Nick Cave : greetings from Detroit

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Nick Cave: Here Hear" at the Cranbrook Art Museum and the accompanying Detroit Performance series, this colorful board book format publication celebrates the spirit and people of Detroit with fourteen oversized postcards. Each postcard depicts Nick Cave wearing one of his signature Soundsuits in various iconic Detroit locations including the Michigan Automotive Plant, Eastern Market and the Fisher Building. As described by Cave, Soundsuits are sculptures that can be worn with the sound generated from the materials that make noise such as bottlecaps, twigs and raffia. They hide identity—gender, race and class—forcing the viewer to look at the work without judging it and to be open to the non-familiar.