Alex Wilk works as an independent researcher and has professional experience in arts publishing. She is a co-founder and editor of the online visual culture journal Anima Loci (2019-present). She also works as a research assistant for the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and previously for the designer Cecil Balmond. Alex’s personal research takes visual and textual formats. She has taken part in art residency programmes, exhibitions and has published articles. Underpinning her interests is an exploration of the cultural construction of nature, voice and the subject from posthumanist and feminist perspectives. She lives between London and Verona and holds a BA in Art and Visual Culture (Bristol UWE) and an MA in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Affiliation: Independent researcher
Research interests: Alex is currently researching key contemporary sound and visual artworks that challenge the anthropocentric paradigm of western culture. The works she identifies are connected by their embrace of the latest scientific research that increasingly recognises plants and other life forms as intelligent, complex actors. Be they shrub, tree or entire ecosystem, nonhumans are here no longer passive objects to be represented, but active, vocal agents. In the context of our environmental crisis, these artworks hold the possibility to engender new modes of relation with other species and to rethink the question of the Other, at a point when transformation is desperately needed.
