BMO Lab Diagonal Speakers Series with Caden Manson

Artistic Director Caden Manson presents an overview of Big Art Group’s evolving practice through the lens of the company’s current project, FIASCO. Framed by the forthcoming 2027 book on Big Art Group from Northwestern University Press, the talk traces the ensemble’s history, the development of Real Time Film, and the pedagogical and working methodologies that have shaped its hybrid approach to live, media, and networked performance. Situating this lineage within contemporary conditions shaped by algorithmic culture and generative AI, Manson examines embodiment as a material and relational practice within technologically saturated environments, and failure as a structural strategy for interrupting repetition, exposing system logics, and pushing back against statistical normativity in probabilistic models.

Co-sponsored by the BMO Lab, the Helen and Paul Phelan Chair in Drama, and University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of English and Drama.

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