Alice Bucknell

Alice Bucknell’s practice uses game engines and speculative fiction to investigate the intricate relationships between architecture, ecology, magic, and forms of intelligence that extend beyond the human and the mechanical. Their work challenges conventional boundaries, blending natural and synthetic, human and environment, and exploring the fluidity between self and world. Bucknell is an artist and writer who delves into the limitations of scientific knowledge and systems thinking, embracing the strange possibilities that emerge through play and ecological engagement. Their projects dissolve binaries, inviting audiences to reconsider familiar categories within a broader, interconnected framework. In a world dominated by uncertainty and complexity, Bucknell navigates the tangled realities of our time without retreating into oversimplification or techno-utopian promises. Instead, their work embraces speculation, storytelling, and the envisioning of alternative futures. While acknowledging the ecological damage and extractive forces shaping our world, Bucknell highlights the generative potential of speculative fictions and multispecies landscapes, illustrating how new, unexpected forms of life and understanding can arise amid crisis. ...