Making Nature, Making Energy, Making Humans: Two Exhibitions at the Wellcome Trust

Abstract

This article reviews the Wellcome Collection exhibitions ‘Making Nature: How We See Animals’ and ‘Electricity: The Spark of Life’. While the two exhibitions appear to have disparate topics—one exhibition speaks about our co-existence with animals, the other about energy futures—they speak to each other in thought-provoking ways around the questions: how are we human in these times, and what possible trajectories are available to us?

Keywords:

• energy
• animals
• posthuman
• consumption
• environmental futures
• museum

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.