2025
12th International Mentorship with Caden Manson
Broke House
International Mentorship 2025
Pan Pan is delighted to welcome Caden Manson of Big Art Group as a mentor for 2025 to work with up to four performance makers based in Ireland to develop early-stage ideas for contemporary performance projects.
This is a one-on-one mentorship programme in which each participant will have four mentorship sessions with Caden (two online and two in Dublin) and each of the selected participants will receive a bursary of €2,200 to help them set aside dedicated time to work on their ideas. We will also offer some travel subsidy to each artist to help them to see relevant work internationally.
A final informal sharing of the ideas and the mentorship process will happen at a day-long public symposium event in a Dublin city centre location.
⚡️ Applications open 21 March and close on 16 April 2025.
🔴 Decisions will be communicated to all applicants by 2 May.
🗓 The Mentorship Programme will begin in May 2025.
The Pan Pan International Mentorship is funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. Our mentorship partner for 2025 is Dublin Fringe Festival.
MEET THE MENTOR
Photo by Chris Taggart
Caden Manson is an artist, curator, and educator whose work radically questions the audience’s relationship to reality through performances that collide embodiment, media, and code. As co-founder of Big Art Group, their dense, fast, and multi-layered performances traverse theater, film, installation, and activism—employing disruption, slippage, and interference as artistic strategies.
Manson’s work has been presented in over 50 cities across 14 countries, including at La Biennale di Venezia Teatro, Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Hebbel am Ufer, Festival de Otoño, and The Kitchen in NYC. Their landmark productions include Flicker, House of No More, The People, and Broke House. Through their pioneering techniques, such as Real Time Film, Manson reconfigures bodies and space through live video/performance installations to challenge dominant narratives of identity, presence, and power. They are a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellow, Pew Fellow, and MacDowell Fellow, and their writing (in collaboration with Jemma Nelson) has been featured in PAJ, Theater Magazine, Theater der Zeit, and Theater Journal.
Manson’s recent works continue to explore the intersections of digital embodiment, surveillance, and queer futurity. Broke House was presented at La Biennale di Venezia Teatro, while The Render premiered at TSV – Teatro Nazionale. Their installation SOS/Realness Liberation Front was exhibited at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, and their short film SOS/Animals/Action has been screening in Germany and Austria.
