin is joined by Rebecca Lewin, Curator of Exhibitions and Design, together they dive into everything from eco-design led exhibition making, to asking questions about the future of design education and ecological practices. Lewin is joined by Formafantasma, Dunne & Raby and sound works from Black Quantum Futurism.

How can botanical knowledge support practices of ecological and personal healing? In episode 4: By Leaves We Listen, hosts Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti are joined by Emma Nicolson. Emma moderates a roundtable with artists Keg de Souza, Nabihah Iqbal and botanist Greg Kenicer. Featuring sound works by Rachel Pimm and Keg de Souza. Image: 2019, Rachel Pimm, (The Great Exhibition of) The Works of Cash Crops. Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

What are artists’ roles in knowing or making tomorrow? What are alternative ways of knowing our planet? Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti return to their roots of General Ecology, with conversations recorded at a summit organised by creative sustainability charity Julie's Bicycle. Featuring Alison Tickell, Zadie Xa, Climate Symphony and Cosmo Sheldrake. Image credit: Zadie Xa, Moon Poetics 4: Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers (2020). Supported by Outset Contemporary Art Fund.

In Episode 3, hosts Victoria Sin & Lucia Pietroiusti dive into one of the core ecological principles of Back to Earth: we are all interconnected, smaller pieces of a larger whole. Featuring conversations with Brian Eno and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Elizabeth Povinelli of Karrabing Film Collective, as well as sound works by Tabita Rezaire and clips from Karrabing’s 2018 film, The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland. Image: Tabita Rezaire, Lubricate Coil Engine, 2017. Supported by Outset...

How are artists developing campaigns for the Earth? How can an artwork reconnect us with the environment? Can we "feel" the speed of climate change, or hear the sounds of a seed? Episode 2, hosts Victoria Sin & Lucia Pietroiusti welcome Ayesha Tan Jones, James Bridle & Cecilia Vicuña, three artists participating in Back to Earth, to begin to sow the seeds of their multifaceted campaigns. Image: Semiya/Seed Songs, Cecilia Vicuña, 2015.  

How can art respond to the climate emergency? How can society collectively self-transform? How can an arts institution contribute to discourse around the climate crisis in a meaningful way? Hosts Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti welcome the new series with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Suzanne Dhaliwal, Cooking Sections, students from the RCA and sound works by Brian Eno, to take things Back to Earth.

Plant roots move towards the water and their leaves grow towards the sun. They remember, and they learn from, their experiences. They don't have neurons. Does it matter? Episode 4 asks about plant intelligence, and what we mean when we talk about intelligence in the first place. On 19.05.19, Serpentine Galleries held the fourth symposium in the series on consciousness across species, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, subtitled with Plants. Victoria Sin brings us backstage exclusive...

What's sexier, an orchid or a lettuce? Episode 3 of The Serpentine Podcast: On General Ecology asks, what can plants teach us about sex? Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti reflect on the long and deep relationship between botany and eroticism. We hear backstage exclusive interviews with Emanuele Coccia, Laurence Totelin and Jenna Sutela from the Serpentine's General Ecology project's PLANTSEX event at Ciné Lumiere, London, in April. With sound works from Jenna Sutela and Alex Cecchetti, as...

The Serpentine Podcast brings you the curators for Serpentine Projects and Serpentine Education - Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp. They bring us sounds from their one day forum at Conway Hall in London, Rights to the City?. We hear artists, activists and educators from across the world considering how artists, institutions and people can transform society. Hosts: Amal Khalaf & Alex Thorp Production: Paul Smith for Reduced Listening Mixing: Steve Wyatt

Episode 2 of The Serpentine Podcast: On General Ecology. As humans, we have a need to simplify our surroundings to understand them. How can we communicate the complexity of the world in a way we understand, without losing its meaning? In this episode, Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti digest material from the Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish second symposium, curated by Lucia and Filipa Ramos. Anthropologist Anna Tsing encourages us to consider the subjectivity of the land through...