Artist Nick Cave invades Detroit for ‘biggest, baddest’ performance series | Knightblog

Now through the fall, Detroit will become the backdrop for artist Nick Cave’s most ambitious project to date, including seven months of events and his first solo exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum, all funded by the Knight Arts Challenge. Here Cranbrook Curator Laura Mott writes about Cave’s first stop in the city, where he traveled around the city in his signature embellished costumes known as Soundsuits. Everywhere he goes, artist Nick Cave brings with him explosions of energy, color and creative force. Last week, we got our first taste of what the project “Nick Cave: Here Hear” is bringing to Detroit this year. Cranbrook Art Museum and Nick Cave staged the first round of Soundsuit Invasion Photo Shoots in locations around Detroit. The resulting photographs will create an extra-large postcard book titled “Nick Cave: Greetings From Detroit.” The book will feature Nick Cave in Soundsuits at each location, with photography by Detroiter Corine Vermeulen ...

Homecoming | Cultured Magazine

Multimedia and performance artist Nick Cave returns to his alma mater Cranbrook Academy of Art this summer for “Nick Cave: Here Hear,” an expansive exhibition of sculptures, newly commissioned works, video art, performances and events throughout metropolitan Detroit beginning in June. April and May kick off with city-wide photo shoots of the artist’s famed Soundsuits, the results of which will be published in “Greetings from Detroit,” inspired by vintage postcards. Cave will collaborate with local art students to re-stage his performance of Heard, last seen at New York’s Grand Central Station in 2013. He will also work with local dance troupes and musicians on pieces staged throughout the city in an effort to reinvigorate the landscape—and soundscape—of the city that “saved his life.” Through October 11.

Artphaire Selects Nick Cave’s Project as “News We Love”

Experience Nick Cave In Detroit This Summer: Best know for his soundsuits, which are sculptural costumes that conceal race, gender and class, Nick Cave received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The Cranbrook Art Museum will serve as the home base for his exhibition, “Here Hear,” which will take place in Detroit in the summer of 2015. The happenings around the exhibition will include a number of performance collaborations with local dance troupes and musicians. Cave will also work with Detroit School of Arts to re-stage his performance Heard, which was first staged in Grand Central Station in New York in 2013. Consisting of a “herd” of 30 colorful — and shaggy — life-sized horses, the horses traversed through the station twice a day, accompanied by live music. Cave’s take-over of Detroit will last for a total of seven months starting this April.

Nick Cave Pop Up Photo Shoot | Blocal Detroit

Contemporary visual artist Nick Cave surprised onlookers with a pop up photo shoot in the lobby of Bedrock’s One Woodward building in downtown Detroit. Today’s visit is part of a seven-month tour of events and activations in and around the city. “Nick Cave: Here Hear” is Nick’s first solo exhibition in partnership with Cranbrook Art Museum. Quicken Loans and Opportunity Detroit are among the many exhibit sponsors. Nick Cave is an artist and dancer, famous for his sculptures, called Soundsuits, which he often stages in public spectacle. The vibrant Soundsuits are influenced by African art, armor, found objects, and fashion and textile design. According to his website, “Cave’s Soundsuits are rooted in social critique. Cave first created a suit in the aftermath of the Rodney King beatings in 1991, envisioning an emotional shield that protects one’s race or gender while still expressing individuality.” The “Soundsuit Invasion Photo Shoots” kicked off this past week and ...

Nick Cave returns to Cranbrook with homegrown exhibit | C & G News

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — A noted artist is making his way around metro Detroit this month, staging dramatic photo shoots in some of the city’s most interesting and diverse neighborhoods. Artist, dancer, sculptor and Cranbrook Academy of Art alumnus Nick Cave is taking on his most ambitious project to date with a photo series called “Nick Cave: Here Hear.” Through May 1, Cave will make stops at different locations around Detroit — including the Dequindre Cut, the Brightmoor neighborhood, the Parade Co., Mexicantown, the African Bead Museum, Eastern Market and the Fisher Building — to stage photo ops in his iconic Soundsuits, which often draw crowds to his spectacle and are described as wearable fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical and otherworldly, according to his Wikipedia page. The first of Cave’s 13 pop-up shoots took place last Friday outside Cranbrook Art Museum, on the peristyle, where onlookers were able to catch the mastermind at ...

Artist Nick Cave launches ambitious projects in Detroit | Detroit Free Press

Go ahead, Nick. Strike a pose. Nick Cave, a leading contemporary artist, was having his picture taken on the Peristyle in front of the Cranbrook Art Museum on a blustery Friday wearing one of his signature soundsuits — wearable costumes that connect the dots between sculpture, fashion design, body art and performance art. This one was a shaggy red, white and blue outfit adorned with rainbow plumage. Cave completed the costume with shades, a drum major hat and military baton. "I don't really dress like this every day," said Cave, grinning, after the shoot. A 1989 graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cave was back on campus to launch one of his most ambitious projects to date. Unfolding over the next seven months, "Nick Cave: Here Hear" will include not just a major exhibition at the Cranbrook museum opening June 20 but a series of free public collaborative performances involving his soundsuits. ...

The Rebirth of the Motor City | Virgin Atlantic Blog

Motown. Motor City. But there’s another nickname that suits Detroit's character best of all, these days: Renaissance City. Certainly, the past 50 years haven’t always been kind to this once-mighty industrial capital. But while Detroit’s fortunes have risen and fallen, thanks to a startling new surge in Detroit tech, in the arts, in design and in independent business, the city is now poised at the start of a brilliant period of regeneration. Welcome, ladies and gentleman, to the new Detroit. …And, in another upcoming artistic highpoint, musician and creative Nick Cave will be bringing his performance, Here Hear, to Motor City from April onwards. Cave, a native of the Detroit suburbs, will pose in one of his distinctive ‘soundsuits’ in locations around the city; the work will also comprise a number of live performances held in different venues across town. Sponsored by the Cranbrook Museum, the project is only further evidence of the city’s ...

Oakland Press Photos for Week of April 6, 2015 | Oakland Press

Nick Cave, wearing his ornate Soundsuit, poses for photos outside the Cranbbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills. The musician and Cranbrook Art Academy alumnus will shoot site-specific photos for a book to be published this summer, "Nick Cave: Greetings from Detroit," depicting the positive creativity of the area. Cave will have an exhibition at the museum, "Nick Cave: Here Hear" beginning on June 20th. Friday, April 10, 2015.

Cranbrook Opens Its Doors to Showcase Graduate Work and Work Spaces

Photos by Harrison Möenich (Photography ’16)2015 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art and OPEN(STUDIOS) Art Sale + Community Day Return Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 9, 2015 - The 2015 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art opens to the public with a special ArtMembers' Opening Reception on April 18, and will showcase work from the next generation of architects, artists and designers who are shaping the future of art and design. The exhibition features pieces that are the culmination of two years of studio work from a diverse group of 69 graduates. The exhibition opens to the public on April 19 and will run through May 10, 2015. The exhibition will fill nearly the entire 15,000 square feet of Cranbrook Art Museum and surrounding grounds. It is the most diverse exhibition offered all year as it showcases work from across all of the Academy’s 10 departments – 2D and ...

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Cranbrook Art Museum and Nick Cave Announce “Nick Cave: Here Hear”

Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New YorkSeven-month project includes Museum exhibition and Cave’s “Biggest, Baddest Performance Series!” Bloomfield Hills, Mich., March 30, 2015 - This spring, summer, and fall, Cranbrook Art Museum and Detroit will serve as the backdrop for Nick Cave’s most ambitious project to date – Nick Cave: Here Hear. At the invitation of Cranbrook Art Museum, Cave will stage seven months of events throughout the city of Detroit anchored by his first solo exhibition in Michigan at Cranbrook Art Museum, opening this summer. Nick Cave is an artist and dancer, famous for his sculptures, called Soundsuits, which he often stages in public spectacle. The events will kick off in April, when Nick begins “invading” the city of Detroit for a series of site-specific photo shoots. His first stop will be on the Peristyle at Cranbrook Art Museum at noon on April ...

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