Cave Dogs interactive installation Boundaries at the Paseo Project Festival September 12th & 13th, 2025, Sunset to 11:00pm in the Taos Historic District, Taos, NM.
Boundaries is a site-specific, multimedia installation by Cave Dogs that investigates how physical environments and man-made structures shape community, culture, and identity. Through a dynamic interplay of light, shadow, sound, and movement, the work invites viewers to reflect on the visible and invisible boundaries that influence how we live, connect, and remember.
Using sculptures, props, found objects, and original sound compositions, Boundaries transforms the space into a living canvas of shifting shadows and projected imagery. A customized electric train—outfitted with high-lumen LED lights—circulates through the installation, casting moving patterns of light and dark. This kinetic element serves both as a source of dynamic shadow play and as a metaphor for westward expansion, symbolizing the disruptive impact of railroads on landscapes, cultures, and communities.
The installation features intermittent video projections and a layered soundscape of spoken word, ambient sound, and potentially live audio, ensuring that the visual and auditory experience remains in constant flux. Content will draw from both historical and contemporary perspectives, addressing topics such as land use, eminent domain, cultural identity, sustainability, and collective memory.
Cave Dogs interactive installation Boundaries at the Paseo Project Festival September 12th & 13th, 2025, Sunset to 11:00pm in the Taos Historic District, Taos, NM.
Boundaries is a site-specific, multimedia installation by Cave Dogs that investigates how physical environments and man-made structures shape community, culture, and identity. Through a dynamic interplay of light, shadow, sound, and movement, the work invites viewers to reflect on the visible and invisible boundaries that influence how we live, connect, and remember.
Using sculptures, props, found objects, and original sound compositions, Boundaries transforms the space into a living canvas of shifting shadows and projected imagery. A customized electric train—outfitted with high-lumen LED lights—circulates through the installation, casting moving patterns of light and dark. This kinetic element serves both as a source of dynamic shadow play and as a metaphor for westward expansion, symbolizing the disruptive impact of railroads on landscapes, cultures, and communities.
The installation features intermittent video projections and a layered soundscape of spoken word, ambient sound, and potentially live audio, ensuring that the visual and auditory experience remains in constant flux. Content will draw from both historical and contemporary perspectives, addressing topics such as land use, eminent domain, cultural identity, sustainability, and collective memory.
Paper Cutting & Lighting Workshop
Want an introduction to how the Cave Dogs make their amazing shadow art? Join us for a 3 hour workshop on Saturday, July 20th at 1 PM. This workshop (for ages 15 and up), will focus on creating an intricately cut paper panel. We will then create shadows and movement from the cut panels, using our unique lighting techniques. Bring in a specific image you would like to turn into cut paper for shadow. Please make sure the image is 8” x 10” or larger.
Enrollment Fee: $60
Reserve your space online by clicking the Reserve Seats button on this linked webpage or at the TICKETS button below.
$0 due when you sign up – enrollment fee of $60 is due upon arrival at workshop (cash, check or Venmo)
This workshop is a maximum enrollment of 15 people, and an 8 person minimum. Once you are enrolled we will be in touch with more information!
2 Performances at Lincoln Theater: Friday July 19th & 20th @ 7:00 pm
Cave Dogs performs Liquid States, a shadow play extraordinaire, at Lincoln Theater, in Damariscotta, ME. Cave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling.
Cave Dogs current production, Liquid States, consists 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. Liquid States explores water as substance, as a metaphorical allusion and as a subject of socio-political debate. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource.
$35 general admission / $30 members / $10 youth
This is a 60-minute performance.
Tickets are available for purchase at the door beginning 30 minutes before showtime, or in advance* through our online box office.
*Advance tickets or confirmation emails may be printed for admission OR you may check in with your email address at the theater box office when you arrive.
2 Performances at Lincoln Theater: Friday July 19th & 20th @ 7:00 pm
Cave Dogs performs Liquid States, a shadow play extraordinaire, at Lincoln Theater, in Damariscotta, ME. Cave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling.
Cave Dogs current production, Liquid States, consists 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. Liquid States explores water as substance, as a metaphorical allusion and as a subject of socio-political debate. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource.
$35 general admission / $30 members / $10 youth
This is a 60-minute performance.
Tickets are available for purchase at the door beginning 30 minutes before showtime, or in advance* through our online box office.
*Advance tickets or confirmation emails may be printed for admission OR you may check in with your email address at the theater box office when you arrive.
2 Performances at the The Stissing Center: 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Cave Dogs performs Liquid States, a shadow play extraordinaire, at the Stissing Center , in Pine Plains, NY. Cave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling.
Cave Dogs current production, Liquid States, consists 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. Liquid States explores water as substance, as a metaphorical allusion and as a subject of socio-political debate. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource.
Purchase your reserved seating tickets in advance online: $25 for general seating, $35 for table seating (+ $2 processing fee).
This is a 60-minute performance.
2 Performances at the The Stissing Center: 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Cave Dogs performs Liquid States, a shadow play extraordinaire, at the Stissing Center , in Pine Plains, NY. Cave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling.
Cave Dogs current production, Liquid States, consists 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. Liquid States explores water as substance, as a metaphorical allusion and as a subject of socio-political debate. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource.
Purchase your reserved seating tickets in advance online: $25 for general seating, $35 for table seating (+ $2 processing fee).
This is a 60-minute performance.
This workshop, for up to 15 participants (ages 16 and up) will focus on creating an intricately cut paper panel. We will then create shadows and movement from the cut panels, using our unique lighting techniques. Bring in a specific image you would like to turn into cut paper for shadow please make sure the image is 8” x 10” or larger.
Shadow Workshop – $60 until Sat, July 22 after that $75, student/senior $50
Between Light & Shadow: Objects and Evidence
Opening Reception- Saturday, June 24, 4-7pm
The exhibition runs from June 24- July 30, 2023
This rare Cave Dogs exhibition features an installation of objects and unique lighting effects which will utilize props, artifacts, 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.
Performance at the Orpheum starts @ 2:30
A Q&A with Cave Dogs will be held at Jane St. Art Center following the performance @ 4:30pm
The theater is walking distance from Jane St. Art Center. The audience is invited to come to the gallery to see the exhibition after the performance with a small reception. Cave Dogs members, Suzanne Stokes, Jim Fossett, Adam Mastropaolo, Dillon Paul, Ted Conway and Alchemy Mastropaolo, will be present for the discussion.
Cave Dogs performs Liquid States, a shadow play extraordinaire, at the Orpheum Theatre, in Saugerties, NY. Cave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling.
Cave Dogs current production, Liquid States, consists 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. Liquid States explores water as substance, as a metaphorical allusion and as a subject of socio-political debate. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource.
This is a 60-minute performance. Tickets are general admission; $20 for adults, $15 for members, children (under 12) and seniors. Seating is limited, tickets can be purchased online.