Big Art Group, founded in 1999 by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, is a New York City performance/media company renowned for its innovative use of technology. Their works disrupt traditional narratives and performer-audience relationships, blending high and low technology, marginal and mainstream culture, and blunt investigation to confront complex contemporary issues. Presented at major festivals in Europe, North America, and Canada, their performances short-circuit perception and rewire the experience of performance.
“‘Trouble’ is our exploration blending Big Art Group’s tech-centric queer theatrics with the possibilities engendered by AI, computer vision, and hyper-materiality. We will interrogate and reconfigure the structures of the Western theatrical canon to foster multiplicity and marginalized narratives. Utilizing a machine learning corpus of decolonized discourse and queer theory, our residency at CultureHub integrates AI-driven performance techniques and community action. Over five days, we will conduct workshops, collaborative development sessions, and public engagements as we build the Trouble theatre machine.”