In an age when scientists can create, manipulate, alter and sustain life to an extent once unimaginable, The New Immortals explores man’s ongoing quest for immortality, from the historic search for eternal life through religion, alchemy, magic and medicine, to the modern miracles of contemporary biomedical science.

I've been asking: Could indefinite human life become a reality? Would we really want to live forever? and What difference would it make if we never died?

Through conversations with scientists, clinicians, philosophers, ethicists, artists, curators and the public, Alder explores notions of life and death, mortality and immortality and the way we think about these ideas in our new age of scientific miracles.

The project culminates in an exhibition of work by ten artists brought together in an exhibition I curated at Phoenix Brighton in 2016.

  • Contexts: Curatorial
  • Tags: exhibition, installation, printmaking, video, photography, life, death, science, immortality, mortality