Kenta Nagai is a fretless guitar player and composer based in New York City. His technique extends and enhances the expressive range of guitar. From 1999 until 2002 he was a composer in residence at The Cave Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
For Immediate Release ANNE ARDEN MCDONALD: INSTALLATIONS AND SELF PORTRAITS PUBLISHED BY AUTONOMY AND ALCHEMY PRESS, 2004 With texts by Leslie Findlen, Wanda Strukus and Anne Arden McDonald Imagine that as you sit in a chair, tiny wet feathers sprout in the palms of your hands, and you fold your arms and hear the rustle of giant wings. Testing these wings, you feel them pull against the stone weight of your body, lifting you off the ground, and you feel the wind against your face as you move through an open window and up into the clouds. “I have many fantasies … Continued
Kenta was born in Kumamoto Japan and his work is included in the permanent research archive at the Asian American Arts Center in New York city.
Born in New York City in 1971. He grew up in Boston and attended the New England Conservatory extension division where he began studying music theory at age 11. His first serious piece, composed as a sophomore in high school, was accepted into Boston University’s High School Composers Workshop. As a senior in high school he received First Prize in the Harvard Musical Association’s achievement awards. After high school Mr. Celimli continued his studies at Brandeis University where he studied with Eric Chasalow and Allen Anderson. The Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis) performed his String Quartet and he … Continued
Set design for LAYER ZERO
Born in 22. 7. 1968 in Eisenstadt, 1995 Go to New York, 2001 Go to Berlin, 1991-1995 Study at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Wien, 2000-2001 Studied at Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York
Born in Osaka in 1973. MA of Kyoto University of Art and Design. Artist Statement ; The main theme of her work is “scenery” but she does not mean drawing the real scenery. Instead, she tries to re-establish time and space within a given scenery in a most defined way. By looking at her drawing, one will be able to experience the emotion that the drawing projects. Also, she uses many materials for her works and this is because she applies specific material for specific work. She is one of the most hopeful young artists in Japan.
Andrea Cote is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and dancer living in New York. She has presented solo and collaborative installations and performances in Seattle, Miami, and New York, including Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center and Jack the Pelican Presents (New York,) the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as The Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle). She received her MFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase in 2003 and performs with PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment.) In her work she questions the boundaries that have traditionally divided artistic disciplines, taking on multiple roles by using her own body … Continued
Born in Shikoku Island in Japan, 1981, Hiromi started drawing and painting when she was 4. The subject of Hiromi’s paintings is always an imaginary girl with a textile-like pattern on her face. However, the main subject matter is the extreme emotion hidden behind the face.
Nao Sakamoto, studied film theory at the Collage of Staten Island of CU.N.Y and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC. He was the chief sound organizer at the K.O.A.P. gallery, NY in 1995. ”My sound works create space, sense and consciousness, effecting a kinesthetic response in the hearer, “CENESTHESIA”, and have structure based on architectural thought, the sound acting as lanquage”. ———- I studied film theory at the CUNY College of Staten Island and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, in New York. I was the chief sound organizer at the KOAP Gallery, New York … Continued
Naoki Iwakawa was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Growing up, he became interested the New York art world after reading about it in magazines. He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts, where he also taught briefly as an assistant professor of Graphic Design. At the age of 24 he moved to New York City, where he began showing art at OK Harris and Noho Gallery in Manhattan. In 1996, he co-founded the CAVE, an experimental art space that fostered an eclectic group of musicians, artists, and performers. At the CAVE, he further developed his interest in live performance … Continued
Jeremy Slater is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net
Shige Moriya (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director) is an installation and video artist, and the founder and Artistic Director of the CAVE, a multimedia performance space, gallery and artist in residence space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Shige mixes live feed video with pre-edited materials and projects the images into sculpture constructed of layers of thin translucent screens. Shige invites audience and performer to enter the sculpture and discover further abstractions of a stretched two dimensional space. Video-installation artist and curator, Shige Moriya (born in Kyoto, Japan) has been in New York since 1993. He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but … Continued
Ximena Garnica (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director), director and curator of the New York Butoh Festival and Artist in Residence at the CAVE gallery. “Once it touches, it enters. As it travels within it stirs my guts. It breaks off skin, and I soon find myself in pieces scattered in the void. With pieces still cracking, I now celebrate”. Ximena Garnica Gomez, born in Bogota, Colombia, is an actress, dancer and emerging theater director. She is Associate Director of CAVE Co-Director of CAVE ensemble and Artistic Director of LEIMAY Productions. She has trained with several butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Akira … Continued