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.
Which three books would you recommend?
My Cocaine Museum 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 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 SeaToon 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.
Whose reading list are you most curious about?
The next book that you will write!