Caden Manson
"Mediated Bodies: A History of Big Art Group"

Artist Talk

January 23, 2016 / 14:30

As part of the program “Music Embodied” parallel to the exhibition This is Not a Love Song: Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers, Pera Museum presents a series of talks about performance art and its interdisciplinary collaborations in collaboration with biriken. Caden Manson, co-founder of Big Art Group, talks about his practice at Pera Museum on Saturday 23 January at 14:30.  Big Art Group is a New York-based experimental performance ensemble founded by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson in 1999. Big Art Group uses language and media to push formal boundaries of performance, film and visual arts; it creates culturally transgressive works and innovative performances using original text, technology, and experimental methods of communication.

About Caden Manson
Caden Manson is Co-Founder of bigartgroup.com, Editor of contemporaryperformance.com and Curator of the Special Effects Festival in NYC. He is a Performance Maker, Video Artist, Curator, and Professor. He has co-created with Jemma Nelson and their ensemble 18 Big Art Group productions touring to 30 countries. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore, and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; his ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Aborns Art Center. He is a 2001 Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellow, 2002 Pew Fellow, and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. His writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit.

The talk will be in English with simultaneous translation to Turkish.


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Temporary Exhibition

This is Not a Love Song

Pera Museum presented an exhibition titled This is Not a Love Song: Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers which traced the genealogy of the relations between video art and pop music.

This is Not a Love Song

Cameria (Mihrimah Sultan)

Cameria (Mihrimah Sultan)

Based on similar examples by the European painters in various collections, this work is one of the portraits of Mihrimah Sultan, who was depicted rather often in the 16th century.

The Vanity of Small Differences

The Vanity of Small Differences

The Vanity of Small Differences is a series of six large scale tapestries, completed in 2012, which explore British fascination with taste and class, and can be seen in the Grayson Perry: Small Differences exhibition. 

Geography

Geography

Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.