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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

To follow and join the conversation #understory, head over to Serpentine twitter

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)

 

Livestream BSL will run throughout the festival and will be made available afterwards for the archive

General Ecology is the Serpentine’s long-term and ongoing project researching complexity, more-than-humanism, climate justice and environmental balance. Founded in 2018, General Ecology is a strategic effort to embed environmental subjects and methods throughout the Galleries’ outputs, structures and networks. General Ecology concerns itself simultaneously with environmental and organisational ecologies.

You can find out more about the project here.