Assunta Alegiani
I’m a freelance writer and assistant director in public radio, a sometimes comics researcher and maker, and make films and audiovisual installations as part of the duo open.circuit. Based in Berlin.
I studied Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto (B.A.) and Applied Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (M.A.).
Publications
- Article Panel by Panel: Considering Life on the Autism Spectrum Through Making An Auto/Biographical Comic in Closure #9 – Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung, March 2023
Talks
- Moderation of Panel Talk "Linien ausradieren – einen Weg zeichnen" about Mental Health, Neurodiversity and Dis/Ability in Comics Making at Snail Eye comic festival in Leipzig, June 2024
- Presentation of talk Begehrende Körper: Intimität und Sexualität in Darstellungen von Dis/ability im Comic at the Symposium Race, Class, Gender & Beyond – Intersektionale Ansätze der Comicforschung, October 2021
- Presentation of my comic Entgleiten in the webinar Creative Research in Graphic Medicine by the Universidade Fernando Pessoa, July 2020
- Presentation of my master's thesis Drawing Out the Invisible Difference: Autism Spectrum Disorder in Auto/Biographical and Educational Comics to the Pathographics research group at Freie Universität Berlin, December 2019
Festivals and Exhibitions
- Installation All to Sand Returns at Eigenheim, Weimar, as part of the xCoAx 2023 group exhibition
- Screening of No Matter Where You Go There You Are at Porto Post Doc Film & Media Festival, 2016
- Screening of No Matter Where You Go There You Are at NADA Festival, Porto, 2016
- Screening of No Matter Where You Go There You Are at Oslo Flaneur Festival, 2016
- Installations No Matter Where You Go You Are Here as part of the group exhibition at AV Espaço Montepio, Porto, 2016