Andrea Machicao Francke

Biography

Andrea Francke
She/her, They/them

I’m a Peruvian social practice artist based in London since 2007. My practice focuses on developing structures for being and thinking together (with collaborators and colleagues, or through publications and public gatherings). These exchanges manifest through a regular practice of writing, publishing, public speaking, podcasting, exhibiting and residencies, all undertaken collaboratively. Most of my projects are self-initiated, collaborative and cover extended periods of time.

After years of hosting public events and making things visible, I’m currently invested in invisibility, transparency, and developing administrative and pedagogical infrastructures as aesthetic strategies. Current projects include Ten Texts on Sculpture, an ongoing podcast with Matthew de Kersaint Girardeau that functions as a resource to explore reading with art students; FR&ND, a platform to develop and distribute board games developed by artists with Francis Patrick-Brady; and Future of the Left (FOTL), a collaboration with Ross Jardine exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of administration and policy, through research and writing.

Selected past projects include The Piracy Project, a collaboration with Eva Weinmayr exploring the political and aesthetic potential created through book piracy, copying and other reproduction techniques; Invisible Spaces of Parenthood, a collaboration with Kim Dhillon focused on the politics of parenthood, motherhood, childcare, early years pedagogy and reproductive labour; and Evaluating the Gasworks Participation Programme, a FOTL project that designed an evaluation framework, and reporting mechanism, specific to the Gasworks Participation Programme.

I’m currently a Senior Lecturer at the Chelsea College of Arts BAFA. I’m also a member of the TACO! board, a founding member of the Gasworks Participation Programme Evaluation board adn a former memeber and deputy chair of the LUX board.. My work has been exhibited or supported by the Serpentine, The Showroom, Gasworks, South London Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery, Grand Union, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Bisagra (Lima-PE), Bar Project (Barcelona-SP), The New York Art Bookfair, Filip and 221a (Vancouver- CA), Truth is Concrete (Graz -AT), Rum46 (Arhus-DK), Bergen Kunsthall (NW), and Munich Kunstverein (DW), among others. My writing has been featured in Control Magazine, Parse Journal, Studies in the Maternal and Rhizome, among others. I’ve been invited to teach as a visiting artist or lecturer at the Lunga School (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), Cubbit Summer Programme, Kunstverein/ Akademieverein (Munich, DW), MA in Art and Social Practices at the CCA - California College of the Arts, BA Fine Arts at the Newcastle University, and the MA Fine Arts at the Rutland Academy/RUM 46 (Aarhus – DK), among others.