Amy Franceschini

Amy Franceschini is an artist and designer who is part of Futurefarmers — a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding us. Her work facilitates encounter, exchange and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the “certainties” of a given time or place where a work is situated.

If you could recommend 3 books to anyone, what would they be?

My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig

I recommend this to all readers wishing to know the work of Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin and Bataille. Through this book you can come in relation to their work through the marvelous lens of Michael Taussig's wander through the history and currents of gold and cocaine in Colombia and further into the veins of New York City. His read of commodity fetichism is graspable, memorable and contagious.

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi

I find this collection of fictious places authored by several people a treasure. It is interesting to see how people have imagined utopian or dystopian places in various contexts and the work by the author to collect and collate the stories in the form of a dictionary is wonderful.

Far Away Across the Sea by Toon Tellegen

It presents the simple complexities of life through short vignettes between animals in absurd situations. It reminds us to find joy in the small things in life.

What are you reading now?

Black Quantum Futurism - Space Time Collapse I: From the Congo to the Carolinas by Rasheedah Phillips and Dominique Matti

Whose reading list are you most curious about?

“The next book that you will write!”

— Amy Franceschini