Alice, Nien-pu, Ko
Alice Nien-pu Ko is a curator and writer based in New York whose practice explores how time-based media, contemporary myth, and disrupted archives shape historical memory, perception, and perspective of human consciousness through the possibility of contemporary art. Working across moving images, sound, and ritual, her curatorial practices foreground narrative entanglements that move between local cosmologies and global structures, rethinking the afterlives of history through experimental and alternative aesthetics.
Since 2013, Ko has curated exhibitions and public programs at museums, biennials, and independent platforms across Asia, Europe, and North America. Recent projects include Between Waves (The Brooklyn Rail, 2023–24) and A Dweller on Two Planets (Microscope Gallery, 2023), both tracing oceanic epistemologies, speculative media, and deep time. She is currently developing Remote Viewing, a research-based exhibition at MoNTUE, Taipei (2026), which explores how artists use experimental cinema to visualize altered perception, psychic states, and metaphysical consciousness—bridging ritual, neuroscience, and media history across cultural contexts.
At the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, she led and co-curated landmark exhibitions such as Tony Oursler: Black Box (2021), Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival (2021), and SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2019), co-presented with Mori Art Museum. Her solo exhibition, Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine and the Self (2018), was nominated for the 17th Taishin Arts Award and presented alongside Nude: Masterpieces from Tate.
Ko has participated in international residencies, including the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and Tokyo Arts and Space, and collaborated with institutions such as the Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. Her research and editorial work have contributed to cross-cultural dialogues on memory, spectral media, and decolonial aesthetics, with writing that engages artists including Dumb Type, Shigeko Kubota, Tony Oursler, Rashid Johnson, Angel Otero, Chen Chieh-jen, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Jane Jin Kaisen.