Introduction

Human beings express their feelings, thoughts, and emotions to each other via many forms of art specifically through language, music, and culture among different types. The field and discipline of art have evolved for some time now regarding its expressions and nature. Art since immemorial has been part of human life. Art does not change, what transforms is how and where is expressed. Various cultures have significantly transformed leading to new forms of artistic expression.

Nicholas Edward Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian born music and a songwriter. He also doubles up as an author-composer and actor. Cave’s work is marked by emotional intensity and lyrical obsessions with death, violence, faith, and love. He has a unique baritone voice. Nicholas Cave also was trained in art before formally embarking on his musical journey. Since 1970, he has occasioned a central role in Melbourne’s scene of post prank. His brand after migrating to England assumed a reputation of being the full violent band in the globe.

Nick Cave has over the years acquired the reputation of an artist, messenger, and instructor who values art. In this regard, he appreciates both visual and performing arts with the help of a wide range of instruments particularly sound and performance, sculpture, video footage and other forms of installations. Cave is a relatively prosperous artist, who is now fighting to live a good legacy.

Nicholas Edward Cave loves Sound suits and other sculptural works depending on his body size and scale. His sound suits make the audience or the viewer to look at him without reasoning. This is possible due to the camouflaged nature of his body as result of the mask that he uses to cover his body. This, in essence, hides race, social status, gender, and age from the eyes of the viewer[ CITATION Ada14 l 1033 ].

Cave’s project HEARD•NY, which was a mega performance in Grand Central Terminal, is a classic example of how he was attempting to get us back to this aspirational environment, where we question ourselves and others around us, about the actual status of life. Unfortunately, most people do not examine the origin and the nature of life as Cave does and challenges us to do. Nick Cave is extensively celebrated for his compelling and unique Soundsuits. His cultural forms are determined by the human body. His costumes are made using assorted second-hand clothes. Effectively, sculptures, Soundsuits, costumes and musical devices are set in motion only. Cave and his team members essentially dancers wear the costumes, thereby changing them into sound and other applicable forms of video including YouTube.

Cave has invested heavily in an expensive and extensive immersive installation until in a place called MASS MoCA, which he commissioned in 2016. He has also organized several solo exhibitions at the Cranbrook Art Museum.

Style of Performance

Caves performance is very objective. His style of presentation erases and replaces individual personality. It is substituted by peculiar and formal features of the relevant scavenged matter. They are revealed through scale. There is no specific symbol or label that uncovers the size and height of the costume. Moreover, the pictures captions do not reveal much regarding the size of the costumes. In this case what is important is the monumental nature of the garments and that of the people wearing them. Cave argues that anyone who is ready to go through a social ceremony is tribal. His work appreciates the hyped role garnered by fashion in the modern world[ CITATION Ada14 l 1033 ].

Caves moral core holds as one of the basic appealing categories of Cave’s art. His work of art reveals the capacity of human beings to drive change in their respective communities despite the current challenges[ CITATION Art18 l 1033 ]. Nick Cave sound suits are inherently majestic in the sense that they can mix fashion and sculpture. ”Sound suits” initially emerged as metaphorical clads of armor in a desperate response to the beatings of Rodney King. However, they have transformed into instruments of empowerment. Sound suits completely conceal the body of the artist and effectively acting as an alien secondary skin. This enables viewers to look without bias and prejudice at the performance. Nick Cave usually presents in the sculptures by his own. He does this by either dancing before the camera or the audience.