NICOLA L .

Nicola is a conceptual artist who does film and performances. In 1969, she performed "The Red Coat for Eleven People" at the Festival of the Isle of White, with Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, and continued to perform "The RedCoat" or "Same Skin for Everybody" in the streets of London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Paris, Barcelona and New York.

In the 70s, she began her collaboration with Michael Warren Powell and they developed various experimental projects in Ibiza and Paris. Nicola also began working with Copi, Victor Garcia and Jerome Savari. From 1975 to 1986 she focused on film. The first of which was titled, "The Heads are Still in the Island," shot in 35mm on Ibiza with Terry Thomas and Michael Warren Powell. In 1976, she directed a film about the Basque Movement, "Eva Forest."

In 1979, she moved to New York where she shot "Bad Brains at CBGB" in 1980, and in 1981, a documentary portrait of "Abbie Hoffman" which was shown on PBS. Later from 1982 to 1985 she wrote, "The Movement" from interviews with Noam Chomsky, Bill Kunstler, Dave Dillenger, Kate Millet, Stokley Carmichael and others.

In 1986, she went back to her roots of conceptual and functional art, and was exhibited at Florida International University, Mukha Museum (Antwerpen), Vrej Baghoomian Gallery (NYC), Peder Bonnier (NYC), Thread Waxing Space (NYC), Galerie Lara Vincy (Paris), Nice Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Center of Contempary Art (Grenoble).

In 1992, Nicola performed "Same Skin for Everybody with Fernando Arrabal in the streets of New York for Antenne 2. By 1995, she went back to film and wrote and directed, "Sand, Sea, Sky," produced by Karina Werner Jakobi.

Nicola began her relationship with LA MAMA in 1968 when Elaine Stewart invited her to perform a piece entitled "The Cylinder," (with text by Copi). Her last two performances were in 1996 at the Museum of Nice and at LA MAMA (Nine Femmes Fatales in their own words). For this piece she worked with Michael Warren Powell and the Lab Theater of New York. Since 1986, she has focused on the theme of the "Head." Ted Castle, in a review, commented that, "the work, in all the medium Nicola has been doing for years, culminates in the celebration of La Tete, the location of the spirit, the imagination and the memory..." The artist believes that with this new performance, "The Banquet of the Beheaded," she is closing the chapter on her exploration of the significance of the head through this last supper.