Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Serpentine Marathon series, this year’s Transformation Marathon invites artists, sociologists, anthropologists, writers, musicians, architects, scientists and philosophers to address cultural, political and physical shifts. The Transformation Marathon invokes the hidden knowledge of magic and alchemy. It investigates the strategies of cyborgs, magicians, parasites and storytellers to consider how to represent and effect change in the face of complexity. How can the arts and sciences reimagine aesthetics and politics? How are these individual and collective actions reflective of a precarious landscape? This year’s Marathon also addresses the history and transformation of the art institution, with a series of interventions devised by Tino Sehgal and Dorothea von Hantelmann.

Returning to the 24-hour format of the inaugural Interview Marathon in 2006, the Transformation Marathon takes place at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery on Saturday, October 17 from 10am to 10pm and continues from midnight until noon on Sunday, October 18 on the first-ever Serpentine Radio broadcast, accessible at radio.serpentinegalleries.org and presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, London. The event is live-streamed on the Serpentine’s YouTube channel.

Saturday 17 October
7 – 10pm
Keren Cytter, STALKER