5/12/2002
Ferrous city
Mobius, Boston
Cave Dogs brings together visual artists, musicians, dancers, storytellers, and writers in the spirit of experimental collaboration. Performances consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a white screen from sculptures, props, costumes, and the human body.
by Cave Dogs
Performances, Friday & Saturday 8 pm, Saturday & Sunday 2 pm
$12/$10 students and seniors
Cave Dogs brings together visual artists, musicians, dancers, storytellers,
and writers in the spirit of experimental collaboration. Performances
consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a white
screen from sculptures, props, costumes, and the human body. Using
improvisational techniques, cast shadows move in concert with projected
video imagery, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. The results are
visual tableaus and effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early
experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation. Cave Dogs members
are Suzanne Stokes, Jeanne Scheper, James Fossett, Trudy Trutwin, Wayne
Montecalvo, Mike Crawley, Kari Giordano, Judith Muldoon, and Laura Moriarty.
The soundtrack was created by Dean Jones.
Reflecting on the car culture that dominates the lives of many families in
the U.S., the "Ferrous City" narrative is conveyed through the window of the
family station wagon. As characters journey through space and time, their
experiences speak to the absurdity of everyday life and to the extraordinary
power of the ordinary and insignificant details of our days. It is about how
we encourage the life of the mind through childhood play and adult
daydreaming, and how our lives are shaped by these interior narratives.
David Wildman of The Boston Globe described the work of Cave Dogs as "a
startling original way of telling a story. Fluid camera-like angles dance in
wild imagination across the screen"
In the image: 'Emily's Circus', 1994.
Mobius
Boston's Artist-Run Center
for Experimental Work in All Media
354 Congress St.
Boston, MA 02210
phone: 617-542-7416
fax: 617-451-2910