Anastasia (A) Alevtin

Anastasia (A) Alevtin (they/them) reads and writes as an artist, theorist and editor who currently gardens on the windowsills. Their work inquires into fleeting gestures and stubborn practices of non-apparent subversion improvised against disabling corporeal normativities by chronically sick, queercrip, and migrant/migratised communities. With a background in Gender studies, specifically, tending to artful feminist theories of embodiment, and recently retraining in screenwriting, they tell small multimedia stories of corporeal brilliance. They are interested in sticky and silly affinities with words and their fragments, and in how bodies move texts. They imagine collaborations as doings-in-common, and they hold dear independent publishing and collective reading.

Alevtin's current project, Dormancy, Reseeding, Resistance (2024-ongoing), works across the Northern latitudes and engages with communal and backyard gardening, seed-saving practices and crip grandmothering in the inflamed contexts of anti-ableism and food in/security—specifically lived by chronically sick bodyminds. Inflammation, dormancy, garlic, blackcurrant, fleeting performative gestures, radio, purples, transgenerational labour and joy of anti-imperialist gardening are their companions.

Their work dwells in the collection of KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art and their friends' homes.