Serpentine Podcast: Episode 2 | Intimacies: Family
Family is a contested and challenging space for some, while being a place where others find sanctuary, safety, and profound relationships. This episode considers different expectations and realities of love, care and identity within biological and chosen families.
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Episode 2 | Intimacies: Family
Following strangers, we now turn to the people our lives were first entangled with: our families. Family is a contested and challenging space for some, while being a place where others find sanctuary, safety, and profound relationships. This episode considers different expectations and realities of love, care and identity within biological and chosen families, and asks how we intentionally nurture, negotiate and shift our family relationships.
How and why do artists involve their family members and homes in their work – and what do they need to take into consideration when bringing this to an audience?
Featuring an original sound work by Angelo Madsen Minax, an interview with Hetain Patel, audio excerpts from projects led by Helen Cammock and Rehana Zaman from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Elizabeth Graham in conversation with Gaylene Gould.
Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies
This series of Serpentine Podcast explores the complexities of closeness and asks how we can expand and evolve our connection with ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies considers many forms, ideas and understandings of intimacy. Last series reimagined the world, and it’s now time to look at ourselves and our relationships. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and others on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.
Delving into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice, this series interrogates intimacy in unexpected ways – 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, pieces from the Serpentine archive, and tenderly crafted sound worlds to explore what is happening within and between us. This series itself is an exercise in intimacy: personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways.
Contributors to Intimacies
Adrian Piper, Scottee, Hetain Patel, Angelo Madsen Minax, Tomás Saraceno, Lamin Fofana, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Brontez Purnell, Pixy Liao, Lina Ghotmeh, Black Power Naps, Olivia Laing, Axel Kacoutié, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, with archival materials by Cecilia Vicuña, Helen Cammock and collaborators, Rehana Zaman and collaborators, P. Staff, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Agnès Varda, and Luchita Hurtado.
