Online Festival THE SHAPE OF A CIRCLE IN THE MIND OF A FISH:
THE UNDERSTORY OF THE UNDERSTORY5 & 6 DECEMBER
FREE, ONLINEThe Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is a free online art and ecology festival investigating life in and under ground, featuring two days of talks, debate and performance.
Anthropologists, artists, architects, foragers and scientists will tell stories and share lessons to uncover what lies beneath our feet.
Sessions include: - Make your own neo-soil at home with a recipe from artist Asad Raza
- Hear fungal ecologist Lynne Boddy on the beauty and potential of death, rot and decay, and how we can harness this amazing ability to regenerate life
- Receive insights from techno-botanical coven The Coven Intelligence Program on what plants can teach machines about ethics
- Meet pioneering architect Yasmeen Lari and Serpentine Pavilion 2021 architect Sumayya Vally in conversation about building materials, ingredients—the stuff of the earth—and their legacies of uproot, movement and endangerment
...and much more! View the full line-up here.
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PodcastBACK TO EARTH: CAN I GET BACK TO YOU?
Released today, 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 the climate emergency. How do you see Back to Earth contributing to environmental work? Is Back to Earth trying to change minds or hearts? When you are lost or need inspiration, who or what do you turn to? How does the future affect your thinking around environmental damage and remediation? Where are we now and where could we be going?
Featuring work by Himali Singh Soin and Dario Villanueva and a poem by Bhanu Kapil, written for Back to Earth, Instruction for mixed groups of artists, poets, activists and all those working for climate justice in the coming time. |
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ProjectMANTHIA DIAWARA Manthia Diawara is making a new film for Back to Earth, emerging from conversations with the community in which he lives for part of the year, the seaside town of Yene, Senegal. Read his discussion of the development of the film, the ways in which it records the community’s responses to climate change and his own part as a filmmaker in relation to the philosophical thinking of Édouard Glissant.
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LearnOCTAVIA POETRY COLLECTIVE
POETRY FROM THE PERSONAL
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.
Octavia Poetry Collective‘s Poetry from the Personal is an invitation for English teachers at primary, secondary and beyond to re-think conventional understandings of poetry and to build strategies for identifying all of our selves in literature. It leads out of current discourse around migration, movement and identity, exploring the potential of poetry to address diverse personal histories.
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 | OnlineCAMPBELL ADDY x JAMES BARNOR
For i-D's 40th Anniversary Issue, photographer Campbell Addy spoke on heritage and highlighted British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, as one of his major influences. Over the magnificent 12-page spread he reacts and creates imagery inspired by Barnor’s works.
In spring 2021, the Serpentine will exhibit the first major survey of Barnor's mammoth career, which spans six decades.
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"Challenging human-first perception is really interesting for me as a vehicle for experiencing other ways of knowing.”
Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategist at the Serpentine, speaks to designer and researcher Yasaman Sheri about her multifaceted practice, the challenges of art and science collaborations, and how the new Synthetic Ecologies Lab aims to address these.
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