The Big One (Performance) / Whatever you put in threes is connected, 2007 - 2010

For Manifesta 8, an architectural design creates the framework for Hassan Khan's pieces in relation to each other. MUSLIMGAUZE R.I.P., a single channel-video, is a partial portrait of social reality and its sublimation of Thatcherite England as an exotic product. A textual piece, CHAPTER II, plays with fiction and literary style to look at recent traumatic events. Banque Banister is a sculptural replica of an urban detail, all part of the artist¿s ongoing investigation into the idea of presence.



Hassan Khan

1975, London. Lives and works in Cairo. Selected solo shows include Gezira Art Center, Cairo (1999), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2004), A Space Gallery, Toronto (2005), Gasworks, London (2006) Le Plateau, Paris (2007) Uqbar, Berlin (2008) and Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2010). Khan has also participated in the Biennials of Istanbul (2003), Seville (2006), Sydney (2006), Thessaloniki (2007), Contour (2007) and Gwangju (2008) as well as the Triennials in Turin (2005) and Yokohama (2008), amongst other international group exhibitions. He has composed soundtracks for theatre and performed his music in venues around the world. His album tabla dubb is available on the 100copies label. Khan is also widely published in both Arabic and English, his latest publication Nine Lessons Learned from Sherif El-Azma was published by the Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo in 2009.