Alice Minervini aka pakkiana is an artist and writer based between Italy and London. Her practice unfolds as a series of collaborations that explore the intersections between autofiction, new technologies and erotism as ways of envisioning queer futures.

After studying Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, Alice co-founded Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love, a performance art festival that took place in an abandoned fascist building as an attempt to deconstruct the impacts of fascism on the contemporary imaginary of love, sex and gender identity.

Her first publication ‘Comizi d’Emigrazione’, a collection of love letters on the intersections of queer love, sentimentalism and emigration, was part of exhibitions and events internationally, including Palais De Tokyo, Paris, Reference Points, London and Printed Matters, New York.   

Alice works as independent researcher and curator collaborating with transdisciplinary artists, from clubbing nights to artists-run spaces and contemporary art magazines such as the music label light-years founded by Caterina Barbieri, Casa Cicca Museum, Milan and Shmorévaz, Paris.

Currently, Alice is researching the politics of taste, fashion and gender embedded in the term ‘pacchiana’, a folk dress from Calabria, focusing on ‘undressing capitalism’ and reclaiming the pakkiana as an intersectional feminist figure.