Biography
Francesca Brusa is a researcher and curator based between Zurich and Milan. Her work inquires feminist artistic practices intersecting the concept of deculturalisation. Currently, she works as a teaching assistant in the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 2018 to 2021 she was a research fellow at the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bolzano. In 2023, she completed a PhD in Art Theory and Curating between Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her doctoral research examines the transition of social reproduction through domestic, maintenance, industrial, and sustainable labour practices in the works of Bonnie Ora Sherk, Maja Bajevic, Maria Eichhorn, and Otobong Nkanga. Since 2022, she is part of the curatorial collective Zaira Oram which curates the public program of OTO SOUND MUSEUM in Zurich, and the research project Eart awarded by Pro Helvetia Cairo Liaison in collaboration with Qanat collective (MA), among other projects.
Publication
Conferences:
“Unveiling Infrastructures: A conversation on the work of Maja Bajevic, Maria
Eichhon, and Wendelien van Oldenborgh” with Giulia Gabrielli. Feminist Infrastructural Critique. Interdependencies of Bodies, Material, and Technologies. Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, 2022.
“Otobong Nkanga, Carved to Flow (2017). Circulating between Art and the Social Field”, Forschungskolloquium zu Moderne und Gegenwartskunst. Universität für
angewandte Kunst Wien, 2022.
“Traces of Critique: Artworks as Fragments of Labour”, 19. Schweizer Nachwuchskolloquium für Kunstgeschichte, “Fragment”. University of
Fribourg, Switzerland, 2021.
“Parceling the Invisible. Art, Labour, and Politics?” 15th International Conference of Arts in Society, “Against the Grain: Arts and the Crisis of Democracy”. National University of Ireland Galaway, 2020.
Publications:
“Elisa Faletti” in Parallel Spaces n.1. Bolzano: Free Univeristy of Bozen, 2022.
“Una conversazione con Nina Katchadourian attraverso l’Aperto di Agamben” in Gabi
Scardi ed., Animot, L’altra filosofia n.10. Torino: Safrà Editore, 2020.
“Seriality, Algorithms, Life Rythms. A Growing Conversation with Martina Mächler”.
Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Kunstpreis Katalog. Basel, 2018.
“Diplorama. What’s the Point? Questions you would like to be asked”. Bolzano:
Unibz, 2018.
“Social Realism as Social Practice?” Voices of Contemporary Art, 4.05.2018.
“Carnage. The subversive potential of grotesque”. Museum Rietberg, 2017.
Lisa Lee Benjamin, Francesca Brusa, Petra Tomljanovic, eds., Kulturfolger. Zurich:
Hakuin Verlag, 2016.