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Caden Manson (Editor In Chief)

Caden Manson (Editor In Chief)

Caden Manson is Editor In Chief and Curator of Contemporary Performance Network and co-founder and artistic director of Big Art Group, a New York City performance company founded in 1999.

Triadisches Ballet / Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer

Added by Paulo Henrique on February 10, 2012  Inspired in part by Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and his observations and experiences during the First World War, Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of the human body as a new artistic medium. He saw ballet and pantomime
February 10, 2012

Books: Performance, Technology, & Science

Performance, Technology, & Science Johannes Birringer Performance, Technology, & Science by Johannes Birringer explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering
February 9, 2012

Featured: Big Art Group’s Broke House (NYC)

“Big Art Group is a live performance collective created by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and video. There are a score of companies that do just this. What’s different about
February 6, 2012

Books: Land/Scape/Theater

Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater’s increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the “landscape dramaturgy” of Suzan-Lori Parks, Artaud’s trip to the
February 5, 2012

Featured: Muta Imago Company (Rome, Italy)

Muta Imago is a project of artistic research that was set up in Rome in 2006 and guided by Claudia Sorace (director) and Riccardo Fazi (dramaturg – sound designer). Over the years the group has produced shows, performances and installations in which the
February 1, 2012

Featured: Pathosformel (Milan, Italy)

Pathosformel is Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani, young artists based in Milan. Their work explores new ways of using the body on stage and radically experiments with movement and visual imagery. The Timidity of Bones was created in 2007 when it
January 30, 2012

In Performance: Jim Findlay’s Botanica Feb 1-25, 2012 (NYC)

Jim Findlay BOTANICA  3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich St., New York City) 2/1-25/2012 BOTANICA explores our complicated and inextricably dependent relationship to plant life, presented as a creepy futuristic black comedy where morals, ethics, and consequences unravel along with the human
January 27, 2012

Featured: CREW – Immersive Performance (Belgium)

CREW is a performance group and multi-disciplinary team of artists and researchers. CREW_lab is the experimental spin-off where immersive technologies and strategies can be developed, tested and theorized. _lab explores and develops immersive technological devices, artistic strategies and changing (theoretical) notions of
January 26, 2012

Books: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in
January 15, 2012

In Performance: Ron Athey/Julie Tolentino Resonate/Obliterate (NYC)

Ron Athey/Julie Tolentino Resonate/Obliterate Allen Street Studios (enter at 88 Eldridge St.) between Hester and Grand; 4th floor, NYC RSVP lia@participantinc.org TICKETS $20 pre-show reception 7p performance at 8p post-performance reception with DJ Scott Ewalt Julie Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations
December 16, 2011

Featured: THE LEGACY OF REZA ABDOH December 19, 2011 (NYC)

THE LEGACY OF REZA ABDOH Martin E. Segal Theatre Center 
(Map) December 19, 2011 10am – 9pm Part I 10-4pm ALL-DAY SCREENINGS Curated by Adam Soch Williams, videographer and documentarian 10am Introductory remarks (via Skype) by Daniel Mufson, author Reza Abdoh (1999) 10:15-11:50am Bogeyman
December 14, 2011
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