Nick Cave talks practice and purpose with AnOther
I’m sitting in the studio of the artist, in the northern suburbs of Chicago, surrounded by beautiful, bedazzled clothes of his creation. They are a riot of colour, texture, pattern and print – one piece is covered solely in buttons, while another gleams with sequins. It’s all I can do not to touch them.
The following day, at the retrospective and a screening of his video installation at Art on theMart, I was struck by the scale of his work which, despite being so broad in its approach, felt so resolutely focused on his mission: to educate, to better, to bring light. Nick Cave: I’m doing good. I made a decision that I wanted to be in the moment. To relish in the whole spirit, the vibe, the feeling of it all. Because sometimes, we work and we’re just scrambling, and, you know, the shit is over, and you’re like, what just happened? So I made a very real, critical decision to be present. And to think about wellness in the process.NC: Oh, yeah, totally. It’s really about that and about being able to reflect on how I got here. What I’m doing. Why I’m doing it.
We invited a group of collectors, civic leaders and artists to come and write on the storefront window, these letters to the world about racism. And then we partnered with the Schultz High School across the street, and created this, which was this massive clothesline that extended the length of the entire school, where anybody in the city could come and write a letter, and then hang it on the line. Over 1,500 people came over a period of three months … We’ve got a lot of work to do.
“Art is this vehicle for change and this vehicle for me to pour my emotions into. It has always been my saviour” – Nick Cave
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