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Aladin is an interdisciplinary artist/curator and strategy consultant based in London.
His work has been featured at contexts including the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum (V+A), British Museum, South London Gallery, Jerwood Space, Chisenhale Dance Space, Bullion Room/Hackney Empire, Miller’s Academy and Trafalgar Square, London.
aladin’s honours include: selection for the British Festival of Visual Theatre, the National Review of Live Arts (U.K.) and the London International Festival of Visual Theatre. In August 2007, in recognition of his distinctive contributions across creative boundaries, London's Portobello Film Festival appointed aladin as Guest Curator of a Mini Meltdown over two evenings at Westbourne Studios. aladin is also a Gold Turban Member of the Magic Academy, Bangalore (India) and a winner of the title International Magician of the Year at the Alternative Arts Festival, London
As a magician aladin has made appearances in the Universal Pictures movie ‘Magicians’ (2007) and the multiple awards-winning film project 'Book of Cool' (2006) - featuring two dozen of the world's greatest virtuoso entertainers. aladin has magicianed at the launch of Sketch in London, for clients in a yacht off Monaco, at special events in landmark international spaces – as well as for a combined live theatre and television audience of hundreds of millions in Bangalore, India
aladin separately works internationally on civil society-building and on cultural policy through his strategy consultancy alkhemi – for clients ranging from the Nordic Council of Ministers to the Love Parade in Berlin.
Following Ken Livingstone’s election as London’s Mayor in 2000, a Cultural Strategy Group for London (CSG) came into being, charged with the development of the world’s first integrated plan for culture, media, sport, arts, heritage and tourism. aladin was head-hunted by the Mayor to develop the policy-making process between 2000-4, finally co-authoring a published culture plan widely regarded as groundbreaking if controversial.
As one of the principal cultural strategy architects of CSG and its Co/Vice-Chair, aladin played a key role in leading and managing a process whose outcomes ranged from the generation of the Olympic Bid to the underlining of the pertinence of ‘diversity’ in cultural policy.
aladin has been a visiting academic at academic institutions internationally in disciplines including: cultural policy, contemporary cultural anthropology, organisational management, leadership and negotiation. Institutions include: Manchester University, Art Academy of Trondheim, Christies London, Copenhagen Business School, The Learning Lab in Denmark, London’s City University and the KCC Foundation. aladin has written widely on society and culture including for the Nordic Institute of Contemporary Arts, Latest Art Magazine, The Photographer’s Gallery, the Almanac of Political Art, the Berlin Senate and Deepak Chopra’s IntentBlog. He has wide experience as a keynote speaker for organisations ranging from the Tate Modern to Schlumberger-Sema.
aladin has been an on-air guest on the talk show BBC Radio 4's 'Midweek with Libby Purves'. He has been extensively profiled in The Times (3 pages of the Saturday Times Magazine) and The Sunday Times (centre pages of Culture Section) amongst others.
“Mystical cardmeister” (The Times, London); “Extraordinary magician” (The Sunday Times, London); “Master of sleight of hand” (Evening Standard, London); “Virtuoso magic and visual poetry” (Time Out, London); “Theatrical poetry” (ICA, London); “Astonishing legerdemain and prestidigitation” (Whitchapel Art Gallery, London).
www.subvirt.com aladin's interdisciplinary creative work www.magicaladin.com Personal website and press file for magic www.aladinmagic.com Updated agency website for magic www.alkhemi.com aladin’s work in strategy consultancy www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2007/studios07.html Portobello Film Festival - 1 www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2007/studios06.html Portobello Film Festival - 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJhmSAWZJw Clip from movie ‘Magicians’ www.bookofcool.com/html/trailerpop.asp?url=../dev/clips/magiccards.swf Clip from ‘Book of Cool’