The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is an ongoing research, publication and festival series on consciousness and intelligence across life forms, dedicated to unpicking those assumptions we make about the centrality and exceptionalism of humanity.
View the full programme as well as information on every intervention and all participants, at this link
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With The Understory of the Understory, we go to that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, the place where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet.
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is curated by Lucia Pietroiusti (Curator, General Ecology, Serpentine Galleries), Filipa Ramos, writer, animal whisperer with Kostas Stasinopoulos (Assistant Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine Galleries).
Produced by
Holly Shuttleworth (Producer, Serpentine Galleries)
Visual Identity by
Giles Round.
Web Design by
Shaun McCallum
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is part of the General Ecology project at Serpentine Galleries.
Livestreamed BSL will run throughout the festival
All of the participations are subtitled
Selected artworks will have audio descriptions – click on the links below to access:
The Coven Intelligence Program, Which plant would you choose to teach ethics to artificial intelligence? (2019)
Adham Faramawy, The air is subtle, various and sweet (2020)
Karrabing Film Collective, Just because you can’t see it… (2018)
Asad Raza, Ge (2020)
Ayesha Tan Jones, Into the Eartheart – a walk, a conversation, an exchange (2020)
Leena Valkeapäa and Oula A. Valkeapäa, Manifestations (2017)
