Starting from the traditional folk costumes known as “pacchiana,” which are original to the region of the artist’s grandmother in Calabria, her research investigates patriarchal conceptions of femininity and the politics of taste, fashion, and social class embedded within this term. Knitting together stories of femininity, classist aesthetic canons, and camp fashion, her installation explores these garments' emotional and aesthetic weight. It creates an archive of “girlie” ephemera and temporary communities focusing on Southern diaspora, experimental personal aesthetics, and autofiction.

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 to envision queer futures. After studying Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, Minervini co-founded Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love, an art festival to deconstruct the fascist imaginary of love, sex and gender identity. She is currently investigating the politics of taste, fashion and gender of “pakkiana,” Calabrian folk dresses, focusing on the idea of “undressing capitalism” as an intersectional transfeminist figure.

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Umetničina raziskava, ki se začenja s tradicionalnimi ljudskimi nošami, imenovanimi »pacchiana«, izvirajočimi iz pokrajine njene babice v Kalabriji, preučuje patriarhalne predstave o ženskosti ter politike okusa, mode in družbenega razreda, vgrajene v ta izraz. Instalacija, ki povezuje zgodbe o ženskosti, kanone klasične estetike in kempovsko modo, preučuje čustveno in estetsko težo teh oblačil ter ustvarja arhiv »dekliških« efemer in začasnih skupnosti s poudarkom na južni diaspori, eksperimentalni osebni estetiki in avtofikciji.

Alice Minervini, aka pakkiana, je umetnica in pisateljica, živi med Italijo in Londonom. Njena praksa se odvija kot niz sodelovanj, ki raziskujejo presečišča med avtofikcijo, novimi tehnologijami in erotiko kot načini za zamišljanje kvir prihodnosti. Minervini je po študiju vizualnih kultur na Univerzi Goldsmiths soustanovila Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love, umetniški festival za dekonstrukcijo fašističnih podob ljubezni, seksualnosti in spolnih identitet. Trenutno raziskuje politiko okusa, mode in spola »pakkiane«, kalabrijskih ljudskih oblek, pri čemer se osredotoča na idejo »slačenja kapitalizma« kot intersekcijske transfeministične figure.