Alzafari holds a BA from the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in Damascus, where he first sensed theatre not on a stage but between old city walls and markets: where bargaining is a performance, and alleyways are scenographies. He later completed an MA at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (HiØF, Fredrikstad). These formative experiences shaped what he terms "scenography of remonstration"an approach that mutates spatial strategies through tactical interventions, playing with power relations in theatre and public life.
His scenographic credits include work for Panta Rei Danseteater (Oslofjorden danser, 2021–2022), Mia Habib, Carl Joseph Aquilizan (Siyo), and Nils Henrik Asheim's Orgelnatt (video art, Oslo Cathedral, 2025), as well as Suzanne Ciani & 50 år NSEM at Ultima Extra. His intervention-based practice encompasses Head to Head (Zurich and Oslo), Write or Be Written Off (Balaguer, Catalonia), Queue Machines (Prague Quadrennial, 2019), Human Animals (Vega Scene, 2024), and The Living Archive (2023). He exhibited Words (كلمات) (2021) at Interkulturelt Museum and has designed exhibitions for Karen Kipphoff and Ayman Alazraq.
Alzafari is co-founder of artist2artist.no, a digital residency network fostering international artistic exchange, and of PalNor, a Palestinian-Norwegian archive unit dedicated to preserving community interactions and collective memory.
Liam is a recipient of the Statens arbeidsstipend for young/emerging artists, part of Talent Norge’s Artex programme (2026–2027), and was featured in Dagsavisen (April 2026). He did not choose a career in art; art sought a career in him. What he looks forward to is not a fixed point but a state in which he can continue telling stories, stories tied to reality, to his own reality, that is full of fiction, never short of imagination or borders that need to be crossed.
