Current Residents Anastasia (A) Alevtin
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Anastasia (A) Alevtin, “She spent hours each day picking up fragments” (a live performance documentation), Light-Harvesting Complex, 2025. Photo by Rowan Lear
Anastasia (A) Alevtin reads-writes as an artist and theorist who gardens in their friends’ allotments. Their work inquires into fleeting doings-in-common and stubborn practices of non-apparent subversion improvised against disabling corporeal normativities by some queercrip and migratised communities. With a background in Gender studies, tending to artful feminist theories of embodiment, and recently retraining in screenwriting, they are curious about small stories of quotidian affects, sticky affinities with words and their fragments and how bodies move texts. They conspire with brilliant corporeal ambivalence and queercrip sensorium to storytell and wave performative gestures. They hold dear independent publishing and collective reading.
I will follow mutually transformative politico-material relations between corporeal inflammation that zigzags through my chronically sick tissues and sore currents of (what I tentatively conceptualise as) social inflammation to search for some anti-inflammatory “activist affordances” (after Arseli Dokumacı). I will draft and rehearse a radio play that notices these smallest of gestures subversively improvised by some chronically sick bodyminds and develop an essay (film) that looks for purple-hued poetics of one’s relationship with bruising medical-industrial complex and chronic pain. Inflammation, dormancy, garlic, blackcurrant, fleeting performative gestures, radio, purples, transgenerational labour and joy of anti-imperialist gardening will be my companions.