NIC Kay - Roots +ees

Saturday, May 25, noon - 4pm

Please join us for Roots +ees, a performance and sculptural installation by visiting artist NIC Kay. This body of work sprouts from the 2020 Candor Collective published COTTON DREAMS, an artist book chronicling a life-altering experience with a cotton plant on the streets of New York City and the resulting obsession with its American historic and cultural significance.

“I have been gathering/hoarding a collection of Black T-shirts and trees in pieces (bark, leaves, roots, branches). For close to 30 months, I waited for patience, in the season, in the studio, lodge + surrounding sculpture park. On May 25th, I will share broken, changed, and scattered sculptures around the grounds.” - NIC Kay

Performance on the Hilltop: 1 - 1:45 pm
Viewing of sculptural installation at the studio: noon - 4pm

About the artist:

NIC Kay (b. 1989 Bronx, NY) makes performances and organizes performative spaces. Their works have been performed nationally and internationally in spaces including Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada; Encuentro 19, Mexico City, Mexico; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and University of Arts, Zürich, Switzerland. NIC was a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2020). They published their first book, Cotton Dreams, with Candor Arts in 2020. NIC is a Black queer trans non-binary person. https://www.nic-kay.com/