Vidéo de la performence de Red Coat « Same Skin for Everybody » à l'ICC et à l'UIA, à Anvers, en 1976
Durée : 00:21:43 mins 
documentation vidéo

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

« Je voyage avec cette valise. Dans cette valise, il y a un manteau. C’est un manteau pour onze personnes, et je demande aux gens dans la rue d’habiter ce manteau… Ça marche différemment selon les pays, les villes et ma propre forme quand je fais cette expérience, et des gens qui, à priori, ne sont pas disponibles, quelques fois restent, après cette expérience, une demi-heure, une heure ensemble… et sans ce manteau, ils ne se seraient pas connus, ils n’auraient pas… enfin, [sans] cette expérience…ne les aurait pas fait se rencontrer… » 

Nicola L. 

*citation tirée de l'interview à la fin de la vidéo

Regardez Red Coat « Same Skin for Everybody » (1969-1976), performances réalisées à l'île de Wight, à Paris, à Flaine, à Gand et à Anvers, et découvrez-en davantage sur Red Coat en cliquant sur l'icône ci-dessus  ↑ ou sur le lien suivant : 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

Pour l’une de ses performances à Bruxelles en 1970, elle a collaboré avec le Plan K. pour organiser un flash mob. Celle-ci mettait en scène quatre personnes portant chacune une œuvre de la série Pénétrables au milieu du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Dans l’une des scènes, ils se déplaçaient par deux, accompagnés de bruits et de cris, roulant au sol à la verticale avant de se redresser.  Nicola avait pensé cette performance comme une action de guérilla urbaine et espérait l’intervention de la police. Celle-ci n’étant pas venue, elle a conduit le groupe de performeurs dévêtus vers le métro pour y poursuivre la provocation. Les performeurs se déplaçaient au milieu de la foule, dansant et touchant parfois les passants.^[*] 

^[*] Lisez l'intégralité de l'essai d'Annosh Urbanke ici !

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

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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

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"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.”

Bad Brains at CBGB: My Picture in your Movie Baby is a documentary about the Washington DC punk band Bad Brains. In 1980, Nicola makes her first documentary film about the punk band Bad Brains. Later, she makes a docu on the anarchist anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman, recording his first interview after seven years in hiding. 

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 
duration: 00:21:01 mins
16mm film to digital

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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
 

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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.