Artist Nick Cave joins Rail Contributor Matthew Biro host for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.
In this talk
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Nick Cave
Artist, educator and foremost a messenger, Nick Cave (b. 1959, Fulton, MO; lives and works in Chicago, IL) works between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment. They serve as a visual embodiment of social justice that represent both brutality and empowerment.
Matthew Biro
![A drawing of [Matthew Biro]](../../../../../media/files/matthew-biro-portrait-by-phong-bui-2015.jpeg?nf_resize=fit&w=250 "A drawing of [Matthew Biro]")
Rail Editor-At-Large Matthew Biro is Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1998), The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin (2009), and Anselm Kiefer (2013). His reviews of contemporary art, film, and photography have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Contemporary, Art Papers, and The New Art Examiner.
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