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25/6/2012

Andrea Francke and Annette Krauss

The Showroom, London

The Showroom presents two newly commissioned projects that address questions of (in)visibility in relation to how social structures and conditions are experienced in everyday life and made visible, or not, and why this is so. Both are produced within Communal Knowledge – an ongoing programme of artists’ commissions that involve collaborative research and knowledge-exchange within The Showroom’s locality, the Church Street neighbourhood.

Andrea Francke's Invisible spaces of parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future explores issues surrounding childcare in collaboration with local nurseries, childminders, children's centres and parent groups, and looks for new models and possibilities. This includes setting up a workshop in The Showroom’s gallery during the exhibition for visitors and workshop participants to test out DIY designs for furniture and play, some of which will be gathered through an open call. The ideas will feed into a manual, to be published in September.

Annette Krauss' Hidden Curriculum looks at unintended and unrecognised forms of knowledge that are part of learning processes and daily life within schools. Working with two groups of 15–17 year old students from local schools in a series of workshops, videos have been produced that look at the invisible values and beliefs that accompany official learning processes, and the informal knowledge and normalisation processes that influence the way we know, see and act in the world. The videos will be exhibited in a new installation in the exhibition

About the artists:

Annette Krauss (born in Germany, based in Utrecht) is The Showroom’s Artist Fellow during 2012/13, researching notions of unlearning and (in)visibility. Her artwork employs performance, video, research, and pedagogy to explore the possibilities of participatory practices, performativity and investigations into institutional structures in order to work/think through the questions: How do we know what we know? What do we see? What do we not see and why?
Collaborators: Quintin Kynaston School, Paddington Academy and Lily Keal

Andrea Francke (born in Peru, based in London) is part of the collective Making Do, who publish a magazine of the same title, and is developing The Piracy Project with AND Publishing, an exploration of the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy. She was a recipient of the Red Mansion Art Prize in 2011.
Collaborators: Portman Family Centre, Church Street Nursery, Room to Play, Luton Street Nursery, Abeona Nursery, Blue Firth, Christian Nyampeta, Beto Shwafaty, Jillian Greenberg, Hato Press, Jackson Lam, Hato Press
Communal Knowledge is generously supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, John Lyon’s Charity, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, Westminster Cultural Olympiad supported by Westminster City Council, BNP Paribas and Vital Regeneration, The Showroom Supporters Scheme, and Outset as The Showroom’s Production Partner 2012. (in)visibilities is produced in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project with Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission Culture Programme (2007-2013)

Image: Annette Krauss, Hidden Curriculum, 2012

For press information, images or to be added to the press mailing list please contact:
Holly Willats - Development Officer
holly@theshowroom.org
020 7724 4300

Events: Monday 2 July, 7–9pm: Spaces of Equality: (in)visibilities, an event with Annette Krauss, Andrea Francke and Dennis Atkinson, Professor of Art in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London

preview: Tuesday 26 June, 6.30–8.30pm

The Showroom
63 Penfold Street - London NW8 8PQ
Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm

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