Nick Cave: HEARD·SYD

Overview

No longer do we have to imagine things like rainbow-coloured horses running through our streets — instead, American artist Nick Cave is making this vision a reality with HEARD·SYD.

Set to live music and percussion, HEARD·SYD will be a welcome disruption to the daily activity of the mundane commute with an exuberant and surreal explosion of equestrian activity. 30 colourful soundsuits fuelled by 60 dancers and musicians, will bring Sydney's streets to life, highlighting the beauty and joy of nature reimagined in contemporary art as part of the Carriageworks and City of Sydney's Art & About programs. The suits themselves are constructed from coloured raffia, and other found materials, to produce a distinctive sound when activated, building to a riotous, ritualistic rumpus.

The work has taken over spaces in Dallas and Detroit as well as NYC's Grand Central Station, and its Sydney iteration will be performed across a public space in the CBD and at Carriageworks over two days in November 2016. HEARD·SYD encourages an almost pastoral dream-like state and offers an escapist response to the bustle of the city, its architecture, parks and urban spaces. It's a dynamic performance that must be seen — and heard.