Serpentine Galleries - Formafantasma opens today!

 

REOPENING TODAY Exhibition FORMAFANTASMA: CAMBIO 29 SEPTEMBER-15 NOVEMBER FREE Formafantasma's Cambio, which explores the role of design in the climate crisis, addresses our responsibility to look beyond traditional approaches to initiate informed, collaborative responses. This exhibition seeks connections with science, conservation, engineering and policymaking, adopting a pioneering multidisciplinary approach to contemporary design. Click here to read more about the exhibition or below to book now.   BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET CRACKS IN THE CURRICULUM Learn JACOB V JOYCE + RUDY LOEWE:  SWEET REBELLION LAUNCHING FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER    Cracks in the Curriculum is a workshop series and publishing platform that aims to bring artists and educators together to think about how to address pressing social issues in the classroom.   Created by London-based visual artists Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe, Sweet Rebellion responds to the histories of British sugar plantations and the Black activism that contributed to their abolition. The resource is an invitation for History and Art teachers to rethink the ways we talk about colonialism and its legacy in schools.    Download the resource from Friday 2 October or click below to view other Cracks in the Curriculum resources in the series.   READ MORE THE LONG TIME SESSIONS: WHOSE FUTURES? Online Event THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER 1-2:30PM BST FREE BOOKING ESSENTIAL Join speakers from around the world to look at the ways that present-day inequalities get projected into futures and to ask: Who has access to shaping and imagining futures? Participants include: writer and activist Yasnaya Elena Aguilar, publisher Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, filmmaker and activist Caterina Coppel, designer and futurist Anab Jain (Superflux) and artist and activist Shilo Shiv Suleman. The Long Time Sessions is a fortnightly online talk series on cultivating care for the world beyond our lifetimes. READ MORE METABOLIC SELVES Online Event THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER 7PM BST FREE LIVE STREAM   What pollutants are we unknowingly ingesting into our bodies? How do these substances affect the way our bodies work? Join us on Thursday for the launch of Metabolic Selves, a new collective and online platform by @rca.ads3, a student group from the Royal College of Art's School of Architecture. Sociologist Hannah Landecker, human rights and environmental activist Kumi Naidoo and artist-researcher and writer Susan Schuppli will discuss the ideas behind the project. READ MORE RADIO BALLADS Online Event RAFTS SHOWCASE SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER FREE BOOKING ESSENTIAL    Join us for a free special preview of work in progress from RAFTS, part of our Radio Ballads project.   This showcase will bring together members of Green Shoes Arts in London with Project Well Being, an Interfaith Homeless Shelter in Idaho. Sharing conversations, stories and poems devised in workshops so far, the afternoon will focus on the symbol of a raft during times of crisis. This event will explore how to maintain connection during a pandemic and will ask, in moments of change and transition, what supports and keeps us afloat?  Contributions include music from artist Rory Pilgrim and singer songwriter Robyn Haddon. The event is presented in partnership with LISTEN Festival. Radio Ballads is part of the Serpentine's Civic Projects Programme. READ MORE Read REBECCA ALLEN INTERVIEW AVAILABLE NOW “Artists are inventors too; coming up with new ideas and new forms of expression, so to be in a research lab and to be an artist inventing new things made a lot of sense to me.” Pioneering digital artist and researcher Rebecca Allen talks Kraftwerk, video games and artificial life in this exclusive interview with Kay Watson, the Serpentine's Arts Technologies Curator. READ MORE