Francis McKee
Francis McKee
- lecturer
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8722-5066- Job Title
- lecturer
- School or Academic Area
- Interdisciplinary Research
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- F.McKee@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
Biography
I have led a collaborative GSA/CCA AHRC research award to create an archive of contemporary art and performance at CCA. Subsequently i've worked on the creation of the Ester Krumbachova archive in Prague.
My current research focuses on two main projects. The first is an exploration of the concept of tradition in recorded folk music. The second is an investigation of the Krazy Kat comic written by George Herriman between 1911 and 1944. In this second project I use historical archives to contextualise and interpret this early masterpiece of comic art, repositioning it in relation to issues of race, sexuality and contemporary art/art writing in the early 20th century.
Research Interests
Open Source
Archive
Comics
Material Culture and Music
PGR Supervision Interests
Art Writing
Curation
Contemporary art
History of comics
Teaching
Lecturer - MFA
Latest Additions
- Tinkler, Ted, Copestake, Anne-Marie, Mistry, Janaki, Gray, Margaret, Chi, Shenghan, Sinforiani, Leah, Riechmann, Lottie and McKee, Francis (2024) Speculative Fictioning The GSASA Archives. GSASA Assembly Building, Glasgow, 10-23 May 2024
- McKee, Francis (2024) Chaos, Clocks, and Watermelons Part 2. Francis Mckee Substack.
- McKee, Francis (2024) Chaos, Clocks, and Watermelons Pt 1. Francis McKee Substack.
- McKee, Francis (2024) Anything Goes Part 2. Francis McKee's Substack.
- McKee, Francis (2024) Anything Goes Part 1. Francis McKee's Substack.
- McKee, Francis (2024) Wormwood, lizards and the railroad man Pt. 2. Francis McKee Substack.
- Coutts, Nicky, Rogers, Henry, Hannah, Michelle, Hodson, Elizabeth, Murray, Liz, Šik, Becky, Topping, Jane, McKee, Francis and McGilvary, Owain (2023) Queereal Secretions. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 13 November - 15 December 2023
- McKee, Francis (2023) Skirting the event horizon. In: Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Article Press, Glasgow.
- McKee, Francis (2023) Predicaments in Queereal Secretions.
- McKee, Francis (2023) Until Our New Sun Rises. In: Minerva Cuevas. RM Verlag, DAAD, Berlin, pp. 75-115. ISBN 978-84-19233-51-6
