Serpentine Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

As our journey through intimacy draws to a close, it’s time to look inward and reflect on how we can get closer to ourselves. We’re considering ideas of self-knowledge and self-love, alongside what it means to draw on your own life and experiences in a creative practice.

What do artists who bring personal and intimate narratives into their work encounter? How can we open up to our vulnerability and decide when to safely share that with others? And could these acts bring us closer together – perhaps helping us build a deeper and more compassionate connection with both self and others?

Featuring an interview with Olivia Laing, an original sound work by Axel Kacoutié, audio excerpts from Agnès Varda and Luchita Hurtado from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

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You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

This episode opens up to consider intimacy with the world around us. Today, many of us feel – and are – disconnected from place, and not everyone feels equally at home in the spaces we move through. Ranging from urban and built environments to social and digital worlds, this episode asks what we need to be able to feel comfortable and intimate with our surroundings.

How are artists challenging and working with different forms of space and place? And what happens when we can reconnect with the elements, environments, people, and other beings around us?

Featuring an interview with 2023 Serpentine Pavilion architect Lina Gotmeh, an original sound work by Black Power Naps, an audio excerpt from a project by Jakob Kudsk Steensen from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Kay Watson in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

How can the way we play change the way we live? How are creativity, collaboration, and change adaptation related, and why do these activities help people to thrive? In the third episode of the REWORLDING series, host Gaylene Gould speaks to artists and architects who are creating new possibilities through play spaces, games, and playable digital realities, and asking what these can teach us about how we will navigate the world to come.

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This episode features Gabriel Massan, Alvaro Barrington, Assemble, Penny Wilson & Assemble Play attendees, Tamar Clarke-Brown (Curator (Commissions), Arts Technologies, Serpentine), music and reflections from members of Material Institute, and sound created by LYZZA for Gabriel Massan’s upcoming game,  Third World: The Bottom Dimension.

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

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Thanks to Rainy Miller (mastering engineer) for his support on LYZZA’s sound from Gabriel Massan’s Third World: The Bottom Dimension, which was commissioned by Serpentine Arts Technologies and features Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Novíssimo Edgar and LYZZA.

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Musicians from Material Institute heard jamming in the studio are: Jaida Stallworth (Adiaj), Nathan Watts (Sly Watts), Matthew Lee (HU$H), Andy Gross (sound engineer)

Reflections from members of Material Institute are by: François Boudreaux (Fashion Instructor), Riley Teahan (Fashion & Textiles), Eric Guerrero (Fashion), JDot Smith

How can looking back alter what we wish for the future? In this episode, artists and researchers discuss how they question accepted histories, and how reapproaching the past creatively can open up possibilities in the present.

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This episode features Samson Kambalu, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Zing Tsjeng, Yesomi Umolu (Director of Curatorial Affairs & Public Practice, Serpentine), Etel Adnan & Gavin Bryars performing Five Senses for One Death at Serpentine’s Memory Marathon in 2012, and sound from KMRU’s Temporary Stored. 

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

Can fiction remake reality? In the first episode of REWORLDING, we hear from artists, musicians and writers who use dreaming and imagination to remake worlds.

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This episode features Tai Shani, Irenosen Okojie reading 'Black Planetarium', Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, the Holorama soundscape by Perez & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster from Alienarium 5, Kostas Stasinopoulos (Associate Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine), and The Whole Earth Chanting by Libby Heaney & Nabihah Iqbal.

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

What is a world, and how do we begin to reshape it? Introducing REWORLDING – a new Serpentine Podcast series, hosted by Gaylene Gould. The podcast features international artists, thinkers, writers, designers, and other practitioners who are dreaming of a shift in our reality. Contributors include Tai Shani, Etel Adnan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Es Devlin, Gabriel Massan, Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and many more. Launching Wednesday 18 January 2023 on all podcast platforms, with a new episode released weekly for 5 weeks.

Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

Credits: 

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING. 

Transcript: 

Gaylene Gould: Right now, it feels like the old world is crumbling [echoes]. We're kind of teetering on the edge of a new one, but if we're gonna sidestep the problems that have played us so far, we are gonna need new tools, new ways to be together, to live new, and to connect [echoes].

Tai Shani: Any of the things that do have that idea in them of like what the world could be [are like] casting a stone into darkness, but that stone gets met at some point? Or, that's the hope, isn't it?

Zing Tsjeng: What if we just thought a little bit bigger here, and we came up with an alternative view of the future and what it could be like.

Gaylene Gould: What is a world and how do we begin to reshape it? What role can artists play in this? These are the questions we'll be exploring in REWORLDING, a new Serpentine Podcast series hosted by me, Gaylene Gould.

Irenosen Okojie: You can create worlds that people don't recognise. You can create worlds that feel familiar, but suddenly you take somebody somewhere completely new and recalibrate a universe. [echoes]

Gaylene Gould: The Serpentine program is all about exploring art and ideas for a changing world, and I've been working with the team to hunt for tools that will help us fashion a more expansive, compassionate and resilient world.

Samson Kambalu: For me, remembering is almost like a creative exercise, you know, to try to get back to the present moment by the way of the past,

Declan Rowe John: Art is like a way to portray your message to the world and kind of bring people together and show that they aren't alone.

Gaylene Gould: Throughout this series, I'll be speaking to leading artists, designers, writers, and thinkers. We'll be hearing new sound art as well as diving back into Serpentine's vast archive to try and answer some of these questions.

Performer from Tai Shani's work: I pray you can survive this and live forever

Gaylene Gould: In REWORLDING, we'll be dreaming, listening, playing, remembering, and connecting in radical new ways. We'll be traveling together through gardens and game worlds, inner states and outer space, and I cannot wait to share the journey with you. Our first episode drops in January, 2023, so subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now and start your year by reworlding with us.

In Jay Bernard's Crystals of this Social Substance, we hear eight young people from South London discuss money in a conversation that circulates around class, economics and inequality. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Reflecting on Brixton's sites of community care and resistance, Ain Bailey's Atlantic Railton brings together a series of intimate conversations and sonic resonances. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

In this work by Torkwase Dyson, an impactful collage of sound embodies breathing in relation to the environment, the politics of space, and the rights of Black bodies. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Rooted in thinking about the landscape around Serpentine, Brian Eno's IN A GARDEN creates a generative space through layered sound. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively.