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