Futur.Shock x Serpentine - States of Love and Collapse

26.02.2026. | 19:00 - 01:00

Futur.Shock x Serpentine- States of Love and Collapse

Love often begins with a kind of collapse, when our boundaries, fears and dreams shift from the personal to the collective. In spaces that allow this surrender, where the self loosens into relation with others, love emerges as an ethic of commitment, reciprocity, and collective responsibility.

Within feminist, queer and decolonial thought, love as a practice demands profound reorientations of relation and the distribution of visibility. To love and to collapse becomes a methodology for rethinking institutions, reconfiguring subjectivities, and imagining new social forms. States of Love and Collapse brings together artists, filmmakers, musicians and DJs to explore practices that embrace incompleteness, desire, failure, and experimentation as positions that orient us in relation to a world in flux.

When collapse becomes the condition, love becomes the method, and the dancefloor or stage becomes the testing ground. In the ruins of the present, through dissolution and collective rupture, what falls apart can be rebuilt, with love.

With Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, JJ Pálka Johnson, Yen-Ching Lin, Carlos Motta, Shahryar Nashat, Louiza Ntourou-Orlof, Alexandros Pissourios, Yorgos Prinos, James Richards, Space Afrika, TAAHLIA and Jeph Vanger.

Curated and produced by Kostas Stasinopoulos, Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine, Karolina Magnusson Murray, Head of Contemporary Art Programming, FOLD and Isobel Peyton-Jones, Producer, Serpentine.

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