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In Performance: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) IMPACT Graduate Performance Festival (Chicago, USA)

IMPACT Performance Festival
April 27 and 28, 7:00 p.m.
Performance Space, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012
Click here for more information or call 312.629.6635

Image credit: Autumn Hays, Test Site. Photo: M Ryan Noble

Image credit: Autumn Hays, Test Site. Photo: M Ryan Noble

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) IMPACT Graduate Performance Festival celebrates the Master of Fine Arts in Performance students who are graduating this spring.

Students will be presenting their groundbreaking theses after completing two years of rigorous coursework. The performances cross the borders of theatre, movement, and the visual arts in a collaborative presentation of the next wave of performance art. Admission is free and open to the public.

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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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