Francis McKee is an Irish writer and curator working in Glasgow. He has been Director since 2006 of the CCA, Glasgow, and a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art. Since 2011 he has been working as lead researcher on an AHRC research project – The Glasgow Miracle: Materials Towards Alternative Histories. He curated the Scottish participation at the Venice Biennale with Kay Pallister in 2003, and has written and co-published extensively on the work of artists linked to Glasgow. Previously, McKee worked as an historian of medicine for the Welcome Trust.
Even the Dead Rise Up by Francis McKee is published by Book Works as part of Common Objectives, guest edited by Nina Power.
Common Objectives is a series of quick-fire, rapid-response projects from artist/writer collectives or individual art practices engaged with emerging political struggles, rejecting the idea of culture as a playground for the elite, engaging in the potent mix of free discourse, solidarity and the production of new desires and prepared to break open old worlds, either in the virtual space of communication and networks, or in the concrete world of action, discourse and distribution. Other projects in the series include: The Night by Michèle Bernstein, translated by Clodagh Kinsella and edited by Everyone Agrees; After the Night by Everyone Agrees; Move…ment, a new issue of the journal …ment, edited by Federica Bueti; and Bad Feelings by Arts Against Cuts.