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Research Colloquium
Colloquium / Spring 2026
11/03/2026

Andrea Francke on Unmanageable Relations:

Intimacy, Access, Care and the Refusal of Administrative Logic

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Eva Weinmayr
Femke Snelting
Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 14:00–17:00
Critical Media Lab Basel

In-person event with Andrea Francke, hosted by Eva Weinmayr.

Open to all. Join without registration.

Critical Media Lab
Freilager-Platz 1
4142 Basel/Münchenstein

Intimacy is messy, risky, and dangerous. It reminds us how permeable we are to others and how others are permeable to us. It forces us to accept that even when caring for each other, we are always hurting each other and being hurt. Intimacy is a refusal of clarity and forms of visibility that can be standardised and transformed into data or policy. It is always already negotiated between subjects, at a bodily scale, and thus it is illegible, unmanageable, and unsurveyable.

This colloquium proposes intimacy as a radical refusal of reformist ideas which incorporate practices such as care, access and decolonisation into administrative structures, while reifying top-down ideas of power, objectivity and knowledge practice. Guest speaker Andrea Francke (Lima, London) will draw on concepts such as access intimacy, group intimacy and the logic of care to explore the productive ways in which intimacy can allow us to critically re-engage with practices of access, intellectual property and care.

This colloquium builds on Francke’s prompt Intimacy vs. Property, which is published in Ecologies of Dissemination, PARSE Journal (2025). It was commissioned for the working session Revisit Reuse (2024), a collective revisit of the licence experiment Collective Conditions for Reuse (cc4r, 2020). From this gathering, the Collective Commitment to Reuse (cc2r, 2025) emerged, which proposes a shift from condition to commitment.

Guest

Andrea Francke is a Peruvian social practice artist based in London since 2007. Her 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, teaching and residencies, all undertaken collaboratively. Most of her projects are self-initiated and cover extended periods of time.

After years of hosting public events and making things visible, Andrea is now invested in invisibility, opacity, and developing administrative and pedagogical infrastructures as aesthetic strategies. She is currently working on the second season of “Ten Texts on…”, a podcast series with Matthew de Kersaint Girardeau that serves as a resource for exploring reading with art students. She is a Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts in London and a member of the TACO! and Gasworks Participation Programme Evaluation boards. Her work has been exhibited or supported by the Serpentine, The Showroom, Gasworks (all London), South London Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery Livepool, Grand Union Birmingham, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Bisagra (PE), Bar Project (SP), The New York Art Bookfair, Filip and 221a (CA), Truth is Concrete (AT), Rum46 (DK), Bergen Kunsthall (NW), and Munich Kunstverein (DE), among others.

For Preparation

We suggest preparing for Andrea’s input by listening and reading her prompt Intimacy vs. Property, published in Ecologies of Dissemination, issue #21, PARSE Journal. The prompt was developed for the work session Revisit Reuse, that took place in Brussels in 2024.