Caden Manson
Caden Manson / Big Art Group
Dead Set #2
Photo : Raphaël Pierre ©
Photo : Raphaël Pierre ©
Photo : Raphaël Pierre ©
Photo : Raphaël Pierre ©
Dead Set #2
French premiere
Direction and video installation: Caden Manson
Text and sound: Jemma Nelson
Video: Caden Manson, Rob Roth and Charles Carcopino
Lighting design: William Cusick
Costume design: Kim Gill
Translation: Denise Luccioni
Performed by Valerie Bernatet, Rebecca Sumner Burgos, David Commander, Assaf Hochman, Mikeah Ernest Jennings, Petr Kruselnicky, Silvana Suarez Cedeño
Produced by Big Art Group and Diane White
Co-produced by Hebbel Am Ufer / Berlin, Le Studio/Maison des Arts Créteil, The Wexner Center for the Arts / Colombus, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Francfort, The Kitchen / New-York and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the Florence Gould Foundation, Henphil Pillsbury Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation & King’s Fountain, ONDA and Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts
After their Real Time Film trilogy (part of which was shown in Paris), Big Art Group pursue their multi-layered sampled and real-time video , restructuring uses of Hollywood and Rock and Roll special effects, and reanimating the “spent instruments of battle” to use them as their nightmarish own: “We are un-soldiers, always yielding, we will struggle only to be closer, to be united, to become soft machines.”