We have been closely monitoring how current health and travel issues are evolving with regard to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). After consultation with University at Buffalo leadership and a great deal of deliberation, our proactive feeling is that the best thing we can do for our community is to limit non-essential large gatherings. As such, the UB Humanities Institute is postponing An Evening with Nick Cave (March 27) and Performance, Publics, Possibilty (a one-day symposium scheduled for March 28), with the hope of rescheduling in Spring 2021.
Nick Cave in costume. Photograph by Brendan Bannon.
Humanities to the Rescue: An Evening with Nick Cave (2019-20 CAI Artist-in-Residence and Eileen Silvers Visiting Professor in the Arts and Humanities)
Please join us for this very special evening.
6:00pm | Center for the Arts Atrium
7:00pm | Center for the Arts Main Stage
Humanities to the Rescue continues on Saturday with the symposium, “Performance, Publics, Possibility.”
Nick Cave, Photo by Sandro
Nick Cave is an artist, educator and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. He says of himself, “I have found my middle and now am working toward what I am leaving behind.” Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment.’
For a look into the world of Nick Cave, check out this interactive feature published by the New York Times