Kit Monkman is a leading and prolific innovator across screen-based art and interactive media. He directed the visually experimental UK feature Macbeth (2018), described by Peter Holland (Chair of the International Shakespeare Association) as ‘the most innovative rethinking of what it means to put Shakespeare on film for decades’, and co-directed The Knife That Killed Me (2012).
As a founder of KMA, Kit has also worked as an installation artist in the interactive public realm, creating works that have dramatically transformed many iconic spaces from London’s Trafalgar Square to Shanghai's Bund, and as a theatre and show designer with artists as diverse as Prince and DV8.
In this episode we chat about some of Kit’s early work, and the role of technology in creativity. We discuss the increasingly interconnected relationship between all art forms, how those relationships can be used to blend the boundaries between artist, subject and audience, and his upcoming work "People We Love" showing next month at York Minster as part of York Mediale.
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#45: Kit Monkman - Viridian FX & KMA