![]() ![]() The mobility of the light source allows Cave Dogs to create multiple, richly layered visual tableaus and effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation. High intensity, handheld lights create dynamic, unusual, and distorted shadows of varying scale onto a translucent scrim. The performances consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from sculptures, props, costuming and the human body, in concert with projected video imagery, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. ![]() Our goal is to explore and raise awareness about the finite nature of this precious resource. It is also to produce work that is thought provoking, inclusive and entertaining.Ĭave Dogs brings together visual artists, musicians, dancers, and storytellers in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration. Water is the lifeblood of our bodies, our economy, our nation, and our well-being. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource. Our current performance, Liquid States, explores water as substance, metaphorical allusion, and engages debates relating to the geographies and socio-politics of water. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. The installation is a liminal space where the tangible and ethereal meet in an ephemeral relationship between light and dark.Ĭave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. We establish a contrast between installation and environment by using everyday materials in surprising ways and by emphasizing shape, texture, and composition. Site-specific installations provide an opportunity for props, images and content created for a live performance to be recontextualized in a fixed, dynamic spatial relationship. Through experience we can predict shadows cast from some objects, but more often we find lighting surprises when we improvise the relationship between light, object, and shadow.Įach installation is unique and requires a great deal of understanding and interpretation of the space itself to realize the best presentation of the work. Materials are important to us in that we make props out of recycled cardboard, tape, metal, wood, a variety of papers, foam core, gator board, wire, acetate, drafting film, acrylic/plexiglass, foam, real and artificial foliage, an assortment of connectors, adhesives, and repurposed found objects like toys, tools, and household items. ![]() We believe that insights in art are supported by multidisciplinary practice and find that work in one discipline will influence work in another. We explore a wide range of making and creating in the studio when building props, making intricately cut panels, acetate drawings, costumes and other supporting performative elements to be able to achieve the visual effects we desire. In support of our collective perspective, our content – props, video, sound, lighting – is created in-house using individual and collaborative concepts and skills. Together, we acknowledge the unexpected, the whimsical, celebrate the surprise, and allow the work to take shape from it. ![]() We depart from tradition in favor of abstraction and experimentation to ensure the evolution and vitality of our work. We employ images, both moving and still, to enhance meaning in sound. We use scale to create complex dynamics between objects, the figure, the space and the viewer. Between Light & Shadow: Objects and Evidence by Cave Dogs, includes unique lighting effects which will utilize props, costumes, and video from our current performance Liquid States and past performances, including Sure-Minded Uncertainties, Archaeology of a Storm, Ferrous City, How to Build a Raft, and Emily’s Circus.Ĭave Dogs work involves combining movement, form, manipulated light and shadow to explore the process of creating unusual and surprising visual effects and produce imagery that consistently delights and challenges the viewer. ![]()
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