Starts at midnight (GMT+1)
October 18, 2015
The Transformation Marathon begins Saturday, October 17, 10am–10pm, on stage at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, West Carriage Drive, London W2 3XA and live-streamed via YouTube. It continues on Serpentine Radio through the night.
Click here for a full list of Marathon participants.
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Serpentine Marathon series, the 2015 Transformation Marathon launches a night-long broadcast of talks, conversations and performances to follow the day-long, on-stage event at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Serpentine Radio invites artists, activists, musicians, writers, philosophers, poets, filmmakers and scientists to intervene in all aspects of the broadcast, including news, talk shows, time announcements, weather reports and radio plays. Presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, London.
Broadcast schedule
Times are GMT+1
Before midnight
Steven Warwick (Heatsick), Heatsick: Exclusive Mix of New Works
Bill Kouligas, Devoid
12–3am
Samson Kambalu in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Rosi Braidotti, Language is a Virus
Katherine Angel and Helen Hester, Technosexuals
Ayşe Gül Altınay with Nil Mutluer and Yıldız Tar, Feminist and Queer Transformations of Politics, War and Peace in Turkey
Elysia Crampton, March 5th Facebook Post
Jumana Manna, A Magical Substance by Night
Jaakko Pallasvuo and Roy Boswell, The Hunchback of South Bermondsey
William Pope.L, Klingon Talk (Attempt #2): The Colony
3–6am
Deep Lab, Erasing Borders
Nick Bostrom, reading from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Lynn Hershman Leeson, selected excerpts from The Infinity Engine
Haunted Machines, Alchemy
Jude Crilly, Calais Bounce
CAConrad, Magenta Capstone of Apex Poetry Interviews CAConrad, with Mica Sigourney
Alexandra Kleeman and Rachel Rose in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
6–9am
William Pope.L, Klingon Talk (Attempt #2): The Colony
Federico Campagna with Peter Adamson, Charles Hope and Anthony Arthur Long, Neo Antiquity: Transformations of Philosophy and Poetry
Lucy Mercer with Liz Berry, Ken Cockburn, Francine Elena, Alec Finlay, Harry Gilonis, Declan Ryan and Mark Waldron, Neo Antiquity: Transformations of Philosophy and Poetry
Helen Benigson, Cashino Desert
Aram Saroyan with John Densmore, Sawing the Wood
Patrick Mudekereza, Transformation
9am–1pm
Disobedient Films with Jamie Perera, Climate Symphony
Jalal Toufic, An Outstanding—and Still Crazy—Task: Transforming Ourselves into Gods
Julieta Aranda, Data: Synthetic Recollections of Things that Never Happened
Julia Tcharfas and Holly White, Interspecies Communication
Sophia Al-Maria and Maurice Louca
Time is Away, Time is Away: Neither Created Nor Destroyed
Judy Chicago in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Candice Lin, To Recognise Oneself as Parasite
Koki Tanaka, Sound of Democracy (Field Recording / September 14, 2015 / Tokyo)
Throughout
Tim Etchells, Time Piece / Interstitials
Samson Kambalu, Why I am so Clever
Lorenzo Senni
The Transformation Marathon is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes, and Director of International Projects; Lucia Pietroiusti, Curator, Public Programmes; Ben Vickers, Curator of Digital, and Claude Adjil, Assistant Curator. The Transformation Marathon on Serpentine Radio is produced by Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura and Cory Scozzari with Kei Kreutler and Maximilian Behrens. Radio presenters: Gil Leung and Rebecca Lewin. Graphic design by Folder (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, Alessandro Busi, Michela Di Cristina, Aaron Gillett, Alice Longo). Curatorial Assistants: Chris Bayley, Taylor Le Melle, Sophie Oxenbridge and Nefeli Skarmea.
Transformation Marathon supported by
ArDe
The Lars Windhorst Foundation
The Hayden Family Foundation
Naomi Milgrom Foundation
DLD
Goethe-Institut, London
And those donors who wish to remain anonymous
Technology and Media Partners
Google Cultural Institute
YouTube
Advisors
Aecom
Weil
Serpentine Galleries supported by
Arts Council England