Francesca Hawker is a London-based artist, formerly and still frequently in Brussels. Her work takes the the form of performances, poems, installations, music, self-published materials and comedy. In 2022, she led a caterwauling open mic night in a former notebook factory as part of Q-O2’s annual Oscillation Festival, an event which cemented her reputation amongst Brussels’ dilettantes of the oft-maligned open-mic format. The themes of her work (‘failure, friendship, and the maintenance of communal fantasies’) wash through her ‘21Tracks’ selection, which succeeds in combining moments of pathos-ridden bedroom production, tracks by friends and heroes, songs about transcendence and songs about getting by.

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