It was 1992. Chicago artist Nick Cave was in turmoil over the beating of Rodney King. Sitting in a park, he noticed a twig on the ground. It was discarded—a symbol of how he felt as a black man in America. This small branch would inspire the creation of a wearable sculpture—a protective second skin of sorts—made entirely of twigs. He dubbed it a soundsuit. Since then, Cave has made hundreds of soundsuits out of metal, fabric, beads, buttons and other scrapped materials. Here’s how he uses these works of art in collaborative performance projects exploring racial injustice and empowerment.
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Soooo…. some cops are assholes a black guy is mad and to show how mad he is he transforms people into giant confetti ghillie suits?
😂
A suit of armor? A thing a weak items can apparently block a 5.56 in this man's eyes
Them twigs are discarded. #Justicefortwigs
Please explain, why this video has so many dizlikes?
great marketing skills. It's tough to make it in art.
FURY
Jokes on you, I’m a republican 🙂
Why?
Nick (olas) cage
It sounds like a naruto music is going play
We need to care more about police brutality. It can happen to every black person. Its awful, if yall dont understand the dangers of it you can go to hell. #BlackPower #StopHate
These videos are getting worse and worse
Is that scp 2421
A suit of armor let's find out
Me: shoots it with a 50. Cal
Suit: bounces off
Me: well crap
Just What In The ActUal FucK iS thIs
I don’t get modern art
Bruh I could make a suit out of sticks
Why it turned out from red to violet
Loved his Skeleton Tree album.
That drag kid video should be taken down for sexualizing kids
police hurt some one.
people: it's autistic guile suit time.
Very gifted artist! I love it👍🌿✨
Okay but did this channel get a different owner or something, used to make short documentaries on really cool stuff that was unique and now it's just a bunch of SJW bs, this channel used to be so good why ruin it.
Uncle thing?
I don’t get the like dislike ratio on this vid
It's sad to see one of my favorite channels go political
I studied Nick Cave at school. He was an icon to us young sculptors and if people didn't know one of THE most well known and influential living artists today. Then I say the high dislike count and then I saw some of the comments and straight up, y'all are just not informed. Making a joke about how he was inspired by a twig is like going up to Brancussi and saying his work doesn't look like a bird. Like you're hating on a guy who isn't on the come-up…like is in the fucking textbooks already. The dude has a studio with 20 something employees and one of his sculptures sells for a minimum $100K
The “drag kid” dances at gay bars who throw money at him. Also the kid claims to be lgbt but hasn’t even reached puberty yet… who the fuck liked the video?
Great big story seems want to become history to me. I subscribed cause the story was big to me. Now.. its fading away and getting ridiculous. Maybe the director or productions or management changed. Idk.
>This 11-Year-Old Drag Queen Isn’t Afraid to Show His True Colors
>Wants to help the world to see the world in a different view point
>Disables Comments
>Basically blocking other people's viewpoints
>Wtf Buzzfee… Great big story?