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HEARD NY in Grand Central: Nick Cave’s Soundsuit performance

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Heard NY is Chicago artistΒ Nick Cave‘s site-specific performance in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. In a collaboration with Creative Time and dancers from the Ailey School, 30 ‘horses’ took over Vanderbilt Hall twice a day in early 2013. Blouin Art Info spoke with Cave at the event. Plus, from The New York Times:

“Mr. Cave, known for hisΒ Soundsuitsβ€” costume-like sculptures that make noise as they move β€” has created the life-size horses out of colorful raffia. Each fits two dancers and rustles like a corn field when the herd β€œgrazes” in Vanderbilt Hall or suddenly breaks into choreography, set to live percussion, steps from the main concourse.

The idea was to produce a dreamlike vision worth stopping for, Mr. Cave said, as people are rushing through the terminal. ‘You’re stopped in your tracks,” he said, β€œand then you do get on the train and you get home. How do you share this, how do you describe β€” just imagine, coming into Grand Central and you run into 30 horses? That’s when it becomes this transformative moment.’”

Enjoy another video from the event: NYT’s Galloping in Grand Central.


Watch this next: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits.

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