Annalaura Alifuoco

• Bachelor of Arts
• Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University

What is the problem? Is it the pressures of global conflict, forced displacement, mass extinction, oceanic acidification, economic devastation, viral pandemic, environmental dissolution, academic disillusion? These ubiquitous phenomena inform a persistent state of emergency that confounds, arouses and magnifies. Its relentlessness is amplified by a...

This spotlight reflects on Endosymbiotic Love Calendar 2021, an art-meets-science project supported by Arts Council England and the Microbiological Society and completed in 2020. The project combined scientific experimentation, art-making, post-human ecology, and queer approaches through the format of a familiar domestic object: a wall calendar for...

Within the framework of performance, affects have largely been invoked to explain embodied visceral responses to texts. What I propose here instead is to introduce the dimension of affect as a matter of form (Brinkema [2014]. The Forms of the Affects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press). In other words, the formal composition of performance is itsel...

This article proposes to reanalyse the artistic and critical practice of performance through the deconstruction and remediation of its ‘virtual,’ unsighted potentials. It argues that the ontological distinction between material and immaterial representation can be dislodged by the proposition of an ontogenenic dimension of affective transmission an...

What happens when one time is inflected and infected with an ‘other’? What when the temporalities of pain, pleasure and desire intersperse and move closer, at the point of almost touching? Then we might come face to face with a temporality where (when?!) time is not linear and rational but connective and relational. Annalaura Alifuoco’s address lon...