Video: Soundsuits by Nick Cave. And not clothes, and not a musical instrument
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Soundsuits are amazing installations by Chicago-based creative artist Nick Cave. This work of art can hardly be called a sculpture in the way that they were originally designed to be worn and worn. Soundsuits are a cross between avant-garde clothing and an innovative musical instrument.
Sounding Suits are so named because of the sounds they make when you put them on. Nick Cave's quirky apparel installations are crafted from an eclectic array of waste materials and items purchased from thrift stores. There are old carnival masks, artificial beards and flowers, clothes, fabrics, socks, birdcages, fine wire mesh from which a complex but visually attractive structure is constructed. Sounding Costumes are very reminiscent of African ritual costumes that explore and reproduce cultural, ritual and cult concepts.
Even when you just look at the unusual musical costumes in the photo, they charge the beholder with a kind of positive. They are especially liked by children who like to guess what material they are made of, and also like to gaze at the performances of dancers in these costumes. Working with James Morrow, choreographer James Morrow, Cave has found a dance group that, wearing unusual costumes, performs even more unusual dances.
Soundsuits have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Toronto, Boston, Salina Art Center, Kansas, and the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. In 2006, the artist's personal exhibition took place at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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