Video of the performances of Red Coat “Same Skin for Everybody” in het ICC & UIA, Antwerp, 1976
Duration: 00:21:43 mins 
video documentation

M HKA, Archive of Internationaal Cultureel Centrum (ICC), [International Cultural Centre], Antwerp © Nicola L. Collection & Archive

‘I travel with this suitcase. Inside this suitcase, there’s a coat. It’s a coat for eleven people, and I ask people in the street to step inside this coat… It works differently depending on the country, the city and my own state of mind when I carry out this experiment, and people who, at first glance, aren’t available, sometimes stay, after this experiment, for half an hour, an hour together… and without this coat, they wouldn’t have met, they wouldn’t have… well, [without] this experiment… it wouldn’t have brought them together…” 

Nicola L. ^[*] 

*quote taken from the interview at the end of the video

Watch Red Coat “Same Skin for Everybody”, 1969-1976, Performances in Isle of Wight, Paris, Flaine, Ghent, and Antwerp and learn more about Red Coat by clicking on the icon above  ↑ or on the following link Red Coat 

Nicola L, Penetrable Performances in Brussels, Belgium 1970, (at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (“Action-pirate”), in the Saint-Hubert Galleries, Bruxeiles, and in the metro)
duration: 00:13:25 mins
video documentation
 
Courtesy Nicola L. Collection & Archive and Alison Jacques © Nicola L. Collection & Archive
 

In Brussels in 1970, Nicola L. collaborated for one of her performances with Plan K. Staged as a flash mob performance, four people each wear one work from the Pénétrable series in the midst of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In a scene, they move in pairs, accompanied by sounds and shouts, rolling on the ground in a vertical position and standing up.  Nicola planned it as a guerrilla performance and hoped for the police to arrive, which didn’t happen, so she led the group of undressed performers to the subway to continue the provocation. The performers moved through the crowd, dancing and at times touching people.^[*] 

^[*] Read the full essay by Annosh Urbanke here!

Nicola L, Penetrables: Red Coat Beach Performance, 1975 
duration: 00:11:08 mins
film to digital

Courtesy Nicola L. Collection & Archive and Alison Jacques © Nicola L. Collection & Archive

In 1975, on the beach of Ibiza, Nicola L. filmed a performance featuring her Penetrables and Red Coat.

Nicola L., Bad Brains at CBGB, 1980
duration: 00:14:48 mins
Super-8 film to digital

Courtesy Nicola L. Collection & Archive and Alison Jacques © Nicola L. Collection & Archive
 

"They are so young, angry — the first time I've seen this angry since the ‘60s, since Jimi Hendrix’. 

Nicola L.

In the 1980s, Nicola L. and her son Christophe Lanzenberg stumbled into the famous club CBGB in New York and were mesmerized by the ecstatic energy that the punk band Bad Brains brought to the stage, as she describes in her Memoir. Nicola decided she wanted to film them. After getting in touch with the band and then losing contact, she checked The Village Voice for announcements of upcoming shows. After spotting a listing, she spontaneously managed to film their live performance at CBGB. Combined with footage of the streets of New York and shots from different camera angles throughout the venue, focused both on the stage and the crowd, she creates a multilayered portrait of the raw energy that Bad Brains brought to the club.
In 1985, she continued producing and directing concert films of Bad Brains at the Rock Hotel in NYC. There, she produced and directed live recordings of the songs “Re-Ignition” and “Rock for Light.”
 

Credits:
Camera: Sylvain Catta
Chris Lanzenberg
Shot at C.B.G.B’s New York            
Sound: Bruce Tovsky                                     
Mixing: Dominick Tavella
Laboratory: Du Art Film Lab
Editor: Rick Feist
Produced by Mo. Sussman and Nicola L.
Singer: H.R.
Lead Guitarist: Dr. Know
Bassist Darryl Jennifer
Drummer: Earl Hudson

Nicola L., Sand, Sea, Sky, 1994 
duur: 00:21:01 mins
16 mm-film naar digitaal

Courtesy Nicola L. Collection & Archive and Alison Jacques © Nicola L. Collection & Archive
 

Sand, Sea, Sky presents the Pénétrables as activated elements merging with the landscape, linking humanity and nature through themes of Earth, spirituality and indigenous-inspired rituals. Filmed in the Bahamas, it creates mythical narratives around natural forces such as the sea and fire to imagine a unity between humans and the environment.
The ethos and representational modes associated with this approach have been revisited from a range of perspectives in recent decades. While the film is a work of fiction, it can also be viewed as a record of a particular moment in Nicola's practice, presenting many of her sculptures as actors and props within the context in which the film was created, reflecting both the aspirations and contradictions of its time and Nicola L.’s commitment to freedom, love and equality.
 

Credits:
Director of photography: Christophe Lanzenberg
Writer: Nicola
Voice: Joaquim de Almeida
Executive producer: Karina Werner-Jakobi
Producer: Marc Hagins
Editor: Ruth Schell
Music: Achim Gieseler
Costumes & makeup: Karina Werner-Jakobi
Sculptures: Nicola
Assistant camera: David Lanzenberg
Assistant director: Johan Falkman, Solange Marquis
Sound mix edite: David Behuniak
Still photographer: Michael Garff
Assistant editor: Maia Wechsler 
Assistant to the producer: Charles Smith III
Production Assistants: Gerard Knowles, Ethan Clarke, Craig Woods, Garnell Johnson, Sherwin Miller, Phillip Swann
Ocean People: Shane Roller, Neville Stephens, David Burrows, Sherwin McCourteney, Pheron Moss, Larry Stark
Fire People, Lead dancer Buttercup
Dancers: Princess Nesbitt, Valery MC Queen
Forest People: Garnell Johnson, Prince Johnson, Grec
Drummers: William Deveaux, Franklin Ferguson, Anthony Rowe
Film Laboratory: Technicolor
Offline facility: IMAGE MIX
Online facility: IMAGE Group Post
Colorist: Rob Minelli
Special thanks: Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Benjamin Pratt, Paradise Harbour Club, Columbus Tavern, Steven Darvius, Shawn, Asst. Boat Capt, Divers Heaven, Michael Buckner and everyone who helped make SAND SEA SKY possible

Nicola L., Doors Ajar at the Chelsea Hotel (2013)
duration: 1:13:27
film to digital

Courtesy Nicola L. Collection & Archive and Alison Jacques © Nicola L. Collection & Archive
 

The Chelsea Hotel played a major role in Nicola L.’s artistic life. After visiting the hotel several times during the 1960s and becoming closely connected to its residents and vibrant art scene, she moved into the Chelsea Hotel in 1988, where she lived for the final decades of her life.
In 2007, the Chelsea Hotel was sold, with plans to transform it into a luxury hotel. In the years that followed, many residents were legally forced out, bought out, or chose to leave. Until 2017, behind zipped-up protective plastic meant to keep out construction dust, the doors to the last remaining apartments were hidden.
In 2012, Nicola L. turned the spotlight onto these final residents in her film Doors Ajar at the Chelsea Hotel. “I have opened my doors to all kind of survivors, most of them artist,” says the narrated and personified Chelsea Hotel, voiced by actress Sylvia Miles. The film captures the atmosphere and energy of the hotel’s final years through narration, interviews with remaining residents, and performances by Nicola L.
 

Doors Ajar At The Chelsea hotel Full – 
A 23 CHELSEA production
In association with PRETTY PICTURES
Producer: Sarah Françoise
Executive producer: James Velaise, Nicola L.
Cinematography: John Busch
Additional photography by Don Lenzer
Edited by Thomas Dexter
Assistant editor: Penny Folger
Written and directed by Nicola L. 
Gratitude to Don Lenzer for the Additional Photography
Additional Photography by Oliver Lanzenberg, Michael Kasino
Location Sound by Gillian Arthur
Additional Sound by John Bosch
Additional music by Timothy Day
“Chelsea Women’s Dinner” and “The Cape of the Chelsea Ghosts” perfomances by Nicola L.