The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, 2025

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is a major publication gathering work from over 100 contributors in the arts, humanities, and sciences. This collection, edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, explores animal, plant, fungal, and machine consciousness; interspecies communication; and more-than-human perspectives. Marking a significant milestone in Serpentine’s long-term research project of the same name—initiated in 2018—the publication brings together years of inquiry into non-human ways of knowing and being. The publication includes original conversations, essays, interviews, meditations, poems and artworks from a wide range of leading thinkers across disciplines.

The first book launch takes place at E-WERK Luckenwalde, Germany, on the 31st May 2025, as part of the festival’s sixth iteration, Love and Lament, presented by Schering Stiftung, Berlin. The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: Love and Lament focuses on intimacy and grief across species and beings, featuring talks, screenings, readings and performances by Claudia Rankine, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Jenna Sutela and many more.

As part of his long-term project, The Art Direction of the Noguchi Museum (2018-ongoing), artist Giles Round has been in residence with Serpentine’s General Ecology project. This included the art direction of every edition of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, inclusive of a suite of graphic identities developed with marbling techniques, as well as low-impact spatial design elements, including the lighting design for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants at EartH Hackney; a graphic suite of wayfinding panels for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: we have never been one at Ambika P3, Marylebone, as well as the design of the project’s publication - The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish.

Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos
Design by Giles Round
Photographs by Laila Kaletta

Published by Serpentine & Hatje Cantz
English
June 2025, 408 Pages
Paperback
190mm x 253mm
ISBN:978-3-7757-5575-7

Contributors: Andrew Adamatzky Yussef Agbo-Ola/Olaniyi Studio; Sophia Al-Maria; Allora & Calzadilla; Saelia Aparicio; Chloe Aridjis; Heather Barnett; Antoine Bertin; Lynne Boddy; Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Vivian Caccuri; Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela; Federico Campagna; Teresa Castro; Alex Cecchetti; Vint Cerf; Ted Chiang; Sean Cho A.; Nicola Clayton; Emanuele Coccia; Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen; The Coven Intelligence Program; Marisol de la Cadena; Michela de Mattei; Onome Ekeh; Cru Encarnação; James Fairhead; Adham Faramawy; Simone Forti; Claire Filmon; Rosalind Fowler; Peter Gabriel; Elaine Gan; Jay Gao; Sabine Hauert; Daisy Hildyard; Amy Hollywood; Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser); Tim Ingold; Derek Jarman; Alex Jordan; Karrabing Film Collective; Leah Kelly; Asim Khan; Kapwani Kiwanga; Dominique Knowles; Bettina Korek; Simone Kotva; Daisy Lafarge; Hannah Landecker; Yasmeen Lari; Long Litt Woon; Annea Lockwood; Thandi Loewenson; Miranda Lowe; Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe; Marcos Lutyens; Carlos Magdalena; Michael Marder; Alex McBratney; Natasha Myers; Nahum; Rasmus Nielsen/ SUPERFLEX; Hatis Noit; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Angelica Patterson; Lucia Pietroiusti; Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Maria Puig de la Bellacasa; Filipa Ramos; Asad Raza; Diana Reiss; Tabita Rezaire; Ben Rivers; Giles Round; Merlin Sheldrake; Kostas Stasinopoulos; Jenna Sutela; bones tan jones; Phoebe Tickell; Anaïs Tondeur & Germain Meulemans; Laurence Totelin; Anna L. Tsing; Oula A. Valkeapäa & Leena Valkeapäa; Sumayya Vally; Kim Walker; Chris Watson; Elvia Wilk; Rain Wu & Mariana Sanchez Salvador. 

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