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What were the best performances you saw in 2012?
Started this discussion. Last reply by DINO DINCO Jan 24. 5 Replies 1 Like
What is "visual art performance"?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ann Moradian May 1, 2012. 24 Replies 4 Likes
13 live performances that influenced you.
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How do you define Contemporary Performance
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Join The Master Blog And Feature Your Website On The Front Page
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What have you seen lately?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rachel Harris-Beck Oct 26, 2010. 5 Replies 1 Like
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Artistic Director of Big Art Group
- Bio
- Caden Manson is founder of Big Art Group (1999 to present) and Curator of ContemporaryPerformance.org (2010 to present)
ABOUT BIG ART GROUP:Big Art Group is a New York City performance company founded in 1999. The company uses the language of media and blended states of performance in a unique form to build culturally transgressive and challenging new works. Since its inception, it has toured nationally and internationally and produced critically acclaimed works including the ‘Real Time Film’ trilogy Shelf Life, Flicker, House of No More, SOS; and its reality-based theatre series The People. He is co-creator, director, video designer and scenographer on all 11 Big Art Group productions that have toured to over 60 cities thoughout North American, Asia and Europe for the past 12 years. Manson has also shown video installations in Austria, France, USA and Germany; performed his solo work,PAIN KILLER, in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; and taught workshops and masters courses in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Turin, New York, Toulouse, Montreal, San Francisco, and Bern. His ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, Theatre Garonne, Wexner Center for The Arts, and The Kitchen NYC. He is a recipient of the 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellowship, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and received a 2009 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He lives in New York City and outside Philadelphia where he maintains his studio.
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE NETWORK
The Contemporary Performance Network is an online community and blog with a growing roster of artists, scholars and presentering members in the field of performance. Manson founded the community in July of 2010 and today it has grown to over 12000 members and fans world wide. The term Contemporary Performance is used to describe hybrid performance works and artists that travel between the fields of Experimental Theatre, Dance, Video Art, Visual Art, Music Composition and Performance Art without adhering to one specific field's practice.
Contemporary Performance Blog
Featured: “yo.contenido” Tijuana 10/2013
www.yocontenido.com (available june 2013) http://monstertruck000.wix.com/javierpulidogandara yo.contenido is an exhibition that will open in October 2013 as part of the arts festival in the city of Tijuana “ENTIJUANARTE” (Oct 4th-6th). The exhibition is in...
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Books: Notes on Conceptualisms by Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place
Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place‘s Notes on Conceptualisms is not strictly a text on contemporary performance. However, this little manual/poem/theoretical document pertains directly to conceptual performance and conversations emerging across performance fields, especially...
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Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)
Art of Projection Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern...
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In Performance: FIMFA #13 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms (Lisbon, Portugal)
FIMFA Lx13 The International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms – FIMFA Lx is one of the most important festivals of puppetry and theatre in Portugal. Running since 2001, the festival is...
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In Performance: koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO (NYC)
Dansology, Inc presents a new work (currently untitled) by koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO June 6, 7, 8, 2013 This new dance and interactive duet work is created by Geoff Matters (composer, computer programmer, video artist) and...
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Caden Manson (Network Curator)'s Blog
Opportunities: Open Call Podcasts, Live Electronics & Electronic Performance (Athens-Votanikos)
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:15am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Opportunities: Call for Entries – Experimenta 01 (UK)
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:14am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Member Spotlight: Compagnia Danza Flux (Napoli, Italy)
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:41pm 0 Comments 1 Like
In Performance: Andrew Ondrejcak Feast (NYC)
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
New Work - Broke House Opens Thursday Jan 5th, 2012 at 8:30pm (NYC)
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 8:17am 0 Comments 1 Like
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Caden Manson (Network Curator) liked ARTErra Rural Artistic Residency's discussion Extended deadline 2013 ARTErra residency (15th June)Caden Manson (Network Curator) liked LUCKY TRIMMER e.V.'s discussion CALL FOR ENTRIES: LUCKY TRIMMER seeks short piecesCaden Manson (Network Curator)'s video was featuredMake Good Art Kinetic Typography
Kinetic typography done for class with an excerpt from Neil Gaiman's University of the Arts commencement speech
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Thank you for adding us! We have heard great things about the Contemporary Performance Network and feel great have joined.
Any fellow experimental artists that wish to explore our space in NYC and be given a personal tour need only email: diego@3leggeddog.org
and mention Caden or CPN.
www.3ldnyc.org
I'm very excited about this website. I really look forward to get to know some experimental theatres. We (www.toneelgroepdeappel.nl) have plans to invite groups to The Hague.
Greets,
Alain
Yay - thanks for fixing it!
Thank you for everything, Caden!
I hope we get to meet you soon, you are doing great things.
Best, Jill & Erik
Hey, Thank You for the message.
Grettings!!
Thank you for adding :))
Nice to meet you !!
Best regards .
Mehata
Thanks! We are happy to be apart of this awesome network!
thanks, Caden, glad to be here.
Hi Caden, Thanks a bunch for the advice and the help woth my blog post. You have created a great resource here. I'm excited to be a part of it. Cheers, Melanie Jame.
THANK YOU CADEN
Hello Caden, thankyou for your kind reception & wonderful platform..greetings from Berlin.
thank you!
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