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MOTIROTI / Image: Cooking with Love / Photographer: Ali Zaidi

Image: Cooking with Love
Photographer: Ali Zaidi

MOTIROTI

Interdisciplinary|New technologies|Performative events

SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Ali Zaidi
Learning Director
Janice Galloway
Executive Producer
Rachel Feuchtwang
Company Producer
Karla Barnacle-Best
Communications Manager
Claudia Sponton

ARTISTIC POLICY
Motiroti creates visual and live arts for public and open spaces using a variety of live, recorded, and digital media. Motiroti’s internationally acclaimed work transforms perceptions of culture, identity, and interconnectivity. Projects are interdisciplinary, widely engaging, and accessible in local and international contexts. Current work includes large-scale projections, immersive installations, online collaboration, public participation, and illustrated performance.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Motiroti’s work is like being immersed in a wide-screen cinematic experience with surround sound. Their thoughtful and beautiful projects inspire and tickle the sensibilities of an exceptionally wide range of audiences.
Shekhar Kupar (Alladeen)
A completely new process of working with institutions giving the museum and its audience a different perspective.
Hannah Redler, Head of Arts, Science Museum (Priceless)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
360°
A programme examining cultural dynamics between Britain, India and Pakistan.
60x60 Secs
One-minute films on diasporic identity made by artists and film makers from Britain, India and Pakistan. Each film examines the complexities of hybrid cultures and migration, lines and invisible borders of nationhood, through animation, documentary
No. of people required to accompany/technical support is negotiable.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
The New Collaboration (culmination of 360°) researches artistic and social impacts of migration patterns of the South Asian diaspora in Europe. An immersive film & media installation with live interventions including interactive participatory elements and events.
Journeys of Love and More Love is a live installation with edible interludes, on how food migration and culinary hybrids provide sensory landscapes and politico-cultural narratives to everyday life. Co-production with Napoli International Festival.
Parks Project will be a sustainable outdoor project on the theme of home and exile, in partnership with heritage institutions and public service providers. Events are situated outdoors, including virtual guided tours using locative and mobile technology.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops, discussions and presentations are available to accompany each project and are created bespoke in dialogue with venues/presenters. Interactive audience opportunities are also a feature of the Company’s work.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2009 Italy: Journeys of Love and More Love
2008 – 2009 India: 60 x 60 Secs
2008 – 2009 Pakistan: 60 x 60 Secs
2008 USA: 60 x 60 Secs
2007 Netherlands: Cooked with Love

TOURING AVAILABILITY
60 x 60 Secs – currently available
360° New Collaboration – available spring 2010
Journeys of Love and More Love – available summer 2009