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Posthumanism sounds abstract until you realise it's about something very practical: what kind of future do we want to build, and for whom? Alice Scope is a Ukrainian curator whose exhibitions turn speculative philosophy into lived experience - using technology not to answer those questions but to make them impossible to ignore.
Alice Scope is a Ukrainian curator and researcher currently working with Vellum LA and Serpentine Arts Technologies. She specialises in posthumanism and the ways technology might - or might not - help us build more just societies. Her exhibitions explore postgenderism, the limits of biological identity, and what happens when we push our imagination beyond the defaults inherited from previous centuries. She works across physical and digital exhibition contexts, with a consistent focus on the relationship between creative speculation and social change.
Alice Scope's work operates at the productive boundary between the philosophical and the material. Posthumanism is not a utopia - it's a set of questions about what we take for granted when we imagine the future. This conversation explores how those questions become art: how Scope designs exhibitions that invite audiences to encounter ideas about identity, technology, and justice in ways that are visceral rather than academic. It's also a conversation about the role of the curator in a moment when the relationship between humans and technology is changing faster than our frameworks for understanding it.
Posthumanism as curatorial framework
Scope uses posthumanism not as ideology but as a set of questions - about the body, about gender, about who counts as human. These questions structure exhibitions that resist easy answers while remaining emotionally accessible.
Technology as possibility space
Rather than treating technology as threatening or saving, Scope is interested in its potential as a material for imagining differently. The digital tools available to artists today create new possibilities for representing futures that weren't imaginable before.
Serpentine Arts Technologies as context
Working with Serpentine's arts technology programme places Scope at the intersection of major institutional practice and experimental digital work. This context shapes her thinking about scale, access, and what institutions can do that individuals cannot.
Creative speculation as political act
Imagining better worlds is not escapism - it's a form of resistance to the inevitability of existing ones. Scope's exhibitions model this by treating speculation as a serious intellectual and artistic mode.
Digital art at its most interesting asks questions that other media can't quite reach. Alice Scope's practice is an argument for collecting work that genuinely challenges your assumptions about what a future might look like - not just work that reflects the present in a new medium. This conversation will change how you think about which artists are doing something that matters.
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