Flickers from CAVE

Flickers from CAVE: Experimental Art and Butoh Dance Archival Screening presents a curated selection from the LEIMAY archive’s audiovisual material. Based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since 1996, LEIMAY continues to fight for art, artists, and art spaces. This program focuses on the CAVE Gallery and Guests Artists. The CAVE Gallery featured over 300 artists from 1996-2006, bringing together action painting, installation performance, and experimental music to aggressively combine all manner of media. Each happening was recorded by Shige Moriya, CAVE’s curator, and showcases a cascade of DIY artistic experimentation. The Guest Artists portion presents performances featuring world-class dancers steeped in the butoh tradition such as Ko Murobushi and Yuko Kaseki as part of the New York Butoh Festival and its successive incarnations. Created by immigrant artists, the LEIMAY archive reveals a significant chapter in the development of butoh and the New York City avant-garde.