No, not that Nick Cave.
Nick Cave, the Chicago based artist and professor (SAIC), has 60 of his "Soundsuits" currently on exhibition in a show entitled "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The Soundsuits (which are titled as such because they are designed to create sounds when the wearer moves) combine found objects, thrift store finds, human hair, sequins, flowers, beads, twigs and countless other handmade elements to create couture installations that aim to transcend notions of sexuality, race, and class while exploring cultural and ritualistic concepts.
In addition to exhibiting the Soundsuits, Cave has collaborated with choreographer Ronald K. Brown to create a performance fusing the Soundsuits with movement. The collaboration will be performed May 28, 30, and 31 and is free with gallery admission.
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
If you are there, please go see this and tell us how it was!
2 comments:
when i first read about this a few months ago i thought, of course, that this was nick cave of bad seeds fame and i was like dang, girl doesn't seem like the colorful type but ok! now i understand that there are 2 nick caves and this one is much less goth.
It would be pretty awesome if Nick Cave of the Bad Seeds were also a secret colorful suit making artist!
I would love to see Murder Ballads performed while wearing a giant fuzzy pink suit. It would be so much more interesting.
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