A Tipping Point
Sylvain Souklaye
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2025: OUTSIGHT
~Embodied voices resist digital silence~
Voice, noise, and bodily manifesto examining private interiority versus public self. Explores economic and political conditions shaping self-determination and collective behavior. Questions our relationship to nature amid peak functionality, asserting shared linguistic moments against visual culture’s marginalization of words.
Documentation
An afternoon of performance featuring works by LEIMAY Incubator Program alumni and community members — a group of local and international artists working within movement-based practices.
Saturday August 30th:
Shira Kagan-Shafman – Tethered
Emilija Berga – Revisit
Sylvain Souklaye – A Tipping Point
Sunday August 31st:
Kanami Kusajima – Wind
Synead Cidney Nichols – There Is Something In Her Blood
Mehrnam Rastegari & Julia Kolakova – Persian music and dance
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2025.7000.3Year Created
2025Date Recorded
20250830Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community GardenAugust 30-31, 2025
174 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, NY
Sylvain Souklaye is a French Caribbean Brooklyn-based live artist, sonic maker, and author
exploring interiority, social justice, and environmental urgencies through radical performance. His gut-wrenching live experiences and sonic installations have been presented internationally at venues including Judson Church, the Momentary, and Helsinki Central Library Oodi. Currently a Harvestworks fellow.
Photos by Benja Thompson
OUTSIGHT is a performance series presented by LEIMAY in partnership with the New York Restoration Project. It features public performances by international and local artists working within areas of dance, theater, performance art, experimental music, and butoh. Most OUTSIGHT artists have been part of the LEIMAY Incubator Program which provides them with process-focused resources. The performances are set within one of NYRP’s community gardens.
OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
This year, one OUTSIGHT artist is proudly sponsored by Studio Birdhaus. Since 2012, Studio Birdhaus has served as a platform for sharing embodied practice through storytelling and performance & visual arts.
