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 / FLICKER (2002-2005)

Ficker uses Manson's real-time film technique of live video projection and split second-choreography. In it two movies collide into each other and bleed onto a single screen. In one movie, Justin searches for a savior from self-annihilation, but can’t be helped by the morbid voyeur Jeff nor the manipulative Vivian; and then he meets Rebecca who speeds him along his path of destruction. In another film, a group of city friends find themselves lost in a wilderness that turns mythic and murderous. As the two films intersect, a dark tale of disjunction emerges, exploring the need to comprehend the irreality of death and the everyday presence of violence. A comedy.
 

TOURING HISTORY:

2005 In Motion Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA USA)
Teatro Central (Sevilla, Spain)
VEO Festival (Valencia, Spain)
Teatro Canovas (Málaga, Spain)
Teatro Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
Teatro La Fenice (Senigallia, Italy)
Trafó (Budapest, Hungary)
STUK (Leuven, Belgium)

2004 New Territories Festival (Glasgow, Scotland)
Emilia Romagna Teatro (Modena, Italy)
Sommerszene Festival (Salzburg, Austria)

2003 The Via Festival (Maubeuge, France)
Inteatro Polverigi (Polverigi, Italy)
Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich, Switzerland)
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
De (internatonale) Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Le Vie de Festival (Rome, Italy)
SpielArt Festival (Munich, Germany)
Hebbel Theater (Berlin, Germany)
Mettre en Scène (Rennes, France)

2002 Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse, France)
Festival d'Automne (Paris, France)
Théâtre de Lorient (Brittany, France)

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"The theatre of images for the new century is born: rapid, without concessions, violent and consuming itself at 100 miles an hour.” – Le Télégramme

"No description of "Flicker," is likely to convey its ragged, witty lunacy." - New York Times

"intriguingly unique and original... it's unlike anything else in town." - New York Post

"Wave of the future" - Time Out

"Thoughtfully designed and sharply executed, director Caden Manson's production reasserts his claim as downtown's new best thing." - City Search

"...a breakneck immediacy that feels very contemporary." – Village Voice
* Tour dates and locations subject to change. © 1998-2005 Big Art Group, Inc.