Bio

Andrea Khôra is a British-American artist based in London. Her practice centres on the malleability of reality at both personal and societal scales, using artist's film, installation, and performance to examine how altered states of consciousness intersect with systems of power, such as medical institutions, capitalism, and the military-industrial complex.

Central to her work is the figure of the altered state: the psychedelic experience, trance, hyper-focus, the K-hole, or the hypnagogic moment before sleep. These are not merely aesthetic subjects but epistemological ones. BOLUS (2022) was created directly from her own experiences as an NHS ketamine patient, using early AI image generation to render the felt experience of her dissociative states in hospital settings. RAPTURE (2024) took a wider lens, using humour to examine how the same accelerationist logic drives both the psychedelic renaissance and AI techno-utopianism, treating them as two faces of the same cultural fantasy.

Her practice-led PhD at Goldsmiths, Under the Influence: Expanded Technologies of the Mind, frames this inquiry through artist's film and installation. She works with AI not as a neutral tool but as a collaborator with its own ideological baggage. Like the substances her work explores, it is a non-specific amplifier whose outputs reflect and distort the assumptions baked into its training.

Across film, installation, audio, and performance, her work asks what gets lost when interior experience is extracted, measured, and fed back into the systems that surround it. Her practice insists that the felt, firsthand dimension of these experiences are key to a more nuanced and complex understanding of consciousness and reality itself.