Sunday , June 13, 2010
We're Obsessed: Nick Cave's Soundsuits, Now Invading L.A.
Lately I'm into costumes, like wearing facepaint or buying old seafoam-green floral-collared minidresses that make me look like a go-go dancer on her way to Sunday school. My dream costume, though, is the above piece from Nick Cave's "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" exhibition (on display now through May 30 at UCLA's Fowler Museum). It's one of the collection's 35 "soundsuits" - wearable sculptures made from materials like vintage toys, sequins, and bottle caps, and (as Kat explained a while back) worn for Cave's modern-dance performances. I went to the opening last Saturday night and wanted real bad but to jump right into the bird-branch soundsuit (which can be seen in full here), as well as the one at the bottom right (which shall henceforth be known as the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" soundsuit, btw).
And I wonder if, given LJ's ornithophobia, it would totally bug her out if I wore the bird sculpture next time we get together? Would the kitty-cat mask offset her terror, or just intensify it all the more? These be the questions one must ask oneself, before slipping into a full-body suit made of pretend birds and beads and other beautiful objects.
So: the Fowler's open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m.; admission's free. Get there fast as you can, and check the Fowler's Twitter for times and locations for upcoming soundsuit dance performances.
Tags: art, Barker loves the Beatles, birds, dance, L.A. goings-on, Nick Cave but not that Nick Cave, textiles
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