Cairo Clarke

Cairo Clarke is a curator and writer whose work is informed by slowness. Centering forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground, and take on multiple temporalities; supporting strands of theorizing taking place in autonomous spaces and holding space for the mess.

Since 2015, Cairo has worked closely with artists to develop and share instances of work across film, performance, printed matter, and exhibition. She was the 2020/21 Curatorial Fellow at LUX, where she developed and commissioned a 12-month programme. She has produced and edited two book projects, this broken piece of yard published by LUX in 2022, and SITE (2019), a self-published curatorial project exploring alternative encounters with artists’ practice and the dissemination of research. Cairo has been commissioned by a range of institutions and art spaces including: Villa Stück, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Project Arts Centre Dublin, Pompeii Commitment: Archeological Matters, Iniva’s Archipelagos in Reverse Research Network, Jerwood Arts.