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.

Featured: The Cockettes (1969-1972) San Francisco, USA

The Cockettes were a psychedelic queer troupe founded by Hibiscus in the late 1960s in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. On New Years Eve, 31 December 1969, at the Palace Theatre in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Steven F. Arnold let the
April 26, 2011

Week in Review: April 22, 2011

Greetings! Another big week on the network as we reached 1700 members! Thanks to everyone who have invited collaborators and artists friends! Below is this weeks updates and blog posts! P.S. We sold out of our last batch of tote bags and
April 22, 2011

Featured: matanicola (Berlin, Germany)

matanicola is a creative duo project founded by Israeli choreographer and performer Matan Zamir and Italian choreographer and performer Nicola Mascia. The duo’s first production »under«, created in collaboration with Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder, premiered in Berlin in August 2005 and has
April 20, 2011

Week in Review April 8, 2011

Week in Review Blog Posts Top Content Top Video Support the Network and look good doing it! Only $8! Top Members: Sophia Ribeiro current New York City (USA), Portugal Joella Tepper London, United Kingdom alessandra colasanti rio de janeiro, Brazil
April 9, 2011

Member Spotlight: Alexander Pohnert (Berlin, Germany)

Alexander Pohnert (Berlin, Germany) Bio: As an ’emerging’ artist and being, he combines video, performance and alternate settings and practices of experience and image production (including edibles, the auditory and olfactory perception). He is interested in the coming into being, absence and
April 6, 2011

Week in Review April 2, 2011

We made a major milestone this week by reaching 1,600 members and I wanted to thank all of you for joining, inviting friends/collaborators, and most importantly… making the network so vital with your dialogue and work and ideas! Below is your weekly
April 3, 2011

Highlights: Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX, US)

Mission: Fusebox champions innovative works of art across a variety of different mediums. The festival acts as a catalyst for new ideas, new artistic models, and approaches to help us engage with the issues and questions that define contemporary life. Core Values:
April 1, 2011

Emerging: CHOKRA (New York City & United Arab Emirates)

CHOKRA is a performance artist from the United Arab Emirates. His multi-dimensional performances integrate multi-lingual rap rhymes uttered in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Pashto, Bengali and English, live surrealistic visuals combined with digital and analogue sound, an algorithmic processing of electronic operatives via
March 30, 2011

In Performance: Creature Feature March 29, 2011 (Berlin)

Creature Feature March 29, 2011 at  21:00 Basso, Berlin “Creature Feature is a queer performance series presenting works in progress, improvisations, videos, lectures and group actions. We see otherness is a threshold towards repositioning our habitual understanding of queer ideals. Creature
March 29, 2011

Member Spotlight: Yann Gibert (Lisbon Portugal)

Bio: Yann Gibert’s body of work is situated in the exploitation of the perfomative moment for a revelation of its space/time context. His performances displace social rituals and collective memories in order to activate new fiction fields. In his pieces, the figure
March 28, 2011
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