Hello world!

I’m Andrea Francke and I’m a senior lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts BA Fine Arts. I’m a 0.8 so I do a lot of teaching and admin. I’m Tutor Group Leader, co-run the Year Meetings and the Lectures for Term 1, co-coordinate the Professional Futures Lectures, the cross-year Lectures Strand, and AV Cultures, Studio Sessions on Wednesdays. That means I have 33 students in my tutor groups for which I’m responsible for practice support, pastoral and care and helping managing their writing tutorials; while also supporting and being one of the main contact point for the 167 students in Year 3. I love it but also, how am I going to manage doing this course?!

I’m a Peruvian social practice artist based in London since 2007. My practice focuses on developing structures for being and thinking together (with collaborators and colleagues, or through publications and public gatherings). These exchanges manifest through a regular practice of writing, publishing, public speaking, podcasting, exhibiting and residencies, all undertaken collaboratively. Most of my projects are self-initiated, collaborative and cover extended periods of time.

After years of hosting public events and making things visible, I’m currently invested in invisibility, transparency, and developing administrative and pedagogical infrastructures as aesthetic strategies. Current projects include Ten Texts on Sculpture, an ongoing podcast with Matthew de Kersaint Girardeau that functions as a resource to explore reading with art students; FR&ND, a platform to develop and distribute board games developed by artists with Francis Patrick-Brady; and Future of the Left (FOTL), a collaboration with Ross Jardine exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of administration and policy, through research and writing.

Selected past projects include The Piracy Project, a collaboration with Eva Weinmayr exploring the political and aesthetic potential created through book piracy, copying and other reproduction techniques; Invisible Spaces of Parenthood, a collaboration with Kim Dhillon focused on the politics of parenthood, motherhood, childcare, early years pedagogy and reproductive labour; and Evaluating the Gasworks Participation Programme, a FOTL project that designed an evaluation framework, and reporting mechanism, specific to the Gasworks Participation Programme.

I’m very interested in pedagogy and educational frameworks so the PGCert will be a great opportunity to nerdy out!