By Niama Safia Sandy
By nearly all accounts, this American moment is one characterized by deep turmoil. Political chicanery. Gun violence. Racial discrimination. Gender-based violence. Police brutality. Education reform. On any given day, there is some permutation of those things permeating the news cycle.
Artists often become the standard-bearers leading the way toward a kind of soft reset—devising visual strategies and physical embodiments toward new methodologies for reckoning and—in the case of the latest project by Nick Cave (NA 2015), The Let Goat Park Avenue Armory in New York—release.