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Andrew Franck (born Andreas Franck in the United States) is a philosopher, author and visual, sound, and performance artist. Franck began his performance career in New York City and Stuttgart, Germany.

As a visual artist, Franck works in mixed media, oil, latex and carbon on paper and encaustics. His catalog contains over two hundred works focusing on metamorphosis in plant life, alchemy and the rhythmical aspects of negative space. His series of action art, collage, word art and assemblages entitled Budh &Ray: Two In One Eye, An Archetextural Digest and others examines negative space, dimensionality and form through language, and the appearance and decay of the art object. Franck's larger works have been exhibited at Centerpoint Gallery and Paralux in New York City, Basilica Industria and Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Hudson N.Y. and Jio in Montreal. His collection, Reassembling Wisdom, includes sixty-four blackboard diagrams illustrating the holistic imagination of Goethean science.

As a sound designer, Franck has written numerous works for chamber ensembles and electronics. His recordings include One Breath Bardo, Dances and Emanations, Music from Our Lady of Perpetual Motion, Maps for Dreaming, Surfacing, By Chance And Appointment, A Body of Drops and Winds and In This Bath We Don't Get Wet. His soundtracks are featured in works for dance, film, performance art and ambient environments. His Variations On A Theme By Conlon Nancarrow was featured in Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo's production of Cross Currents. His recent multimedia presentations at Beijing's Central Academy Of Fine Art employ video projections with recorded voices, live music and narration.

Collaborations with Elaine Summers, Merce Cunningham, Phoebe Neville, Carolyn Bilderback, Alison Knowles and Charlotte Moorman. Ensemble performance withTed Orr, LuckyMission, Elastik and the Hudson Valley Butoh.