The Somerset House Podcast, shaped and sculpted by artists, explores original cultural ideas which connect listeners to the creative process. Each series goes behind the scenes at Somerset House to uncover the stories explored through our programme and creative community. As the home of cultural innovators, Somerset House connects creativity and the artist with wider society to produce unexpected outcomes and unexplored futures, intensifying creativity and multiplying opportunity to drive artistic and social innovation.
Latest episodes
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46 min
The Process: What does it mean to perform with technology today?
For the last decade, Somerset House Studios has been home to work which has explored and challenged the boundaries of emerging technology. As it approaches its tenth anniversary, d…
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42 min
Archive: Is a Feminist Alexa Possible?
To mark Somerset House Studios’ 10th birthday month, we revisit an archive episode of the Studios podcast, which featured audio works and one-off series from the artistic community…
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27 min
Maximum Break: Who Gets To Be An Artist?
At the heart of the creative community at Somerset House is Somerset House Studios, where up to 70 artists are resident at any one time. Deep in the vaults of the building, movemen…
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37 min
The Process Archive: Pop devotion meets cute
The Process: Archive invites artists from our cultural programme and artist community to reflect on different works from the sonic archives and podcasts of Somerset House – from ta…
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18 min
The Process: How To Listen in a World of Noise
From alternative modes of listening to live performance as a form of time travel, the Black political economy of music and the platform conditions of distribution, musician, curato…
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25 min
The Process: The Sea Snake is Listening
Artist Dana-Fiona Armour reveals what the sea snake knows about our changing oceans – and what it’s telling us about the climate emergency. It’s animals like the sea snake – a vita…
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16 min
The Process Archive: Experimenting with Sound and the Voice
For the first in The Process Archive sub-series we revisit three works from Assembly, Somerset House Studios experimental sound and music series, with artists Elaine Mitchener, Bea…
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31 min
The Process: Are drums a time-travelling device?
Somerset House Studios artist Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom reimagines the drums as a time-travelling device across continent, history, and bodies.A visual artist who has been learnin…
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25 min
The Process: What happens when performance meets everyday activism?
Artist duo Cooking Sections blur the lines between art and activism with their installation, The Ministry of Sewers. The Ministry of Sewers is an exhibit by artist duo Cooking Sect…
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34 min
The Process: How to authentically document your creative community?
DJ and producer, Tayo Papoola, explores how the ground-breaking photography of Jennie Baptiste documented a generation of Black British creatives. Rhythm and Roots – Jennie Baptist…
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20 min
The Process: How does an object become erotic?
In this special interview edition of the Process, artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen unpacks the background to her digital commission Grumpy. Sidsel Meineche Hansen is a Danish artist w…
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30 min
The Process: Why did the British build a hedge across India?
And how did it manage to disappear with barely a trace? Artists Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser (Hylozoic/Desires) go on a journey through the archives to unearth the sto…
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36 min
Our Future | Soil: Common Ground Podcast
Our Future is tied to the future of our soil. Our decisions as to how we care for and use it matter. Soil teaches us that cycles are ongoing, and even in decline every day offers u…
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35 min
Our History | SOIL: COMMON GROUND
Much of the history of human making springs from the soil. Cuneiform, the earliest form of writing, was engraved into clay; paint pigments come from minerals in the soil; and much…
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31 min
Our Beginning | SOIL: COMMON GROUND
Our entire existence is dependent on our relationship with soil. As awareness builds of the enormity of the ecological crisis that we are facing, a growing number of artists are en…
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1 min
SOIL: Common Ground
Soil is unsung, and largely hidden from view. What if we were to put it in the foreground? To think of it as a collaborator? Across three episodes, presenter and Somerset House Stu…
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29 min
The Process: More Than a Space - The Club in Black Queer History
Why has the club been so pivotal to the history of black queer placemaking? For artist and filmmaker Topher Campbell, growing up as a Black queer man in 1980s and 90s Britain, the…
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45 sec
The Process: Episode 16 Trailer - What is the legacy of the 2011 riots?
What one site in Croydon can tell us about the biggest moment of civil unrest in Britain in a generation.Listen to the full episode: Apple | Spotify Artist Imran Perretta was in hi…
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34 min
The Process: What is the legacy of the 2011 riots?
What one site in Croydon can tell us about the biggest moment of civil unrest in Britain in a generation.Artist Imran Perretta was in his early 20s when the riots began in 2011. Wh…
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27 min
The Process: The Darker Side of Cute with Sean-Kierre Lyons
How can cuteness be used to sugar coat difficult messages? In this episode we join another artist commissioned for the Somerset House exhibition CUTE, Brooklyn based Sean-Kierre Ly…