I am an artist, designer and researcher. My professional practice can be mostly situated within the field of visual communication and graphic design. My research and output are concerned with the materiality and performativity of language. I currently work with workshop-based formats, using performance, theatre, print and video. I also work as an Associate Lecturer in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design and Kingston School of Art. I am always keen to talk, about projects and practice – you can email me at info [at] alessiaarcuri.com
Research, practice and teaching
Body Language, workshop and performance series (2025)
[Upcoming]
What
Q, performance (2024) with Orientale Sarda, presented at Voila Festival
Concept and costume: Sara Svati. Devising, research and performance design: Sara Svati and Alessia Arcuri.
With support from Alvaro Vidal, Eiv Krystal.
Design: Alessia Arcuri
Autocoscienza Writing Group, collective (2022 – ongoing)
Working with and promoting the work of Italian feminist and writer Lea Melandri, the collective explores experiential writing as a practice of autocoscienza (consciousness raising) using group readings and writing as a tool for collective sharing, analysis and care.
DRAMA, workshop series
(2021–2023) with John Philip Sage
Non-virtuoso exploration of how text can be activated, and its reception affected, through voice, sound, movement, space and collectivity.
Somatic Publishing (2023) Kingston School of Art, with John Philip Sage
Five weeks module focusing on the relationship between interpretative strategies, performance and performativity, as well as publishing and embodied form of knowledge production and dissemination.
Evening Class, collective
(2018–2021)
Collective experimenting with self-organised
education and design practice, through public
workshops, talks and debates, reading groups, radio broadcasting, performances, walks, and publishing. Through these activities, we have worked on developing a curriculum of both theory and practice.
Labour, Practice, Production, Reproduction
(ongoing)
I am interested in the complexities of precarious work for cognitive workers operating in the creative industries. I use post-workerist frameworks to understand the status of UK creative industries – vulnerabilities, limits and possibilities for design practitioners.