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Featured: Month of Performance Art Berlin (Week of May 7 – 13, 2012)

The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART is a month-long and citywide platform dedicated to highlighting, promoting and interconnecting the wealth and diversity of independent, contemporary and experimental Performance Art practices thriving in BERLIN. The only Performance Art project of its kind in Germany and beyond, MPA-B reflects the creative force injected by autonomous cultural players into the city’s Performance Art scene with an eclectic programme of indoor and outdoor performances, workshops, lectures, actions, site-specific interventions, talks, screenings, experimental music and unique audience encounters and interactions.

ϟ MAY 7TH

20:00: [ MPA-B ϟ LeKlub ] / Zunftwirtschaft
Come and get social, and mingle with fellow artists at this informal MPA-B night gathering, with hosts, performances and games. Tonight a Night of Magic – Jeux des Mains, Tricks and Magickx

ϟ MAY 8TH

17:00-21:00: Agora
Workshop series “Agora thinks Performance Art”: Week 2 with Diego Agulló and Dmitry Paranyushkin: On Discord (running until May 12th)
20:00: Galerie en passant
“The WINDOW piece_2012”: performative intervention by Anne Wodtcke

ϟ MAY 10TH

20:00: Kreuzberg Pavillon
“About Being God”: a happening with Kalle von Karl + other special guests
20:00: Art Laboratory Berlin
“Musical Transpositions for the Reversing Machine” by Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski Palindrones

ϟ MAY 11TH

Starts at 18:00: [ MPA-B ϟ MPA open ] / Acud
48hr non-stop Performance Art marathon organised by the MPA-B team and featuring over 62 performances by artists from all over the world (finishes on Sunday 13th at 18:00)
18:00: Liebig12 project space
Sound/Klang installation – rime collage composed by Holger Bleck (Zeitungspoet) and Allegra Solitude for LIEBIG12 using daily news paper as source + performance by artists Ivana Spinelli & Simon Olivier  (sound-layering) + performative jamming guests
19:00: Escape International Performance Festival
Beginning of a 9 day performance festival deconstructing the geopolitical meaning of the phenomenon, concept and word “Escape” (running until May 19th)
19:00-22:00: Stattberlin
“Performance project M4P” with various spontaneous performers and audiences interacting within Delphine Marinier’s installation / Performance and opening (exhibition running until May 19th)
19:00-21:00: Momentum
“Staging the World Performing the Floor”: screenings and performances with Nadja Verena Marcin, Kathryn Garcia + others (running also on May 12th)
20:00: LEAP
“Schönheitsmaschine” Performance and Installation by bösediva (Robin Detje/Elisa Duca) and Jochen Arbeit (running until May 13th)
20:00: tamtamART
“Unspoken, Regulate/Rhythm” with Pei-Ling Lee, Yi-Chun Chen, I-Hsiang Wang, Chiang and Yi- Ching
20:00-23:00: Silver Silver Lopez
“FocusDiversion3.0”: three succeeding performances in a multidisciplinary installation setting with sound and videowork
21:00: F.I.T.
“The place of my Memory oder Das Meer hinter der Mauer”: performance by Ana Kavalis (running also on May 12th)

ϟ MAY 12TH

16:00: Art Laboratory Berlin
“Experiments with the Reversing Machine”: workshop with the artists Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski
18:00-20:00: Savvy Contemporary / Richardplatz
Packet Soup – “Verstilling”: performance by Nathalie Fari at Richardplatz
19:00: Alex TV

“The Powers of Art”: the only live TV show dedicated to the performing arts and paranormal activities – Episode 4 dedicated to the world of Performance Art

19:00: Skalitzers Contemporary Art
“Fine Lines”: exhibition by the in-famous Swedish artist Nug

ϟ MAY 13TH

17:00 & 18:00: Tatwerk
“Shelter”: performance with Ana Rita Manuel + “The Heart Lies in the Roots II”: performance with Marisa Benjamin
Ends at 18:00: [ MPA-B ϟ MPA open ] / Acud
Closing day of this unique 48hr non-stop Performance Art marathon organised by the MPA-B team and featuring over 62 performances by artists from all over the world
19:00-21:00: Live Confession / Heroes
A conversational game with words and exchanges with MPA-B artist Simon Lewandowski. Hosted by Leen Horsford at Heroes Bar

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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