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PRECIOUS OKOYOMON,
THE END OF THE WORLD
FRIDAY 5 JULY, 8PM
SERPENTINE PAVILION
TICKETS £8 / £6 (CONC.)
COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019 begins 5 July with poet and artist Precious Okoyomon and her new play The End of the World. This spectral-performance invites audiences to consider the visceral experience of anti-blackness as an errant and pathological virus. The angels of light, death and the sun have fallen to earth and a reckoning is coming.
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JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN,
THE DEEP LISTENER
FRIDAY 12 JULY, 8PM
SERPENTINE PAVILION
TICKETS AVAILABLE £8 / £6 (CONC.)
Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen creates a sonic and immersive environment for The Deep Listener, the Serpentine Galleries’ inaugural Augmented Architecture commission. Steensen presents an evening of sound, poetry and spoken word that extends our senses, our awareness of the earth and the environments around us by slowing down, listening, paying attention and using our ears.
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SERPENTINE AUGMENTED ARCHITECTURE
THE DEEP LISTENER
FROM FRIDAY 12 JULY
SERPENTINE GALLERY AND ONLINE
FREE
Jakob Kudsk Steensen's The Deep Listener is a new augmented reality installation that immerses visitors within the complex ecosystems that circulate around the Serpentine Galleries park setting. Presented by the Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Sir David Adjaye OBE.
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SERPENTINE PAVILION DESIGNED BY JUNYA ISHIGAMI
UNTIL 6 OCTOBER
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE
The Serpentine Pavilion designed by Junya Ishigami takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world. The design of the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge from the ground of the surrounding Park. The Pavilion is home to COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019 taking place on selected Fridays. Book now!
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LUCHITA HURTADO:
I LIVE I DIE I WILL BE REBORN
UNTIL 23 OCTOBER
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
FREE
"Marcel Duchamp massaged her feet and Leonora Carrington built her kids a house. But the work of the 98-year-old Venezuela-born painter is every bit as extraordinary as her life"
★★★★★ The Guardian
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FAITH RINGGOLD
UNTIL 8 SEPTEMBER
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE
"From her early paintings — the American People series, reflecting on racial injustice and the civil rights struggle and Black Light, focusing on painterly colour and black identity — to her quilt paintings, weaving together personal stories with African American history, this show is both harrowing and joyous."
★★★★★ Evening Standard
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SATURDAY TALKS:
NATALIA GRABOWSKA ON
SERPENTINE PAVILION 2019
SATURDAY 6 JULY, 3PM
SERPENTINE PAVILION
FREE, DROP-IN
Learn more about the Serpentine Pavilion and Junya Ishigami's practice through this tour with Assistant Curator Natalia Grabowska. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks.
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SATURDAYS LIVE:
AYESHA TAN-JONES,
PARASITES OF PANGU
SATURDAY 20 JULY, 3PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE, DROP-IN
Ayesha Tan-Jones presents Parasites of Pangu, a dystopian opera exploring the world through the story of an archaeologist of the future, based on a Chinese creation myth.
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MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
UNTIL 25 AUGUST
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
TICKETS £12.95 / £9.50 (CONC.)
Eight multifaceted installations from the iconic Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth artist draw on architecture, cultural artefacts, cuisine and geopolitics from 750BC to today.
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FESTIVAL OF PLAY
20-21 JULY, 11AM - 4.30PM
V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
FREE, DROP-IN
Play is for everyone. Celebrate all thing play with us over this two-day festival filled with workshops, games, and activities designed for all ages. An event in partnership with UCL’s Playing the Archive research project.
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