As part of the program titled "Music Embodied," a parallel event 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. Caden Manson, co-founder of Big Art Group, will talk about his practice on Jan. 22 at Pera Museum. Big Art Group is a New York City-based experimental performance ensemble co-founded by 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. Manson is also a performance maker, video artist, professor, editor of contemporaryperformance.com and curator of the Special Effects Festival in New York City. He and Nelson have co-created 18 Big Art Group productions that have toured 30 countries. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, New York City and Portland, Oregon; performed "PAIN KILLER" in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, New York City and Bern, Switzerland; 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 the Abrons 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.

When: Jan. 23

Where: Pera Museum