The Process: How to authentically document your creative community?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DJ and producer, Tayo Papoola, explores how the ground-breaking photography of Jennie Baptiste docu...
The Process: How does an object become erotic?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special interview edition of the Process, artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen unpacks the backgro...
The Process: Why did the British build a hedge across India?
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And how did it manage to disappear with barely a trace? Artists Himali Singh Soin and David Soin ...
Our Future | Soil: Common Ground Podcast
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Future is tied to the future of our soil. Our decisions as to how we care for and use it matter....
Our History | SOIL: COMMON GROUND
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the history of human making springs from the soil. Cuneiform, the earliest form of writing, ...
Our Beginning | SOIL: COMMON GROUND
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our entire existence is dependent on our relationship with soil. As awareness builds of the enormity...
SOIL: Common Ground
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Soil is unsung, and largely hidden from view. What if we were to put it in the foreground? To think...
The Process: More Than a Space - The Club in Black Queer History
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why has the club been so pivotal to the history of black queer placemaking? For artist and filmm...
The Process: Episode 16 Trailer - What is the legacy of the 2011 riots?
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What one site in Croydon can tell us about the biggest moment of civil unrest in Britain in a gener...
The Process: What is the legacy of the 2011 riots?
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What one site in Croydon can tell us about the biggest moment of civil unrest in Britain in a gener...
The Process: The Darker Side of Cute with Sean-Kierre Lyons
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can cuteness be used to sugar coat difficult messages? In this episode we join another artis...
The Process: FELT CUTE, MIGHT SHAPESHIFT LATER with Hannah Diamond
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Diamond reflects on the transformative powers of cute Cute aesthetics have exploded into p...
Not Strictly Speaking: The Disembodied Voice with Prem Sahib and Felicia Atkinson
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to use the voice of others within a performance, text or recording? In this episod...
Not Strictly Speaking: The Voice as Resistance with Vivienne Griffin and Helen Cammock
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The communal voice has a long history within the resistance movement, from African American spiritua...
Not Strictly Speaking: The Voice is the Instrument with Elaine Mitchener & Joan La Barbara
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The voice is something we all share and yet rarely do we explore the full range of our instrument. A...
Not Strictly Speaking: Series Trailer
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A three-part podcast series, released 20-22 March 2024, exploring different manifestations of the vo...
The Process: Is animal breeding a form of sculpture? | Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artists Revival Cohen & Tuur Van Balen explore how humans have transformed the animals that we l...
The Process: Is Failure More Productive Than Success? | Tom Staples, Makerversity
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The road to success is paved with inspirational quotes about failure. But could failure be more pr...
The Process: The Black British Renaissance with Andrew Ibi, Jazzie B & Martine Rose
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tracing the legacy of Black British fashion with Andrew Ibi, Jazzie B & Martine Rose. The late...
Soft Life: The Earth
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if the way we're approaching the crisis is part of the crisis? We look at the effect our endle...
Soft Life: The Body
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can the soft body challenge social hierarchies? We turn our gaze towards the soft life of the...
Soft Life: Time
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make time free? We contemplate different ways of experiencing time beyond the linear, w...
Soft Life: Work
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our ways of working aren’t working. How can art offer new ways of being outside of the values of ...
Soft Life: Experiments In New Ways of Being
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new limited series for the Somerset House Podcast Soft Life is part of a growing number of move...
The Process: Geometry for Aliens
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Leila Dear explores whether geometry could be a universal language What do our attempts t...
The Process: Slimy Worlds & Quantum Listening
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The artist Libby Heaney spent many years as a quantum physicist researching the concept of quantum e...
S2 Ep2: The Process: Why is A.I. So Secretive?
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Film maker Morgan Quaintance is interested in what AI can teach us about being human. For his commis...
The Process: Living with Ghosts
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Bernholtz, aka Gazelle Twin, has had paranormal experiences since her early childhood. Eve...
Trailer: The Process Series 2
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The creative process is inspired by worlds beyond itself. The Somerset House podcast series 'The P...
S1: Trailer: Welcome to the Echoic Archive
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
S1 Ep1: Echoic Archive: African Filmmakers in The Diaspora Underground
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many African Filmmakers, both on the continent and in the diaspora, have been using the medium to co...
S1 Ep2: Echoic Archive: Creative Coding & Archive In The Metaverse
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Questions and complications of the metaverse are broken down by artist collective Keiken, whose cros...
S1 Ep3: Echoic Archive: Collected Materials, Mythology and Archiving for Climate Change
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Weyland sits down with Filipino artist Leeroy New who was commissioned to create the Earth Day 2022 ...
S1 Ep4: Echoic Archive: Dark Fecundity + Archiving For The Distant Future
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Weyland hops on an audio space adventure to Andromeda with Somerset House Studios artist and writer ...
The Process: Healing through skating
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roller skating is having a moment. Instagram videos of roller skaters doing synchronised dances we...
S1 Ep5: The Process: Reclaiming the Commons
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Col Self grew up as a child playing on the sites of the new age traveller community in the 1990s. A...
The Process: Taking Fun Seriously
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Somerset House Studios resident Anna Meredith is a composer who takes writing playful music seriousl...
The Process: Language of Resistance
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
‘How do you imagine yourself as anything other than what you are told you are?’ Shiraz Bay...
The Process: What is Financial Astrology?
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is Financial Astrology? Somerset House Studios artist Gary Zhexi Zhang is interested in exp...
The Process: Breaking The Rules
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking the Rules featuring Andy Holden & Mark McGowan ‘The power of performance lies in it...
Trailer - The Process | Somerset House Podcast
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A brand new six-part podcast series, The Process, takes listeners behind the scenes with some of to...
Trailer | Coping Mechanisms
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking to familiar faces, including Carol Morley, Jarvis Cocker, Nabihah Iqbal, Noel Fielding and ...
S1 Ep4: The Avoidance of Boredom | Coping Mechanisms
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode Iain and Jane talk to the stand-up comedian and radio broadcaster Robin Ince ab...
S1 Ep3: Connected in Time | Coping Mechanisms
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring whether we can really have a collective experience online, our hosts meet with Carol Morle...
S1 Ep2: Life Drawing's A Killer | Coping Mechanisms
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it so many of us paint, draw or in some way turn to creativity in tough times? When we’re t...
S1 Ep1: Make Your Own Entertainment | Coping Mechanisms
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we cope when our world is unexpectedly turned upside down? When lockdown was imposed on t...
S7 Ep5: Peel Back The Curtain | 24/7
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slipping between the real and the imaginary. Filmmaker Liam Young uncovers the concept behind his f...
S7 Ep4: Sleep Well, Sweet Dreams | 24/7
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How did you sleep last night? Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and writer Stuart Evers paint a...
S7 Ep3: Dopamine Detox & Resisting Surveillance | 24/7
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How many times have you looked at your phone today? Artist Mat Collishaw draws parallels between beh...
S7 Ep2: Artificial Birdsong and a Virtual Choir | 24/7
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Refresh, reflect, reset... Artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg invites you to sit and listen to the dawn...
S7 Ep1: More, More, More | 24/7
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Benjamin Grosser explores the notion of ‘more’ in a 24/7 world. The 24/7 podcast invite...
S6 Ep5: Mothership | Get Up, Stand Up Now
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Calling planet earth! Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE, acclaimed saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, fashion d...
S6 Ep4: Imaginary Landscapes | Get Up, Stand Up Now
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
#4 Imaginary Landscapes What is the place of Black diasporic art in Britain today? How do artists us...
S6 Ep3: Masquerade | Get Up, Stand Up Now
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
#3 Masquerade Artists Zoe Bedeaux and Rhea Storr, writer Margaret Busby and Get Up, Stand Up Now cur...
S6 Ep2: Dream to Change the World | Get Up, Stand Up Now
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
#2 Dream to Change the World How do we imagine a better future? How do we imagine equality and how...
S6 Ep1: Motherland | Get Up, Stand Up Now
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
#1 Motherland Legendary musician Dennis Bovell, writer Margaret Busby, and photographer Normski come...
Trailer | Get Up, Stand Up Now Podcast
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A taster of the Get Up, Stand Up Now podcast series, celebrating generations of black creative pione...
S5 Ep1: Khaos Spirit by Serena Korda | Earth Day Season 2019
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A new, site-responsive audio work exploring society’s relationship with the natural elements from ...
S4 Ep2: London Design Biennale 2018: Emotional States
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The second iteration the London Design Biennale brings the best in global design thinking to Somerse...
S4 Ep1: Film4 Summer Screen: Interview with Bart Layton, writer/director of American Animals
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with writer/director Bart Layton ahead of the UK premiere of American Animals, a true-...
S3 Ep2: PROCESS! Evolving Technologies
21 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our rapidly evolving media landscape, how are projects that might previously have been confined t...
S3 Ep1: PROCESS! Interdependent Publishing
21 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A panel discussion featuring contemporary publishing practices that embrace interdependent approache...
S1 Ep21: Print | Marsha Rowe - Spare Rib
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Marsha Rowe, Co-Founder of Spare Rib. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset House explor...
S1 Ep20: Print | Tony Elliott - Time Out
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Tony Elliott, Founder of Time Out. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset House explor...
S1 Ep19: Print | Rhona Ezuma - Thiiird
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Rhona Ezuma, Editor in Chief of Thiiird. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset House exp...
S1 Ep18: Print | Elisabeth Krohn - Sabat
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Elisabeth Krohn, Editor and Creative Director of Sabat Magazine
S1 Ep17: Print | Alpa Depani - ROMP
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Alpa Depani, Editor of ROMP. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset House explores the hi...
S1 Ep16: Print | Nick Logan - The Face
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Nick Logan, Founder of The Face. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset House explores th...
S1 Ep15: Print | Ian Gabb (Letterpress Monster) - Royal College of Art
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Ian Gabb aka Letterpress Monster and the letterpress technician for Royal College of ...
S1 Ep14: Print | John L. Walters - Eye
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with John L. Walters, Editor of Eye magazine. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset House ...
S1 Ep13: Print | Pat Randle - Double Dagger
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Pat Randle, Co-Founder of Double Dagger magazine. Print! Tearing it Up at Somers...
S1 Ep12: Print | Sharan Dhaliwal - Burnt Roti
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Sharan Dhaliwal, Editor in Chief of Burnt Roti. Print! Tearing it Up at Somerset...
S1 Ep11: Perfume Pioneers: The Future of Fragrance
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Perfume is becoming a different kind of cultural experience . In this podcast episode, practitioners...
S1 Ep10: Perfume Pioneers: Killian Wells
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The olfactory rebel. Los Angeles-based Killian Wells, pop musician turned perfumer turned millennial...
S1 Ep9: Perfume Pioneers: Bertrand Duchaufour
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bertrand Duchaufour, creator of Avignon, is one of the most prolific and respected perfumers within ...
S1 Ep8: Perfume Pioneers: Andy Tauer
19 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Perfumer Andy Tauer is a hobbyist turned professional, inspiring many to try their hand at perfumery...
S1 Ep7: Perfume Pioneers: Lyn Harris
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lyn Harris has brought a new relaxed confidence to British perfumery, promoting the role of natural ...
S1 Ep6: Perfume Pioneers: David Seth Moltz
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Free from European perfumery heritage, musician and self-taught perfumer David Seth Moltz is at the ...
S1 Ep5: Perfume Pioneers: Daniela Andrier
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Daniela Andrier's perfumery is about evolution, not revolution. Her creation Purple Rain for Prada O...
S1 Ep4: Perfume Pioneers: Antoine Lie
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Antoine Lie talks about love and bodily fluids as he introduces the concept behind Sécretions Magni...
S1 Ep3: Perfume Pioneers: Geza Schoen
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The latest Perfume Pioneers podcasts features German entrepreneur Geza Schoen who introduces his elu...
S1 Ep2: Perfume Pioneers: Mark Buxton
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Buxton's Comme des Garçons 2 changed our perceptions of what perfume could be. In the first ep...
S1 Ep1: Perfume: An introduction
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to Perfume: a sensory journey through contemporary scent, at Somerset House, 21 Jun ...