Kit Monkman

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Kit Monkman is an artist and filmmaker [1] known for his work with KMA and for directing the experimental feature film, Macbeth [2] (2018).

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Public Art

From 2005 to 2017 Kit Monkman worked with Tom Wexler on a series of interactive installations [3]  which transformed numerous public spaces, from London's Trafalgar Square [4] to Shanghai's Bund, [5] into impromptu theatrical arenas in which the distinction between performer and audience was blurred. [6]

The first large-scale work, Flock, was commissioned by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2007 [7] and described by the ICA's then director, Ekow Eshun, as "a whole new realm for 'live' artistic experience" [8]

2010's, Congregation represented the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo that year. [9] Following its debut in Shanghai, Congregation has been staged seven other times including performances at Tate Britain in London also in 2010, a 2014 performance at Market Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and most recently in 2016 in the town of Enschede in the Netherlands. [10]

A 2020 work People We Love was presented in York Minster in 2021 and has its US premiere in Pittsburgh in April 2022. [11]

Film

Kit Monkman has also directed two experimental feature films, the first a co-direction with Marcus Romer of Universal Picture's 2014 visually experimental The Knife that Killed Me, [12] and Macbeth (2018), [13] an entirely green-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy. [14]

Screen Rant placed the film number two in a list of 10 Shakespeare Screen Adaptations You Probably Haven't Watched (But Definitely Should), "Considering how stunning it is, Kit Monkman's 2018 adaptation of Macbeth has flown remarkably under the radar. It does not even have a consensus on Rotten Tomatoes yet. ....  A visually captivating marvel of the big (and the green) screen, this Macbeth is not to be missed." [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kit Monkman". IMDb.
  2. ↑ Felperin, Leslie (8 March 2018). "Macbeth review – full of sound and fury". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  3. ↑ R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, V. Hanschke (2011). A touch of code : interactive installations and experiences. Berlin: Gestalten. ISBN   978-3899553314.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Phillips, Sarah (31 January 2007). "Wannabe ballerinas wanted". the Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "CONGREGATION - an interactive kinetic light instal | Event | Rockbund Art Museum". www.rockbundartmuseum.org. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  6. ↑ Nedelkopoulou, Eirini (14 December 2017). Performance and phenomenology : traditions and transformations. New York: Routledge. pp. 152–172. ISBN   978-1138805514.
  7. ↑ Standard, Valentine Low, Evening (5 April 2012). "Ballet fans Flock to Trafalgar Square". Evening Standard. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  8. ↑ Eshun, Ekow (11 December 2007). How soon is now : 60 years of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. [London]: ICA. ISBN   978-1-900300-54-4.
  9. ↑ "UK's National Day Expo celebrations". gov.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  10. ↑ Elwell, J. Sage (10 December 2020). Religion and the digital arts. Leiden: Brill. pp. 14–16. ISBN   978-90-04-44743-1.
  11. ↑ "International Public Art Installation "People We Love" Seeks Participants Ahead of North American Debut". Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  12. ↑ Ide, Wendy. "The Knife that killed Me". The Times. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Macbeth, The British Council, Performing couples who tour". BBC. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  14. ↑ Kirwan, Peter (1 December 2020). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 79–91. ISBN   9781108367479.
  15. ↑ Tsatsaki, Artemis (29 February 2020). "10 Shakespeare Screen Adaptations You Probably Haven't Watched (But Definitely Should)". ScreenRant. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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