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This is what you’re teaching.
I’m working with a group of students who are interested
in creating entire collections, and are into performance,
sculpture and video where the body becomes the vehicle
that carries all these ideas. It becomes a very broad scope
and it’s quite a fascinating program.
Yes, this is much more expansive that teaching a single
discipline.
I’m always trying to think about community, and I do
understand the purpose of the gallery. For me, I remember
going into to the museums where we’re forced to look at
these artifacts, which are so much more than relics. They
all serve a purpose through ritual and ceremony, and I’m
fascinated by the duality in how I can look at this artifact
and understand its purpose around ceremonies. The mind
can only imagine, and I like that kind of space. You look
at the sculpture and understand what the possibilities are
when movement is brought to it, but I’m more interested in
my responsibility as an artist; how I can be more proactive
and insert myself in these communities that are deprived
of support.
This is something you explored while working on the Hear
Here project in Detroit.
Detroit was a collaboration with the Cranbrook Academy
of Art where I went to school. We worked with Wayne State
University and a center for LGBT youth. What we really wanted
above (top right)
Choreographer Luther Cox
rehearses with dancers from
Northwestern State University
Louisiana in preparation for their
part in the AS IS by Nick Cave.
above (center right)
People throughout Northwest
Louisiana have “beaded a part”
of the fun of the Nick Cave artist
residency to create blankets for
use in AS IS by Nick Cave.
above (bottom right)
Nick Cave works with children
at Providence House, a home
for families who come from
homelessness, to create beaded
blankets as a part of
the residency.
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