b. Johannesburg, 1971. Artist whose practice incorporates exhibiting,
writing and curating. 1993-1995 engaged as coordinator of exhibitions on
the inaugural Johannesburg Biennale. 1995-1997: part of the curatorial team
of documenta X, Kassel. 1999-2002: resident in Cape Town, founder/director
of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Cape Town
. Mulcaire has worked on many collaborative
artistic projects including:
Johnny at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels in 2000 (with Craigie
Horsfield). Johnny was an 80-day event that attempted to get the 5 separate
and divisive national cultural institutions who occupy the Palais to work
with one another;
Some Polychrome Wood Sculpture: in 1998 Mulcaire began a collaborative
project with Joseph Kpobly (b. Cotonou, 1960) entitled a.k.a the reading
room. Taking the form of a film set, and first presented at the Sao Paulo
Bienal, the reading room is an attempt to collect every book written about
Africa until the subject disappears.
In 2000, Mulcaire co-curated the exhibition home for the Art Gallery of
Western Australia, which featured the installation of Marko Peljhan's
makrolab on Rottnest Island off the coast of Fremantle. Mulcaire is
currently editing a monograph on the makrolab, which is due to be published
in 2003.
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