'Justice is an ongoing methodology' - Ruha Benjamin.

What can digital assets and datasets do for Black liberation and social justice? From broken mechanics to Black Trans gospel, magic circles to terms and conditions of engagement, we join Berlin-based artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (Blacktransarchive.com) and New York based artist LaJune McMillian (The Black Movement Library) to find out how these artists are building counter-archives towards liberation through alternative practices of digital archiving and creation.

Playtesting is presented by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies and produced in collaboration with Sasha Edye-Lindner from Reduced Listening.

Additional sound design by Alx Suutoo Dabo.

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.

For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, artist and environmentalist Maya Lin invites us to give half our yard back to nature and explores how implementing nature-based solutions in agriculture and forestry has a substantial effect in the climate emergency.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

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.

For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, poet Bhanu Kapil shares a creative gesture to link cosmic energy to the earthly domain and an instruction for all those fighting for climate justice focusing on the question: What do you never want to experience in this space?

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

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.

For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, filmmaker Cauleen Smith talks us through a summer cocktail recipe for colonizers, asks us to consider our direct relationship with our surroundings and encourages us to think about our own culpability, violence and extraction.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

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.

For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, artist and musician Nahum invites us to experience intimacy with our planet and our galaxy. Exploring earthbound existence, through visible and invisible connections, Nahum encourages listeners to open their mouths when it's raining, swallow a piece of cloud and travel to outer space.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

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.

For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes. We are encouraged to move away from a fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and towards a love of spiders (arachnophilia), both here and in Webs of Life, presented by Serpentine and AcuteArt. With vibrations from the Arachnophilia community: Nephila senegalensis, Pardosa lugubris, Cyrtophora citricola, Habronattus dossenus from the Arachnophilia Archives recorded at Studio Tomás Saraceno.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

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.

Back to Earth invites practitioners to respond to the environmental crisis and in this publication, 140 artists, scientists, architects and more continue this work & come together to create a 'do-it-yourself' guide on how to shape a more ecological, equitable future. The result is a compendium of recipes, sketches, photographs, essays, spells, and instructions that ask us to engage with the climate emergency in new and imaginative ways in our own lives.

For this podcast series we've invited 5 artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. Bhanu Kapil shares instructions for mixed groups of artists, poets, activists and all those working for climate justice, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes, Cauleen Smith shares advice for urban farmers and a cocktail recipe for colonisers, Maya Lin explores what happens when we surrender our yards back to nature and Nahum invites us to swallow a piece of cloud and travel to outer space.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams

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.

In this episode of On Practice we highlight the work of two of our long-term partners, The Voice of Domestic Workers and The Alliance for Inclusive Education, ALLFIE.

The Voice of Domestic Workers, is a grassroots organisation made up of multi-national migrant Domestic Workers in the UK.

They work to empower migrant domestic workers to stand up and voice their opposition to discrimination, inequality, slavery and all forms of abuse. You can read more about their support network, campaigns here, donate here, or support by purchasing their new Our Journey book

ALLFIE is a Disabled people-led organisation in the UK.

They campaign for the right of all Disabled pupils and students to be fully included in mainstream education, training and apprenticeships with all necessary supports. You can find out more about them here. You can stand up for inclusive education by signing their manifesto or help ALLFIE build a better, more inclusive world by becoming a member of the Alliance.

On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.

Image credit: Joy Yamusangie

Show Notes

Sam Curtis is an artist and curator based in London. Working with other people is central to his practice. Through dialogue, walking and making with others; his work explores ideas around agency, autonomy, exchange and labour.

He has exhibited and worked with Seymour Art Collective, Whitechapel Gallery, Edgware Road Project: Serpentine Galleries, Turner Contemporary, CREATE London, The Showroom, Eastside Projects, Arts Admin, Ateliers de Rennes Biennale, Beursschouwburg, News of the World and Pi: Artworks Istanbul. He has an MFA from Goldsmiths College and his work is represented by Division of Labour. He is currently curator at Bethlem Gallery.

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/which-way-now/

Portman Centre

The Portman Early Childhood Centre provides education, care and family support services for young children and their families living in the Church Street area of Westminster, North London. These include a nursery school, adult education classes, family support, employment services, parenting groups and workshops.

http://www.westminster-ne-centres.co.uk/en/about/

Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has written about environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold's current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018) and Correspondences (2020).

Voice of Domestic Workers

The Voice of Domestic Workers is an education and campaigning group calling for justice and rights for Britain's 16,000 migrant domestic workers. They provide educational and community activities for domestic workers – including English language lessons, drama and art classes and employment advice, and mount rescues for domestic workers stuck with abusive employers. Their work seeks to end discrimination and protect migrant domestic workers living in the UK by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare and legal advice.

https://www.thevoiceofdomesticworkers.com/ Instagram: @thevoiceofdomesticworkersTwitter: @thevoiceofdws

Disabled People Against Cuts

Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is an organisation for disabled people and allies to campaign against the impact of government spending cuts on the lives of disabled people. Formed on 3 October 2010 DPAC promotes full human rights and equality for all disabled people, and operates from the Social Model of Disability. DPAC was formed by a group of disabled people after the 3rd October 2010 mass protests against cuts in Birmingham, England. The 3rd October saw the first mass protest against the austerity cuts and their impact on disabled people - It was led by disabled people under the name of The Disabled Peoples' Protest.

https://dpac.uk.net/

ALLFIE

ALLFIE is a Disabled people-led organisation, which seeks to build alliances with individuals and organisations who share their vision. They successfully work with Disabled learners and parents and carers across a very wide range of educational needs, backgrounds and experiences and gain strength from that diversity.

Their relationships and influence stretch over a wide range of networks and alliances interested in education, inclusion, Disabled children's services, Disabled people's rights and equality, and human rights more generally. They have an impressive track record in successfully influencing change and a positive reputation nationally and internationally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWDUmYv2iY Instagram: @disabledpeopleagainstcuts

Katouche Goll

Katouche Goll is a disability activist and writer. She is passionate about fostering a productive dialogue about the intersection of Black and disabled identities. A recent first-class grad in BA History, Katouche enjoys sharing the knowledge of her degree through her advocacy for Black disabled young people. Featured on platforms such as Buzzfeed (2016), Kandaka (2017), BBC Radio 1Xtra (2018), TABOU Magazine and BlackBallad (2020). Katouche is also a makeup enthusiast who creates online content to promote diversity in beauty and highlight issues of inclusion.

Instagram: @itskatouche

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.

In this episode of On Practice we highlight the work of one of our long-term partners, Micro Rainbow, who support LGBTQI+ asylum seekers and refugees experiencing isolation in the UK.

You can read more about Micro Rainbow's work here, and Become An Ally or support the furnishing of their safe houses by sending an item from their Amazon Wish List.

On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.

Image credit: Joy Yamusangie.

Show Notes

Over the last year through the pandemic, we've seen more than ever how our individual actions impact others, how we're all interdependent. This three-part podcast series explores the practices that can sustain us individually and collectively – Cooking, Listening and Walking - and how they can be used to bring people together to work towards change.

Hosts Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp welcome artists, collaborators and friends to explore ideas and projects developed as part of Serpentine's Education and Civic programme, which connect communities, artists and activists to generate responses to pressing social issues. These are projects that have been developed in collaboration with people, centred on the body, the city, and exploring the injustices we experience in our everyday life. Hear from Jasleen Kaur, Elia Nurvista, Fozia Ismail, Ain Bailey, Micro Rainbow, Portman Early Childhood Centre, Ultra-red, Ximena Alarcón, Sam Curtis, Tim Ingold, Voice of Domestic Workers and Katouche Goll.

Each of the three episodes are accompanied by an exercise, kindly shared by the artists, an invitation to join their practice.

ABOUT AIN BAILEY

Ain Bailey is a sound artist and DJ. She facilitates workshops considering the role of sound in the formation of identity and recently held a residency at the ICA, London. Exhibitions in 2019 included 'The Range' at Eastside Projects, Birmingham; 'RE:Respite' at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, and 'And We'll Always Be A Disco In The Glow Of Love', a solo show at Cubitt Gallery, London. Bailey was also commissioned by Supernormal and Jupiter festivals to create and perform a new work, 'Super JR'. Last year, Bailey was commissioned by Radiophrenia Glasgow, a temporary art radio station, to create a new composition entitled 'Ode To The N.H.S.'. Currently, following a commission by Serpentine Projects, she is conducting sound workshops with LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers, as well as working on a commission for Savvy Contemporary's new radio station, SAVVYZAAR.

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ain-bailey/

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/sonic-stories/

Instagram: @ain.bailey

ABOUT MICRO RAINBOW

Micro Rainbow supports LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. Our work focuses on supporting isolated LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers who flee countries like Uganda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and many other countries where LGBTI people face persecution. Our projects tackle isolation through workshops, peer support groups and our choir. We also support refugees into employment and skills training, and support those starting or wanting to start small businesses. Micro Rainbow opened the first safe house in the United Kingdom dedicated solely to LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees. Our brand new safe housing project is the first of its kind in the UK and provides accommodation for LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers who face homelessness or dispersal. Our social inclusion tackles isolation experienced by LGBTI asylum seekers who flee their country and, coming to a new country, usually experience feelings of withdrawal.

https://microrainbow.org/ Instagram/Twitter: @Microrainbow

ABOUT SONIC STORIES

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ain-bailey/

ABOUT ULTRA-RED

In the worlds of sound art and modern electronic music, Ultra-red pursue an exchange between art and political organizing. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Ultra-red have over the years expanded to include artists, researchers and organisers from different social movements including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development, and the politics of HIV/AIDS.

Collectively, the group have produced radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations, texts and public space actions (ps/o). Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, Ultra-red take up the acoustic mapping of contested spaces and histories utilising sound-based research (termed Militant Sound Investigations) that directly engage the organizing and analyses of political struggles. Ultra-red were in residence with the Serpentine Galleries' Centre for Possible Studies from 2009 - 2013 resulting in the exhibition RE-ASSEMBLY.

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/the-school-and-the-neighbourhood-a-subverted-curriculum-2/

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ultra-reds-reassembly/

https://halfletterpress.com/ultra-red-workbook-07-re-assembly-pdf-5/

https://centreforpossiblestudies.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/the-school-and-the-neighbourhood-a-subverted-curriculum-launched/

ABOUT Ximena Alarcón

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Ximena Alarcón (PhD) is a sound artist and academic researcher interested in listening to in-between sonic spaces and how they are manifested in dreams, underground public transport and the migratory context. Her research focuses on creating telematic improvisations using Deep Listening®, and interfaces for relational listening. Her most recognized works are the interactive sound space Sounding Underground (IOCT-DMU, The Leverhulme Trust Fellowship 2007-2009), the series of telematic sound performances Networked Migrations (CRiSAP - UAL, 2011-2017), and INTIMAL: Interfaces for Listening Relational (RITMO-UiO, 2017-2019, Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship). Ximena is a certified Deep Listening tutor and has taught the practice in Colombia, India, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and the UK. She is currently a tutor in the online Deep Listening certification program offered by the Center for Deep Listening (RPI), and works independently in the second phase of the INTIMAL project that involves: an "embodied" physical-virtual system for relational listening in telematic sonic performance; a virtual territory of Latin American migrant women in Europe; and a telematic creation laboratory for the women who inhabit the INTIMAL territory.

https://www.ximenaalarcon.net/ Twitter: @ximesonic

Pedagogies of the ear

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/pedagogies-ear/

The soundcloud of this event -

https://soundcloud.com/serpentine-uk/sets/pedagogies-of-the-ear

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? This episode highlights artist Jasleen Kaur's collaboration with women from the Portman Early Childhood Centre through the Changing Play project Everyday Resistance, and includes Yogyakarta based artist and researcher Elia Nurvista's reflections on food and power, and researcher and cook Fozia Ismail speaking about food as resistance.

On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.

Image Credit: Joy Yamusangie.

Show Notes

Over the last year through the pandemic, we've seen more than ever how our individual actions impact others, how we're all interdependent. This three-part podcast series explores the practices that can sustain us individually and collectively – Cooking, Listening and Walking - and how they can be used to bring people together to work towards change. Hosts Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp welcome artists, collaborators and friends to explore ideas and projects developed as part of Serpentine's Education and Civic programme, which connect communities, artists and activists to generate responses to pressing social issues. These are projects that have been developed in collaboration with people, centred on the body, the city, and exploring the injustices we experience in our everyday life. Hear from Jasleen Kaur, Elia Nurvista, Fozia Ismail, Ain Bailey, Micro Rainbow, Portman Early Childhood Centre, Ultra-red, Ximena Alarcón, Sam Curtis, Tim Ingold, Voice of Domestic Workers and Katouche Goll.

Each of the three episodes are accompanied by an exercise, kindly shared by the artists, an invitation to join their practice.

Jasleen Kaur was born in Glasgow and is now based in London. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. She works with sculpture, video and writing.

Recent and forthcoming presentations include exhibitions and projects at the Wellcome Collection, UP Projects, Glasgow Women's Library, Market Gallery, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastside Projects and Hollybush Gardens. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Government Art Collection, Touchstones Rochdale and the Crafts Council.

https://youtu.be/1j5XreNGtYk?t=1644

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/everyday-resistance/

Instagram: @_jasleen.kaur_

Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food. Ismail is a researcher writing about race and British identity and has spoken at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, designed workshops with Keep It Complex, Jerwood Project Space and the Museum of London using food as a method to think through issues around race and empire in Britain today. Fozia is also part of Dhaquan Collective, a feminist art collective of Somali women, centering the voices of womxn and elders in the community, and privileging co-creation and collaboration. She was a City Fellow for the Arnolfini, Bristol in 2019. Her work has been published and featured in a range of media including Observer Food Magazine, Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and BBC Radio 4 Food Programme.

https://www.dhaqan.org/

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/radical-kitchen-2018-fozia-ismail-chilli/ https://www.araweloeats.com/

https://oxfordculturalcollective.com/fozia-ismail-food-as-resistance/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfCuBZdhlc&list=PLbP2rruaw4OvyHmG5tYtqgtJ67xIJ5rOf&index=1

Instagram: @arawelo_eats

Elia Nurvista is an artist who lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms — from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes — are Nurvista's entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. She runs Bakudapan, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects, and her social research forms the background of her individual projects, presented through mixed media installations, food workshops and group discussion. Her previous installations use a range of materials from crystalline sugar sculptures to sacks of rice, often incorporating video or mural painting and an element of audience interaction.

www.elianurvista.com

www.bakudapan.com

Instagram: @elianurvista