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 / HOUSE OF NO MORE (2004 - 2006)
House of No More is the third and final part of a conceptual trilogy of 'Real-Time Film' begun with the works Shelf Life and Flicker. In this last part, the performance starts with the reenactment of a crime experienced by "Julia", a woman who thrusts herself on screen in her quest for her missing child. But simultaneously as this thin premise unfolds, the performers develop an antithesis-- that the story is being faked as it is being created, that even as it is conjured, it is being dispelled. And yet, as Julia herself dissolves into this corrupt transmission, even as she herself becomes ghostly and multiplied across the reality of her life; what emerges is not a battle for the ownership of an absolute truth, but a thirst for a satiating lie.
The storyline starts in the shape of a paranoid thriller, but it mutates, becomes aberrant and invasive. The story of House of No More, as with all the parts of Real-Time Film, is not told through the devices of conventional dialogue and narrative, but across an extended field of meaning in which the method of delivery contaminates the message. The Image contradicts phrases, sounds obscure dialogue, the audience is forced to take a perspective and quickly abandon it. We recognize no bounds: from creator to receiver, instigator to voyeur, we move through states of being with an alarming and thoughtless facility.
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TOURING HISTORY:
2005
Hebbel Theater (Berlin, Germany)
Théâtre Garonne/TNT (Toulouse, France)
Festival d'Automne à Paris (Paris, France)
Le Manege (Maubeuge, France)
Le Vie de Festival (Rome, Italy)
La Rose Des Vents (Villeneuve d'Asq, France)
Wexner Center (Columbus, Ohio)
Art Rock Festival (Saint-Brieuc, France)
Festival de Otoño (Madrid, Spain)
Teatro La Fenice (Sinigalia, Italy)
Semaines Internationales de la Marironnette (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Theatre de Nimes (Nimes, France)
2006 - Temps d'Image at L'Usine C (Montreal, Canada)
Festival Mois Multi (Québec, Canada)
Donau Festival (Krems, Austria)
Scene Festival (Salzburg, Austria) |
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PRESS:
"Constructed as a breathless and disquieting narrative, Big Art Group’s House of No More is a spectacle as challenging as it is original, as freaked out as it is dazzling, far beyond traditional schemas and classical conceptions." – Midi Libre
"Big Art Group breathtakingly unfolds this hour-long crash test like an infinitely decelerated car accident - or act of love?!"
– Der Tagesspiegel
"gleefully subversive" – Time Out New York
"Big Art Group's technologically dazzling House of No More is perfectly aligned with the vertiginous tempo of modern life."
– Village Voice
"mind-bending" – Digital City
"on the bleeding edge of video technique." – New York Sun
"The show is raw and caustic even as it remains sleek and professional. " – Theatre Mania
"House of No More takes theatre into the 21 century by marrying art house film with classic theatre; it's a 3D movie you won't need glasses to view" – Next Magazine
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FUNDING:
Rockefeller MAP Fund, The DNA Project, a program of Arts International, made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation
Co-producers: Festival d'Automne (France), Theatré Gâronne (France), Maison de la Culture de Créteil (France), Hebbel Am Ufer (Germany), Caserne Mirabeau (France), Teatro di Roma - Vie dei Festival (Italy)
Co-commission:The Wexner Center For The Arts, National Performance Network, Performance Space 122
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