Alisha Piercy is a writer and artist in Montréal. She is the author of stories-in-verse, novels, and texts in collaboration with artists, and is co-founder of Your Lips to Mine Press: a small, independent press, with Benny Nemerov. Her interdisciplinary practice explores large-scale performative drawing installations, writing fiction, and film. Seeking to re-dream alternate futures, her worlding practices traverse the material auras of interspecies interdependencies, drawing on critical theory in phenomenology, hauntology, other-than-human ontologies, planetary and speculative fabulations. Currently a PhD student in the Queen’s University Cultural Studies Department, Piercy holds a BA in Literature (McGill University), an MFA (Concordia University) and an MA in Art Conservation (Queen’s University). Her dissertation asks, How can ‘speculative haunting’ as an embodied, creative force and decolonial art practice? Piercy is the Communications Officer for the International Council of Design, a non-governmental organization that advocates for value, ethics and policymaking in social design.
Alisha Piercy is a Montréal-based author, artist and paintings conservator. Her practice ranges from bookworks to the writing of novellas, to in-situ performative drawing and raft installations. Her projects explore questions of alienation, psychological geographies, the fantasy of “being elsewhere,” and the tension between exile and freedom as it plays out in a diversity of islanded experiences. Her multi-disciplinary project You have hair like flags~(2010), a survivalist story, was inspired by the slogan Barcelona or Death! from a Senegalese pop song about the masses of young African men who attempt to float towards mainland Europe. The project included a novella, a thirty-day-long wall drawing performance in Montréal, and an installation of burning rafts set off the coast of Reykjavik, Iceland.
Piercy is a co-founder of Your Lips to Mine Press with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay: a small, independent press. Her first book, two novellas AURICLE / ICEBREAKER (2010), were published as part of the reversible series by Conundrum Press. Her second work of fiction, You have hair like flags~ (Your Lips to Mine Press, 2010) won the bpNichol Chapbook Award for 2010. In 2011, Piercy published with The Coming Envelope (BookThug), participated in The Montréal Literary Death Match, and performed on the mainstage at The Scream Literary Festival.
Piercy is a co-founder of Your Lips to Mine Press with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay: a small, independent press. Her first book, two novellas AURICLE / ICEBREAKER (2010), were published as part of the reversible series by Conundrum Press. Her second work of fiction, You have hair like flags~ (Your Lips to Mine Press, 2010) won the bpNichol Chapbook Award for 2010. In 2011, Piercy published with The Coming Envelope (BookThug), participated in The Montréal Literary Death Match, and performed on the mainstage at The Scream Literary Festival.
Alisha Piercy is a Montréal-based author,
artist and paintings conservator. CV + BIO
artist and paintings conservator. CV + BIO