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Serpentine Galleries and COS are delighted to announce the programme for COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019, the Serpentine’s annual series of experimental, interdisciplinary commissions.
Park Nights 2019 will present eight evenings of new work, taking place in the Serpentine Pavilion, which this year is designed by award-winning architect Junya Ishigami, and for the first time this year, a specially conceived off-site Park Night at the hybrid COS space in Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross.
Park Nights 2019, from 5 July - 27 September, will present eight evenings of new work commissioned by the Serpentine from international artists and practitioners, each responding to Ishigami’s contemplative design. Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world, creating in the interior of the Pavilion an enclosed cave-like space and an imaginative space for live encounters.
COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019 begins in July with Precious Okoyomon, an artist and writer whose practice encompasses poetry and performance and examines a history of the criminalisation and racialisation of light, darkness and the sun. Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist concerned with how imagination, technology and ecology intertwine. His works range from immersive VR ecosystems to mixed reality installations bridging physical and digital worlds that invite audiences to enter new ecological realities. Shawanda Corbett’s interdisciplinary practice addresses the question of what is a complete body, looking at the different cycles of a human’s life through cyborg theory. Corbett’s performances incorporate her ceramics practice, where the human body, architecture and dance leave their traces on her pottery vessels and surfaces. Kiko Kostadinov is a menswear designer whose work is driven by innovative pattern cutting, attention to detail and intricate garment construction, aiming to challenge and contribute to contemporary menswear aesthetics.
Park Nights 2019 continues into September with composer and playwright Klein, an artist whose neoteric vision has seen her quickly become one of the UK’s most intriguing producers and performers. Using collagist techniques Klein assembles recordings of her own vocals and instrumentation into unique soundscapes. Leilah Weinraub is an artist, director and co-founder of cult clothing brand Hood By Air. As a filmmaker, Weinraub has helped document unacknowledged tastemakers, particularly those belonging to queer, autonomous communities of colour whose creative output is often plundered by mass culture, but whose stories are rarely told on their own terms. 1010 Benja SL’s extraordinary voice, songwriting capabilities and seemingly free-associative writing are paired with a unique production technique that mark him as one of the most exciting artists and musicians to discover. Pioneering artist Cecilia Vicuña has been creating precarious works and Quipus since the mid-1960s, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard". A poet, artist, filmmaker and activist, her work addresses some of the pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenisation.
2019 marks the seventh year of the Park Nights partnership between the Serpentine and COS, the brand’s first as title sponsor, and the second year of annual support for Serpentine Galleries’ Family Programme. Across seven years of partnership, Serpentine Galleries and COS have collaborated on more than forty Park Nights, giving international artists, thinkers and practitioners a platform to devise unique encounters with live audiences, championing the Serpentine’s spirit of interdisciplinarity and experimentation inside the Serpentine Pavilion.
Park Nights showcases emerging and established talent and often marks the start of an ongoing conversation with an artist. Past participants including Sondra Perry, Etel Adnan and Helen Marten have gone on to create major solo exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries, while artists including Arthur Jafa, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marianna Simnett, Tamara Henderson, Megan Rooney, Ed Fornieles, Pedro Reyes and Victoria Sin have returned in further live and public programmes.
Park Nights 2019 will present eight evenings of new work, taking place in the Serpentine Pavilion, which this year is designed by award-winning architect Junya Ishigami, and for the first time this year, a specially conceived off-site Park Night at the hybrid COS space in Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross.
Park Nights 2019, from 5 July - 27 September, will present eight evenings of new work commissioned by the Serpentine from international artists and practitioners, each responding to Ishigami’s contemplative design. Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world, creating in the interior of the Pavilion an enclosed cave-like space and an imaginative space for live encounters.
COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019 begins in July with Precious Okoyomon, an artist and writer whose practice encompasses poetry and performance and examines a history of the criminalisation and racialisation of light, darkness and the sun. Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist concerned with how imagination, technology and ecology intertwine. His works range from immersive VR ecosystems to mixed reality installations bridging physical and digital worlds that invite audiences to enter new ecological realities. Shawanda Corbett’s interdisciplinary practice addresses the question of what is a complete body, looking at the different cycles of a human’s life through cyborg theory. Corbett’s performances incorporate her ceramics practice, where the human body, architecture and dance leave their traces on her pottery vessels and surfaces. Kiko Kostadinov is a menswear designer whose work is driven by innovative pattern cutting, attention to detail and intricate garment construction, aiming to challenge and contribute to contemporary menswear aesthetics.
Park Nights 2019 continues into September with composer and playwright Klein, an artist whose neoteric vision has seen her quickly become one of the UK’s most intriguing producers and performers. Using collagist techniques Klein assembles recordings of her own vocals and instrumentation into unique soundscapes. Leilah Weinraub is an artist, director and co-founder of cult clothing brand Hood By Air. As a filmmaker, Weinraub has helped document unacknowledged tastemakers, particularly those belonging to queer, autonomous communities of colour whose creative output is often plundered by mass culture, but whose stories are rarely told on their own terms. 1010 Benja SL’s extraordinary voice, songwriting capabilities and seemingly free-associative writing are paired with a unique production technique that mark him as one of the most exciting artists and musicians to discover. Pioneering artist Cecilia Vicuña has been creating precarious works and Quipus since the mid-1960s, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard". A poet, artist, filmmaker and activist, her work addresses some of the pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenisation.
2019 marks the seventh year of the Park Nights partnership between the Serpentine and COS, the brand’s first as title sponsor, and the second year of annual support for Serpentine Galleries’ Family Programme. Across seven years of partnership, Serpentine Galleries and COS have collaborated on more than forty Park Nights, giving international artists, thinkers and practitioners a platform to devise unique encounters with live audiences, championing the Serpentine’s spirit of interdisciplinarity and experimentation inside the Serpentine Pavilion.
Park Nights showcases emerging and established talent and often marks the start of an ongoing conversation with an artist. Past participants including Sondra Perry, Etel Adnan and Helen Marten have gone on to create major solo exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries, while artists including Arthur Jafa, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marianna Simnett, Tamara Henderson, Megan Rooney, Ed Fornieles, Pedro Reyes and Victoria Sin have returned in further live and public programmes.
COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019 is curated by Claude Adjil, Curator at Large; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Assistant Curator and Holly Shuttleworth, Producer, Live Programmes.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, and Yana Peel, CEO, Serpentine Galleries, said: “Park Nights welcomes some of the most exciting artists in the world to create radical new work, happenings that are genuine dialogues between the artists, the audience and the space. We are delighted that our friends at COS are supporting the Park Nights programme for a seventh year, allowing us to provide an essential platform for artists at every stage in their career to expand the possibilities of their art forms.”
Karin Gustafsson, COS Creative Director, said: “We are proud to support Park Nights for a seventh consecutive year, and also to bring an element of this pioneering series to our store in Coal Drops Yard for the first time. The interdisciplinary nature of the Park Nights programme offers a platform for creatives of all backgrounds to push the boundaries of their practice. At COS we always derive a huge amount of inspiration from these unique, one-off events, and can’t wait to discover what this year’s artists present over the summer.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, and Yana Peel, CEO, Serpentine Galleries, said: “Park Nights welcomes some of the most exciting artists in the world to create radical new work, happenings that are genuine dialogues between the artists, the audience and the space. We are delighted that our friends at COS are supporting the Park Nights programme for a seventh year, allowing us to provide an essential platform for artists at every stage in their career to expand the possibilities of their art forms.”
Karin Gustafsson, COS Creative Director, said: “We are proud to support Park Nights for a seventh consecutive year, and also to bring an element of this pioneering series to our store in Coal Drops Yard for the first time. The interdisciplinary nature of the Park Nights programme offers a platform for creatives of all backgrounds to push the boundaries of their practice. At COS we always derive a huge amount of inspiration from these unique, one-off events, and can’t wait to discover what this year’s artists present over the summer.”
LISTINGS
COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019
Fridays, 8pm (unless otherwise noted)
Serpentine Pavilion 2019
Tickets on sale Thursday 20 June at serpentinegalleries.org
Friday 5 July
Precious Okoyomon
Friday 12 July
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Friday 26 July
Shawanda Corbett
Friday 16 August
Kiko Kostadinov
Friday 6 September
Klein
Friday 13 September
Leilah Weinraub
Friday 20 September
1010 Benja SL
Friday 27 September
Cecilia Vicuña
Further details to follow for the off-site Park Night at COS, Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross.
#ParkNights2019
#COSxSerpentine
cosstores.com/serpentine
@cosstores
@serpentineuk
COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019
Fridays, 8pm (unless otherwise noted)
Serpentine Pavilion 2019
Tickets on sale Thursday 20 June at serpentinegalleries.org
Friday 5 July
Precious Okoyomon
Friday 12 July
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Friday 26 July
Shawanda Corbett
Friday 16 August
Kiko Kostadinov
Friday 6 September
Klein
Friday 13 September
Leilah Weinraub
Friday 20 September
1010 Benja SL
Friday 27 September
Cecilia Vicuña
Further details to follow for the off-site Park Night at COS, Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross.
#ParkNights2019
#COSxSerpentine
cosstores.com/serpentine
@cosstores
@serpentineuk
