Alex Kahn
Alex Kahn is one of the master puppet designers of Superior Concept Monsters, an ensemble of puppeteers, musicians, artists, and choreographers dedicated to the art of pageant puppetry. They design and build, through a series of community workshops, the giant puppets that lead New York's annual Village Halloween Parade. His puppet works have also appeared in the Henson Festival of International Puppet Theater and numerous community based workshops.
Kahn is also the founder and research director of the Archive of the Synapse, a nonprofit institution dedicated to the study of "the Synapse"—the interstitial place between multiple worlds. Fragments of his research have been exhibited at Refusalon in San Francisco, The Kitchen Performance Center in New York, the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, and the Instituto Allende in Mexico. He is currently on the faculty of Maine College of Art, and is continuing his translation and restoration of The Codex of the Synapse. |
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