shush (feat. lucinda chua): Charlie Fox, 2022

This flowing meditation by Tabita Rezaire invites us to take a breath of gratitude in communion and union with plant life.

Earth’s Breath: Tabita Rezaire, 2022

To accompany Serpentine's 2022 Radio Ballads exhibition, we commissioned sound objects that could hold and share the project's collaborative processes, communicate care through sound, and invite listeners into the emotional world of Radio Ballads.

Referencing the methods used in the original BBC Radio Ballads, audio producer Nada Smiljanic made eight sound objects by stitching, layering and weaving together sound and music that had been captured by the Radio Ballads team throughout three years of collaborations, conversations and performances. 

These creative tracks are permanently available on Serpentine’s free Bloomberg Connects app, alongside an introduction from the Civic team and an interview between Amal Khalaf, Civic Curator, Serpentine, and Marijke Steedman, founder of New Town Culture.

Connecting

Processing

Supporting

Voicing

Embodying

Listening

An Invitation to Pause

Dreaming

Did you know that orchids and lettuces were used in ancient Greek and Roman recipes to enhance and suppress sexual appetite? What can plants teach us about sex and desire? In Episode 3 of The Serpentine Podcast: On General Ecology, Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti reflect on the long and deep relationship between botany, eroticism, agriculture and myth, featuring exclusive interviews with Emanuele Coccia and sound works by Jenna Sutela, among others.


Hosts: Victoria Sin & Lucia Pietroiusti
Production: Femi Oriogun Williams and Jessie Lawson for Reduced Listening
Mixing: Steve Wyatt
Image: Alex Cecchetti, Belladonna, PLANTSEX, 12 April 2019, in collaboration with Institut français du Royaume-Uni and Mal Journal © Talie Rose Eigeland

The Serpentine Podcast: On General Ecology - Episode 3: PLANTSEX

Plant roots move towards the water and their leaves grow towards the sun. They remember, and they learn from, their experiences. They don't have neurons. Does it matter? Episode 4 asks about plant intelligence, and what we mean when we talk about intelligence in the first place. On 19.05.19, Serpentine Galleries held the fourth symposium in the series on consciousness across species, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, subtitled with Plants. Victoria Sin brings us backstage exclusive interviews and new sound pieces from Chris Watson, Elvia Wilke, Antoine Bertin, Michael Marder and Rosa Johan Uddoh. With additional sound from Saelia Aparicio and Jenna Sutela.

Hosts: Victoria Sin
Production: Femi Oriogun-Williams and Jessie Lawson for Reduced Listening
Mixing: Steve Wyatt

The Serpentine Podcast: On General Ecology - Episode 4: With Plants

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