Hasta La Motion!

Nick Cave, is a multi-talented artist who dabbles with textiles that make a ruckus. Soundsuits, born at the collision of twigs and a sewing machine are ornate costumes made of materials ranging from human hair, sisal, plastic buttons, feathers and sequins that bring to life a new sound when shakin’ and groovin’ is added to the mix. To be worn or gawked at in a gallery, these music makers are suh-weet. You can check them out in person, at the “Meet Me at the Center of the Earth” exhibit at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, now until May 30th.

Artist Mike and Doug Starn takes double trouble to a new level. The twin brothers have created an architectural performance art piece that looks like a behemoth-size game of pick-up sticks with 2,000 poles of bamboo and 16 miles of nylon rope slowly crawling across the floor. Taking over a 50-foot space at the Tallix foundry in Beacon, New York the Big Bambú will showcase it’s evolving structure on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month this summer.