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MPA-B | Programme | Week 1 | May 1-7, 2013

PROGRAMME | WEEK 1 | MAY 1-7, 2013

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WEDNESDAY MAY 1
MPA-B OPENING PARTY MYFEST KREUZBERG
COME AND CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF MPA–B WITH AN OUTDOOR PARTY IN THE HEART OF KREUZBERG’S MAY DAY STREET FEST. Performances, Public Interventions, Street Party with Elana Katz, Katie Dunbar, Kim Baek Ki, Non Grata, Leila Làrbi and many, many more! | Curated by Michael Steger/Open Space
FB Invite: www.facebook.com/events/490321844368679
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THURSDAY MAY 2
GENDER AND THE CITY + FIL CONDUCTEUR (May 2-6)
Site-specific workshop with CestBeauLePouvoir + 96 hour-long durational site-specific performance with Christine Dilmi | Curated by Camilla Graff Junior
FIXATION #01 (May 2-10)
Performance on public transport with Catherine D’avril
WATER (May 2-22 + May 30)
Performance & exhibition with Nuno Vicente
BRICK MOON
Live performance art and experimental sound, a collaboration Eru and Seven of Eglise, special edition with Nathalie Mba Bikoro
BALLAD OF SKINNY LATTES AND VINTAGE CLOTHING IN THE SURREALIST TAXI
Performance/Surrealist Taxi ride with Fruit for the Apocalypse & Neo Futurist Collective
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FRIDAY MAY 3
DIRECT ACTION 2013 (May 3-5)
Festival & gathering with Dominik, Matthew Crookes, Nina Ross + others | Curated by Stefan Riebel
4 DAYS UNTITLED (May 3-6)
Continuous, 4 day-long Performative Installation with Balz Isler | Curated by Teena Lange
A-CURATE #2 (also on May 7, 9, 11 & 31)
Performance, Radio Broadcast, Exhibition with Emilie Delugeau, Lulu Rafano, Nicolas Puyjalon + others
HOT ACTS (URBAN RITUALS) (ongoing throughout May)
Dinners and performances in apartments with Joseph Patricio, Lalo Gomes
Ongoing projects:
GENDER AND THE CITY+FIL CONDUCTEUR
FIXATION # 2
WATER
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SATURDAY MAY 4
BUBBLE
Street intervention with Paloma Orts Pascual
BIG AND BITE SIZE (also on May 11, 18, 25)
Street intervention with Joseph Patricio
INVISIBLE DRAWINGS: GREY AREA
Workshop, open studio and performance with Natalie Adams, Christine Cheung + guests
BRIDGES AND NON-BRIDGES OF PERFORMANCE ART & CONTEMPORARY DANCE (May 4-30)
Month-long workshop series with Agora Collective, Diego Agulló + others
TERRITORY
Performance with Vinzenz Fengler, Nadine Rahimtoola
ARTIST IN EXHIBITION (May 4-25)
Site-specific interventions with Mariana Delgado
WHY PERFORMING HAS TO BE NAKED
Total bodyperformance with Tijana Titin, Boris Duhm, Clemence Lacheny
Ongoing projects:
DIRECT ACTION 2013
4 DAYS UNTITLED
GENDER AND THE CITY+FIL CONDUCTEUR
FIXATION # 2
WATER
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SUNDAY MAY 5
VISITE SURPRISE
Performance documentation/screenings with Bettina Hutschek
WORKS ON PAPER (also on May 12, 19, 26)
Live and durational Sunday performance series with Joyce Clay, Mariana Hahn, Kate Hers + others
Ongoing projects:
DIRECT ACTION 2013
4 DAYS UNTITLED
GENDER AND THE CITY+FIL CONDUCTEUR
FIXATION # 2
WATER
ARTIST IN EXHIBITION
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MONDAY MAY 6
BODY MAPPING WORKSHOP (May 6-11)
Workshop with Nathalie Fari / atelier obra viva
PERFORMER STAMMTISCH
Performance and discussion with Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Frank Homeyer | Curated by Jörn J. Burmester & Florian Feigl
Ongoing projects:
4 DAYS UNTITLED
GENDER AND THE CITY+FIL CONDUCTEUR
FIXATION # 2
WATER
ARTIST IN EXHIBITION

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TUESDAY MAY 7
LATITUD 32ºN/55ºS
Site-specific performances with Elgalpon.espacio, M.J. Yurazeck | Curated by Lala Nomada
IT MUST BE MY IMAGINATION+OSVALDO’S BAR
Concert with Vinyl Horror and Terror + performance with Bailly Blo, Layla Torres Mollerup | Curated by Camilla Graff Junior
CROSSING THE LINE – MEXICAN PERFORMANCE
Contemporary performance art with showcase of artists from Mexico
Ongoing projects:
BODY MAPPING WORKSHOP
A-CURATE # 2
FIXATION # 2
WATER
ARTIST IN EXHIBITION
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MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART-BERLIN
Web: www.mpa-b.org
Email: [email protected]

MPA-B is an initiative in collaboration with the
non-profit organisation:

PLUSNULL e.V.
Web: www.plusnull.org
Email: [email protected]

MEDIA PARTNERS:

Berlin Art Link

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
Francesca Romana Ciardi

CURATORIAL COLLABORATION INITIATIVE (CCI):
Joel Verwimp, Florian Feigl, Francesca Romana Ciardi, Nathalie Fari, Joern J. Burmester

PRESS/PR:
Elke Thiele
www.siebengruen.de

MPA-B 2013 BLOGGERS:
Elizabeth Stevens, Belle Santos, Orion Maxted, Sophie Kirby, Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Ena Schulz
www.mpa-blog.tumblr.com

GRAPHIC DESIGNER:
Adria Chilcote
www.adriachilcote.com

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION:
Visual Communication Project
visualproject.indivia.net

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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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