Francesca Hawker

Francesca Hawker (born 1992, UK) is an artist and performer living in Brussels. She works across the fields of performance, poetry, installation, music and self-publishing. She often works collaboratively within the “slapstick of ordinary relation”, defined by Lauren Berlant as a way of “trying to stay in the same enough conversation in order to build something together that neither of us could build by ourselves." She is currently a PhD candidate and teacher at LUCA School of Arts in Gent, where she is researching the role played by embarrassment in performance frameworks.