NIC Kay
Site: Texas and Cherokee Street
NIC Kay closes Counterpublic on Saturday, July 13th with a newly commissioned processional performance of pushit! (an exercise of Getting Well Soon) that weaves throughout the Cherokee Street neighborhood. “Can resistance be choreographed?” is the question that drives pushit!, a site-responsive performance by the New York–based artist NIC Kay. NIC’s artistic practice is inspired by a wide range of movement disciplines—from butoh to praise dance to voguing—that come together in pushit!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
NIC Kay is from the Bronx, currently occupying several liminal spaces. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. They are obsessed with the act and process of moving the change of place, production of space, position, and the clarity/meaning gleaned from the shifting of perspective. NIC’s current transdisciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation of the body, history, and spirituality.
NIC has shown work, spoken on panels, and hosted workshops at numerous venues throughout the United States, and internationally. In 2016, they developed a web series called the Bronx Cunt Tour around their debut solo performance lil BLK for Open TV, which premiered in April, 2016. NIC Kay was a 2017 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Van Lier Fellow in New York City.
