Keith Kahn
Keith Kahn is a multi award-winning artist whose work is recognized internationally.  His career has been eclectic, engaging with diverse audiences and practices, and his work investigates culture and site in many devious and engaging ways.  Kahn consistently uses the energy of popular culture in his visual art, live work and carnival.  Recent commissions include Director of Design for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games 2002 and artistic director of Celebration Commonwealth, for the Queen's Jubilee Parade in London on June 4, 2002.  The parade involved 4,000 people from different countries, and created a kinetic, living sculpture featuring hundreds of diverse acts including martial arts, sports groups, singers, dancers, and drummers.  Starting on the streets on London's Notting Hill (where he worked as a carnivalist for eight years), Kahn's work now occupies places such as the Tate Modern, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Millenium Dome, where he designed the opening ceremony and worked with Mark Fisher and Peter Gabriel on the Central Show that ran for the entire year in the same building.  Kahn has also completed design projects for IBM, Coca Cola and Ericsson.  As a counterpoint to working within event culture, Kahn also works with motiroti, an organization dedicated to engaging audiences and artists as an equal partner in the making and presentation of work.  Kahn is on the board of London Arts, responsible for the support and development of arts in London.