Soundsuit

A constellation of colorful found objects—including spinning tops, noisemakers, and globe-shaped coin banks—explode out from a decorated bodysuit. This Soundsuit was originally intended to be worn as part of what would have been a noisy performance. Nick Cave invented his Soundsuits in the early 1990s in response to the brutal 1991 beating of Rodney King, an African American man, at the hands of Los Angeles police. Cave sees such wearable sculptures as a socially conscious way of disguising race and allowing full personal expression in the face of such violence.