Caden Manson/Big Art Group is a New York City performance company founded in 1999. The company uses the language of media and blended states of performance in a unique form to build culturally transgressive and challenging new works. Since its inception, it has toured nationally and internationally and produced five new major pieces including the 'Real Time Film' trilogy Shelf Life, Flicker, and House of No More
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WORKS / DEAD SET (2006 - ON GOING)
Dead Set is a collection of footage, for a project, for a permanent record. The serial project exists as a sequence of notes : each part consists as an assemblage of modular concepts, that are rearranged for the duration of the spectacle. Dead Set#2 and #3 were organized around the topic of the image of trauma. Dead Set#2 was created first in Berlin at the Hebbel Theatre and for Paris at the Festival d’Automne à Paris. Further iterations of the series will involve non-theatrical performances, straight-to-video, and commerce.
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TOURING HISTORY:
DEAD SET #2
2006
Hebbel Theater (Berlin, Germany)
La Comete (Chalons en Champagne, France)
Theatre d'Angouleme (Angouleme, France)
Festival d'Automne à Paris (Paris, France)
DEAD SET #3
2007
The Kitchen (NYC)
deSignel (Antwerp, Belgium)
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt, Germany)
Donau Festival (Krems, Austria)
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PRESS:
DEAD SET #3
"this visually and sonically ravishing production will leave you rattled, amazed and perhaps a little queasy." - Time Out New York
"punishes its audience with an orgy of spectacle.","Live theater itself seems under assault" - New York Times
DEAD SET #2 Press
"A descent into a heavy metal hell." - Inrockuptibles (Paris, France)
"hypnotic, disturbing, anxiety-inducing,..." - Telerama (Paris, France)
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FUNDING:
Co-produced by Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Le Studio/Maison des Arts de Créteil; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt; and The Kitchen; and received funding support from Florence Gould Foundation and étant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts.
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