| Description | Records, mainly designs, photographs and videos, for projects from 1988 onwards. Files for the following productions will also be found in the series MR/KK:
Keepers of the City, 1988
World in 2 or 3, 1988
Gran Gran Fiesta, 1989
Last Great Northern Hippo, Opera North,1990 |
| AdminHistory | From 1982 to 1988 Keith Khan worked independently as a designer and artist on a number of projects either alone or with other collaborators and performers. His collaboration with Ali Zaidi began in 1989 and eventually led to the formal establishment of motiroti, although he continued to work independently as a designer after that time. The projects were:
1982
Loup Garou: acrylic painted fabric figure, with 2m long limbs, head and a phallus.
El-Viaja Hasta Columbia: installation featuring large scale, emphemeral architectural environment. A massive paper colonnade, patterned with ink.
Paper Columns: plaster capital, and cartridge paper shafts.
1983
Mihrab: architectural mihrab (arch), decorated with ink marks and pencil construction details.
1984
GLC Clothes: Keith Khan's collection shown at City Hall by the G.L.C.
1985
Kathakali: 8 mm animation film, with papier maché props and painted figures.
Exotic: series of photographs of installation of painted aniline muslin interior
1986
Images from Purdah: performance featuring extracts and images from the Koran and Othello. Muslin, crinoline, purdah mask and painted cloths.
1988
Les Spwi Tan Nous, Notting Hill Carnival: male and female individual, King and Queen +100 floor members
A City On Stilts: 5 Muslin / fabric conical structures on stilts. A sculptural installation reflecting themes and images from Hosay in Trinidad architecture from the gallery, Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Preston.
Moko Jumies: performance on stilts for celebration of carnival, Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Preston.
Keepers of the City: TV film of carnival inspired dance
The World In Twos and Threes: performance at Chisenhale Dance Space.
1989
Gran Gran Fiesta, South Bank, London: costume and Fiesta market designs
Flesh & Paper: short TV film
Socouyan: installation and performance, Blue Coat Gallery- Liverpool
We de Aetheopian, Notting Hill Carnival
1990
The Last Great Northern Hippo Show: community opera, Opera North.
National AEMS Exhibition: touring exhibition
1992
Soldiers Tale (Stravinsky), Barbican
Noyye's Fludd (Britten), Welsh National Opera Regional Tour
1993
La Cenerentola (Rossini), Welsh National Opera
1994
Alice in Wonderland: London Bubble touring production in London parks
Arabian Nights: London Bubble touring production in London parks
1996
Skeleton, Soho Theatre |