A small offering to begin 2026...
The Quality of Light is available with all proceeds donated to @gazamutualaidsolidarity
In return for your donation you receive a beautiful little pocket book.
Fill in the order form 🔗 in bio and I will send you a link to the fundraising pool.
Edition of 100
£10 +postage
Design & hand folded by me
Graphic design by @amokamok
Screen Printed by @sonsolesprintstudio on Fedrigoni Sirio 140gsm Dark Blue
This piece was written for @kushedamensah collection Unhide presented @vamuseum during London Design Festival 2024. Thanks to the lovely people who asked to read the piece after the performance this version of it was born ✨
Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals book launch in Napoli last week @museomadre . Thank you @soniad.alto@mareartproject for all your care and attention in the creation of this beautiful book and for inviting me to contribute to it.
Sonia shared a collection of films and archival materials with me by the feminist collective of which I had some prior knowledge but the invitation gave me the opportunity to spend more time with Le Nemesiache’s work. “Le Nemesiache fostered an experimental artistic practice and a way of being in the world rooted in feminism, mythology, folktales, sci-fi, and radical imagination.” In particular I was interested in their approach to filmmaking as an embodied, collective practice in collaboration with the natural territory towards what they called “sacred wholeness”.
My piece - How Many Ways Are There to Breathe? considers the idea of sacred breath within the territory of Naples, within cinema and as part of the unseen that threads through everything from our existence, to our memories and imagination.
A truly stunning monograph containing posters, archival materials, essays and creative responses to the legacy of Le Nemesiache published by @moussemagazine get your copy! 🌊🌋
It’s here!
This past year I had the honour of working as the Managing Editor for Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's (@ladydangfua ) first monograph 'THE DELUSION' published on the occasion of her exhibition at Serpentine North. @serpentineuk
It has been an incredible process from research, development to production with an immense and inspiring team of people who make this beautiful book what it is! If you know my work you know I really love working on publications not only as a container for a project or artists work, but as a medium itself. Thank you for having me a part of this project Danielle and Tamar! Thank you to Jamie Reid Studio for bringing all of ideas for the design and details of this book to a whole new level ✨💐
THE DELUSION has been produced in a gamified, interactive style, envisaged as a 'new bible for emotional processing' and offers intimate insight into the creation of 'THE DELUSION', as well as the artist's wider practice.
Thank you to the contributors: Rebecca Allen, Barby Asante (@barby_as ), Tamar Clarke-Brown (@licklemore_ ), @hansulrichobrist , Shenece Oretha (@oooretha ), Legacy Russell (@ellerustle ), @mindyseu , Ebun Sodipo (@epastry ), Helen Starr (@themechatroniclibrary ), Rosa-Johan Uddoh (@rosa_johan ), McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark3000 ) and Kay Watson who have so generously contributed to this book.
Can’t wait for you all to get your hands on what we have created together!
Available to shop now online and on-site.
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Co-published with Archive Books (@archivebkj )
Edited by Tamar Clarke-Brown in collaboration with Cairo Clarke
Design by Jamie Reid Studio @reidjamie@joeldent_@hannahlordyy@yashin.__
𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 | 𝐂𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐎 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄
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We are excited to welcome Cairo Clarke, independent curator and writer, for a residency aimed at exploring and connecting with the Tunisian art scene through her lens of embodied decolonial practices.
Cairo has worked internationally across film, performance, editorial, and exhibitions, with deep experience in community outreach, youth education, and mentoring.
Her residency is generously supported by the @artfund Curatorial Travel Fund and the @iniva_arts Institute.
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#YBAresidency #CuratorInResidence #CairoClarke #ContemporaryArt #DecolonialPractice #ArtistCollaboration #CuratorialPractice #CommunityEngagement
Another year of the beautiful @bogiaisso my favourite occasion to watch & curate artist film & moving image! Thank you @bogiaisso for inviting me again, for Chioggia and the community to hosting us and holding the works in the unique, special way you do and gratitude to all the artists who shared their work 🌬️🐳💙
Canal screening photos courtesy of @bogiaisso
Printing Project Highlight – Screen Printed Zine
We’ve just finished printing a poetic zine with Cairo Clarke and are excited to invite her to share more about the project.
“The zine began with a writing invitation from furniture designer Kusheda Mensah during Design Week 2024 at the V&A. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s Poetry is Not a Luxury (1985) and Idris Shah’s The Sufis, I wanted to explore the idea of a beam of light. The concertina format lets the text physically expand—like a prayer card or small notes you can keep close, yet holding something greater than the words themselves.
Printing in white ink on deep blue paper was a way to embody stars in a night sky or reflections on the ocean, with words shining against darkness. The work first lived through readings and performances before becoming this tactile print.”
About the artist
Cairo Clarke is a writer, curator, and editor focused on embodied decolonial practices, publishing, and experimental projects. Recent work includes collaborations with Serpentine Arts & Tech and LUX.
@cairoc
Copies will be available 🔜 Visit us and sign up for our publishing talk for more inspiration on art books and zines.
Link in bio.
#ScreenPrinting #ArtPublishing #ZineCulture #ArtistTalk #IndependentPublishing #PeckhamFestival
Setting the Table. A continuous collective endeavour, ongoing states of rehearsal. Thank you @mistura.a@therecoveryplan & @villaromanaflorenz for hosting us these past days. To all the collaborators who nourished us with words, food, sounds, films, vibes! It's been a privilege to be a part of Volume II of convening, sharing experiences and strategies that draw upon the history and archives of Pan African and AfroDiasporic congresses, meeting places, retreats. Audacity as a tool! (cc @mistura.a for that one). One of my notes from our sharing sessions says "gathering around the invitation, calculating for the unknown" and I think it beautifully describes how our individual and collective energies came together these past days. ✨
An element of my practice orbits around the erasure of the maternal ancestor in the colonial creation of the Anglo-Indian identity and the ripple effects of that intentional severing. Yet more and more the severing, obscuring and renarrativising intentions of colonial archives somehow does not manage to penetrate my mind or heart completely. There is a knowing far deeper and far stronger than any colonial pursuit to reshape people’s relationship to who they were, the languages they spoke and beliefs they held.
There are so many questions marks surrounding the names carried through my family and what clues they might conjure about our family pre colonial India. Countless conversations, stories passed down, new hypotheses arising as conversations and memories are pieced together.
What comes into existence through the historical dynamics of naming is a call to attend to that which is not written, or in some cases written without care, misspelled, considered insignificant. A footnote for some can become a whole universe for others.
When I came to find “Maurimoothoo” written in the baptism records of some ancestors I started to imagine who this woman I descended from might be. There is no trace of her other than being the mother of Henry Couzens “illegitimate children”. The misspelling of Marimuthu hid the beauty of her name and what I imagine her parents thought of her as she came into this world; a symbol of prosperity, pearl and rain, sacred is her essence far more than any archive can ever know.
Sharing these thoughts as many of us can no doubt relate to the complexity of naming and what it means to discover through the archives of empire a glimmer of light that allows us to muse on what cannot be verified but that which we know. In this process of reckoning with the precarity of lives which are visible only at the moment of their disappearance I continue on in the process of establishing who we are in relation to who we have been….Marimuthu, Ethel, Freda, Sheba, Cynthia, Baby, Rebecca…
I had the immense honour of having a cuppa tea and chatting with @sportsbanger for the CONTROVERSY issue of @kingkongmagazine . We talked about work experience, zine making, grief, mass funerals, fashion shows and community action. Chatting with Jon was very inspiring and energising so please read it, charge yourself up and make meaningful things with the people you love! Issue 19 is now available for pre-order and out soon ✨
Slowly finding a way to share things I'm working on on here because books, knowledge sharing and being in active community with comrades and loved ones in these heavy times keeps my feet firmly on the ground.
1. Ephemera research day with @ladydangfua@licklemore_ working together on an exciting book project!
2 -4. Dipping into my dycp as i start to explore the materiality of my writing by learning how to make books! Special day @londonbookarts
Ps I am no expert but if anyone wants an extra pair of eyes on their dycp applications my inbox is open ✨
Grateful to catch the last few days of @jaoutunis and see: Assembly & Unstable Point curated by @taous_r_dahmani
Fragments of Home curated by @kenza_zouari
Personal Accounts curated by Karim Sultan
Bent El Machta: A Family Affair @yosr_ben_ammar_gallery
Energised by all of my encounters with the artists, their work, research & embodied experiences scattered around the city ❤️🔥
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