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For this Node Talk and Q&A, curator Lucia Pietroiusti introduces ways of tackling environmental issues as an art institution by sharing the ideas behind the long-term project General Ecology at Serpentine Galleries in London.
Founded by Pietroiusti in 2018, this project is a strategic effort to embed environmental subjects and methods within the Galleries’ programs, structures and networks. General Ecology includes publications, exhibitions, study programs as well as systemic and structural initiatives that intertwine questions of ecology, interspecies relationships, and plant intelligence.
"The General Ecology project was developed to address environmental questions through the operationalisation of environmental methods. The aim was, and still is, to experiment with the notion of changing an institution, any institution, subtly, so that it may adopt forms of planetary responsibility, beyond the confines of its stated mission and discipline."
Throughout the talk, and through practical examples, Pietroiusti will reflect on how institutions can borrow organizational patterns from nature to be less hierarchical, more collaborative, and inter-organizational.
Node Talks is a series of conversations that explore potential paths for future curatorial practices. Each talk will present inspiring art professionals who develop projects that have political, social or environmental impact.
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*Image: Claire Filmon performing Simone Forti's Sleep Walkers / Zoo Mantras at The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos. Serpentine's General Ecology project, 28 May 2018, ZSL London Zoo. Photo: Talie Rose Eigeland
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