![]() Of his experience with Until, Carl Hancock Rux wrote, “Each of us attempted to honor what we had witnessed: the spirits of Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland the cable news network noise of vitriolic bipartisan bickering and race riots the unfinished work of revolution necessary to unify a national crisis. Participants’ engagements with the space and exhibition themes fuel a groundbreaking session of performances and events. Community groups included Northern Berkshires for Racial Justice, Northern Berkshire Community Collation, Common Folk Artist Collective, the First Congregational Church of Williamstown, Lift Ev’ry Voice, and members of the North Adams and Pittsfield Police Departments. Jones (dancer/choreographer), Helga Davis (vocalist/performance artist), Nona Hendryx (musician/ performance artist), Okwui Okpokwasili (dancer), Carl Hancock Rux (playwright/multidisciplinary performance artist), Francesca Harper (dancer), Sandra Burton (choreographer), Brad Wells (composer), Sereca Henderson (musicologist/singer/organist), Poetic X (spoken word artist), and Brenda Wimberly (gospel singer). Artist participants included Solange Knowles (singer/songwriter), Bill T. Cave gathered friends, performers, and community groups through two “convenings,” which took place within the exhibition. When Nick Cave conceived Until, he intended it to be more than an exhibition his vision was a space that would serve as a platform for dialogue and expression. ![]() ![]() NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS - The artist Nick Cave, whose exhibition Until is currently on view in MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery, has invited performers and community groups to coalesce around common ideals and ultimately find healing in the exhibition - Cave’s largest, most political, and most personal - in which he addresses issues of gun violence, gun control policy, race relations, and gender politics in America today. “Cave is using to convene prominent performers in other fields and inspire them to craft their own responses to the work and the conversations it’s meant to instigate.” - Boston’s NPR News Station, WBUR “An enchanted but menacing landscape.” - The New York Times I no longer imagine Cave a solitary maniacal genius making elaborate sculptures he’s a genius who expands on his imagination with the grateful help of others.413.664.4481 Nick Cave: Until Monumental Exhibition is Home to Performance Art and Community Events ![]() Signs on a wall in the Forothermore show list the names of the many people who help Cave make his art, in multiple workspaces in Chicago. Like, how can this work serve as a catalyst for intervention? I want my work to be defined by the greatest effect I can have on the world.” Wall sculpture Rescue Time and AgainĬave is involved with community action groups, and often stages “convenings”, where he brings together dancers, musicians, poets, and others to perform and have discussions. I’m interested in thinking about art as an array of vast options. Cave’s Sound Suits Twig Soundsuits and others Cave uses beads, wire, sequins, buttons, toys, ornaments, furniture, and more in his wildly creative Soundsuits series, and other works. Soundsuit, the name of the first, made entirely of twigs, is about 9 feet tall. He said he wanted to protect himself with a “second skin, or a suit of armor” which “erases gender, race, and class.” These suits are also meant to empower the person wearing them. Cave, feeling vulnerable, noticed that twigs and sticks made rustling noises when in motion. The brutal beating of Rodney King in 1991, and other racial injustices had a profound effect on him. Cave boy and animal-1Ĭave, a gay Black man, is also a dancer and performance artist, best known for his Soundsuits. However, the museum’s wall descriptions of what has fueled Cave’s work add to their power and excitement. Just looking at Cave’s works would be enough to excite me and make me think. The grand scale of his works made for a breathtaking experience. I was always taken in by the look and the craft of it, imagining an artist with extra human energy. For years, I have marveled at pictures of Cave’s varied art, the busyness of it, and the obsessive nature of the materials. ![]() The Nick Cave show Forothermore at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC might be the most memorable I have ever seen. ![]()
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