Explore the Venice Family Clinic Art Exhibition and Auction through avant-garde Japanese Butoh accompanied by live music, featuring Kyoko Takenaka (Butoh), Colloboh (modular synthesizer), and Dylan Fujioka (drums and percussion), presented by dublab. Enjoy complimentary food and beverage alongside the program.

Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that emerged in the late 1950s as a radical response to Western influence, characterized by slow, deliberate movement, white body paint, and an unflinching engagement with transformation, mortality, and the unconscious. Often performed in states of extreme physical and psychic vulnerability, it is as much ritual as performance, an art form that asks both dancer and witness to sit with what is strange, uncomfortable, and alive.

Kyoko Takenaka is a director, filmmaker, butoh dancer, actor, musician, performance artist, and teacher based between Turtle Island and Japan. Centering their work in the in-between, they create work around diasporic longing as it relates to cycles found in nature, Japanese mythology, and the ethereal realm.

Colloboh (a portmanteau of Collins Oboh) is a Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based experimental producer and composer. Colloboh has released music on Leaving Records, performed everywhere from Hood Rave to Walt Disney Concert Hall, and hosts a monthly radio show on dublab.

Dylan Fujioka is a composer & multi instrumentalist that has been writing, recording & touring as a member of multiple bands (Chelsea Wolfe, Mangchi, Best Coast, Meatbodies, Upsilon Acrux) as well as solo since 2008. He also composes for TV/Film most recently David Choe & FX’s “Choe Show”. He was born and raised in Los Angeles CA.

Since 1970, the Venice Family Clinic has been providing free and accessible healthcare to the West Side community regardless of income, insurance, or immigration status. For the last three years, dublab has been teaming up with the clinic to support their annual art auction. The auction is a crucial part of their fundraising, and is rooted in their deep history of serving artists who might not otherwise have had access to affordable healthcare.