ART CITIES:London -Park Nights 2016

Between June and September 2016, Serpentine Galleries presents “Park Nights”, an annual series of live art, dance, poetry, music, film, literature, performance and theory. Participants have been invited to devise new, site-specific live works for the Serpentine Pavilion 2016. In these multidisciplinary encounters with the structure, the “Park Nights” series proposes compelling, new ways to encounter architecture.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Serpentine Galleries Archive

8/6: Bjarke Ingels, Kunlé Adeyemi, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger, Yona Friedman and Asif Khan discuss their designs for the 2016 Pavilion and Summer Houses with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, in a series of panels moderated by Vicky Richardson.
10/6: Poets Fred Moten and Eileen Myles present readings in the Serpentine Pavilion. Multidisciplinary artist Sondra Perry responds to this context with a moving-image intervention.
17/6: “A Democratic Storytelling Experience”, an evening of storytelling and collective decision-making, inspired by folktales from the South of Italy, sees the audience take part in shaping a narrative. Presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust on the occasion of the Trust’s yearly Volcano Extravaganza festival in Stromboli, Italy.
24/6: “Towards a Radio Ballad: Songs of the Journey…”, Implicated Theatre, a group formed in 2011 as part of the Serpentine’s Edgware Road Project, present a participatory evening of theatrical interventions and sound compositions developed from a year-long collaboration with migrant hotel worker unions in London. With composer Patrick Farmer and director Frances Rifkin
22/7: A performance programe inspired by Dada, devised collectively by the artists, featuring madcap and anarchic objects breaking into song and Finnegan’s Wake, slapstick, whim wham and whazzup fluid. A zebra will be played like a harp: a Zarp. Participating artists: Brian Belott, with Billy Grant, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Matthew Thurber and Tyson Reeder
12/8: Through the articulation of his body, choreographer and dancer Silas Riener explores the potential of dance in describing things. This performance ”Thinging: Dance and Translation and the Work of Anne Carson” is inspired by world histories, personal histories, as well as the work of poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson. This new version of the performance, first presented at EMPAC, New York, in 2015, is adapted for the context of the Serpentine Pavilion 2016
16/9: Artist Jala Wahid brings together existing music, personal and collective histories, as well as her practice as a sculptor and film-maker, in an evening exploring collective affect, longing and love
23/9: BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, with Bas Jan, yeah you and more. A live recording of BBC Radio 3 “Late Junction” in the Serpentine Pavilion, featuring live sets by musicians and artists. All the performances recorded at this Park Night will be broadcast during the following week.

Info: Serpentine Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, London, Hours: 8/6 00:00, All the other dates 20:00, www.serpentinegalleries.org