Nick Cave, Heard•NY (2013)

Artist Nick Cave was in New York on Monday, presenting his new performance piece, HEARD•NY, at Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall.  Co-presented by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit, Cave’s ambitious project involves sixty dancers from The Ailey School suited in 30 life-size horse costumes. In choreographed gestures, the horses move around as a colorful herd, bobbing their heads and kicking their feet, intermittently grazing and foraging like real equines. (more…)

Artist and musician Nick Cave’s Heard•NY opened at Grand Central Terminal in New York yesterday, filling the terminal with actors dressed in surreally designed horse costumes.  Bloomberg spoke with the artist about his practice, and his goals for the installation, which will remain open all this week.  “I’m looking at the station as a platform to get people back to that place where we dream. We’re in a world where we’re trying to do what we can to exist and hold on to our jobs. So I’d like to transmit this dream-state feeling, to get us out of our day-to-day routine for a moment.”  Cave says. (more…)

Musician, artist and writer Nick Cave will bring 30 of his signature Soundsuits, intricately designed to resemble horses, to Grand Central Station this March.  The horses, which are operated by two actors, will “graze” in the main hall of the station, and will occasionally break into dance when accompanied by two harpists.  The project, titled “Heard•NY” is co-produced by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit. (more…)