Support FIASCO and Celebrate Twenty-Five Years

Support the creation of FIASCO and the next chapter of our work.
Your donation strengthens early development, supports artists, and helps us continue a twenty-five year commitment to radical performance.Donate today to help bring FIASCO to life.

What You Are Supporting

Big Art Group is entering a new phase with FIASCO, a multi-part serial performance cycle premiering through a series of episodes between 2026 and 2028. This project is the centerpiece of the company’s next era, building on our history of hybrid performance and Real Time Film while expanding into new approaches to modular creation and durational experience.Your support directly funds:
• Rehearsal and development time for FIASCO
• Artist and collaborator fees
• Studio rentals and technical materials
• Research, writing, and early design investigations
• Archival work that connects our history to our future
• Public sharing of process as the work emergesEvery contribution strengthens this foundation.

What is FIASCO 

FIASCO is our most ambitious undertaking since The People. It extends the company’s practice through serial storytelling, hybrid performance environments, and a shifting interplay between embodiment, image, and code. The project brings together the company’s history of live scoring, inflatable sculpture, mask performance, media puppetry, object theatre, Real Time Film techniques, greenscreen and chromakey systems, kaleidoscopic video fields, and algorithmic systems. It confronts the current moment shaped by AI slop, attention economy rage, and the recursive pull of sorry click holes. It also interrogates the race toward cultural averaging produced by large-scale AI generation. Each episode generates material that carries into the next, building an accumulative structure that evolves across the cycle and culminates in a large-scale marathon event in 2028.Fiasco is built as a contemporary tragic cycle. It adapts the structural and thematic logic of Greek tragedy and channels it through Big Art Group’s legendary hybrid performance vocabulary of digital mediation, grotesque slapstick, monstrous cartoon aesthetics, sculptural severity, and maximalist queer chaos. The work forms a fractured, darkly comic, and intensely visual performance that asks how tragedy functions today as a structure for understanding political extremity, mediated violence, and identity fragmentation.

Why Now

We are creating FIASCO now because Big Art Group has always made work inside the present moment, responding to the forces, technologies, desires, and crises shaping contemporary life. The urgency of this moment calls for a project with the capacity to evolve across multiple years and respond in real time. A long-form structure allows us to gather these pressures into a sustained inquiry that can hold complexity, transformation, and the changing conditions that define how we live.The project requires sustained development that begins now. Early support has the greatest impact because it brings the ensemble together, generates initial material, and sets the structural and dramaturgical systems that shape the entire cycle.Your gift helps us begin this work with clarity and momentum.

A Milestone Moment

The Big Art Group Book (Coming Out in January 2028)Northwestern University Press is publishing a book that gathers twenty-five years of Big Art Group’s work. It includes history, scripts, artistic process, and core methodologies, including an extended section on Real Time Film. This publication affirms the company’s place in the field and documents the evolution of our practice.As we enter this new chapter, the book provides a record of what has been built, while FIASCO carries our approach forward into a new era.Your donation supports this transition by helping us create the work that comes next.

Timeline

Your support builds this multi-year project from its first steps.
A clear overview of the cycle:2026 – 2027
Development labs, early writing, ensemble investigations, media and structure research. Later in 2026 – Creation and presentation of serial episodes through public showings, workshops, and hybrid events.2028
Large-scale marathon presentation of the complete FIASCO cycle.

Donate Today

Big Art Group has grown through collective work, artistic risk, and the support of a community committed to radical performance. As we begin the next twenty-five years, we invite you to join us by supporting the creation of FIASCO and the future of the company.Your donation today helps us build the next era of Big Art Group.
Thank you for standing with us.