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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.

In Performance: OFFTA (Montreal, Canada)

The OFFTA is an artistic event created by Montreal artists on the edge of the Festival TransAmériques. The OFFTA offers a multidisciplinary program centered on contemporary creation and the encounter of various art forms. The OFFTA distinguishes itself by an artistic direction
June 1, 2011

Week In Review: May 29, 2011

Lastest Contemporary Performance Posts: In Performance: Jeremy Wade’s Creature Feature #10 (Berlin, Germany) Featured: MGM (Brooklyn, NYC) Books: Situation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) Featured: Performance Studies international PSi Featured: Smeds Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland) Featured: Performance Studies International #17 Conference Opportunities: Medea
May 29, 2011

Featured: MGM (Brooklyn, NYC)

MGM has been making highly structured dances since 2005. The project has developed as a touring machine, taking a single dance and performing it within and across dozens of spaces, mobilizing the audience, site, context, and choreography through this encounter. MGM’s creative
May 26, 2011

Books: Situation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)

Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved
May 25, 2011
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Featured: Performance Studies international PSi

PSi is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange among scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance. We seek to create opportunities for dialogue among artists, thinkers, activists and academics. PSi is actively committed to creating
May 24, 2011

Featured: Smeds Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland)

Smeds Ensemble is an international theatre group, founded in 2007 and named after its artistic director Kristian Smeds. Smeds Ensemble is a production unit which functions as a meeting forum for Finnish and international artists. Smeds Ensemble works on a widening field
May 23, 2011

Featured: Performance Studies International #17 Conference

Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience is an initiative of Theatre Studies at Utrecht University and the theatre festival Festival a/d Werf. This conference takes place from 25 to 29 May 2011 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience combines science, scholarly
May 21, 2011

Books: Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics

Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) by: Anna Munster In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the
May 19, 2011

In Performance: Dean Moss – Nameless Forest (NYC)

Nameless Forest Dean Moss In collaboration with sculptor Sungmyung Chun The Kitchen (NYC) May 19—21, 26—28 8:00 P.M. Tickets are $15 The Kitchen presents the premiere of Dean Moss’ latest work, Nameless forest, which he developed in collaboration with Korean sculptor and
May 17, 2011

Books: The Senses in Performance

This anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume
May 14, 2011

Books: The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Rancière

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up
May 11, 2011

Video Contest

Good Performance documentation is an art form. This week until Friday May 13, 2011 we are running a contest for the network member with the top performance documentation video. The member with the video that has the most Facebook likes by Friday
May 9, 2011

Member Spotlight: VestAndPage (Florence/Berlin)

VestAndPage (Florence/Berlin) Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes have been working together since 2006 as VestAndPage in contemporary performance and video art. Their art practice explores the limits of communication as well as the boarders of private and social spheres, fragility, transformation, impermanence
May 8, 2011
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