
Serpentine Podcast
Serpentine Podcast explores art and ideas for a changing world. A curated listening experience that investigates multiple facets of a single theme in each series, Serpentine Podcast elevates the voices of artists and others whose work engages with the issues faced by our societies.
Latest episodes

Nov 22, 2018 • 52min
On Work: Algorithmic Superstructures
How are algorithms shaping the world of work? We team up with IMPAKT Festival to explore how data and public space are interlinked + how sound is shaped by data. The Demystification Committee share sounds from the 2010 Flash Crash and we listen in on a discussion on data and public space between Judith Bihr, Charlie Clemoes and Albert Meijer, chaired by Marina Otero. (369) Podcast produced in collaboration with Reduced Listening

Nov 8, 2018 • 1h 6min
On Work: UBI Etc.
Karl Marc rapping plus how will political participation look when technology brings about the collapse of capitalism? It's a big one + some big guests. Can there ever be a universal basic income? Intelligence Squared panel bring us up to speed on all things UBI. Podcast produced in collaboration with Reduced Listening.

Oct 25, 2018 • 58min
On Work: Dream Works
It’s not just Marcel Proust and Truman Capote who do their best work in bed anymore, now we all do! Beatriz Colomina engages in horizontal thinking and welcomes guests into her bed: Katharine Vega, Nina Power, and Matthew Fuller. Plus new temporal realities with Dr Helga Schmid, and a performance from Precious Okoyomon. Podcast produced in collaboration with Reduced Listening.

Oct 11, 2018 • 48min
On Work: The Work of Art
Ever considered the function of art as an anthropological question? How do you find your identity as an artist? What does it mean to make work as an artist? We talk with Daniel Ross, Jon Gray, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Sir David Adjaye.

Sep 27, 2018 • 25min
On Work: Working the Marathon
You get it, it’s all about labour, we make today’s episode in one day, scripted, recorded and edited - straight from the Royal Geographic Society + 70 guests… we work for work! Wth Stella Creasy, Wilson Oryema, Nick Srnicek, Nanu Al-Hamad, Beatriz Colomina, and more.

Sep 13, 2018 • 55min
On Work: Home
Did we welcome work into the home? Has our existence transformed through this new environment? We teamed up with the Design Museum to think about how the merging of work and home life: the new work-home environment has transformed domestic life, challenging traditional notions of privacy, efficiency and ideas around domestic labour.

Aug 30, 2018 • 41min
On Work: Invisible Labour
What part of your work are you least valued for? What aspects of your work life are invisible? Do we seek to make them visible or not...what are the implications for interspecies and posthuman landscapes? We teamed up with the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.

Aug 16, 2018 • 47min
On Work: Playbour
Do you work for pleasure, or work to survive? We teamed up with Furtherfield, another gallery in London to discuss Playbour and gamification. Hosts Lucia and Victoria also listen to Treebour: an audio art piece by Marija Bozinovska Jones, originally created for Furtherfield’s Playbour exhibition.