In the contemporary context of environmental crises and degradation, certain habitats become unliveable, leading to the death of individuals, populations and species extinction. While bioscience emphasises interdependency and relationality as crucial characteristics of life shared by all organisms, Western cultural imaginaries tend to draw dividing lines between humans and nonhumans, particularly evident in the context ofdeath. On the one hand, death appears as a process common toall forms of life; on the other, as an event that distinguishes human from other organisms. Against this background, this paper explores how contemporary art—in particular, the series of worksThe Absence of Alice (2008–2011) by Australian new-media andbioartist Svenja Kratz—challenges the normative and human-exceptionalist concept of death. By employing queerfeminist biophilosophy as a strategy that focuses on relations, processes and transformations instead of ‘essences’, the paper examines the ways Kratz’s works deterritorialise the conventional concept ofdeath.