A graduate of Ecole nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon (2006), Nicolas Garait-Leavenworth works using historical archives and resurgent images.
He is staging a lecture-performance designed using sound, visual, architectural and arts archives from the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair that opened 5 months after the assassination of John Kennedy, hunched back on the commercial ruins of the American Dream and ignoring an increasingly active counter-culture.
The long-term project Understanding through Peace is based on the contradictory cultural climate around the New York World’s Fair from its design to its advertising—dreams going as far as a utopia that it could not attain.
With the support of Enba Lyon.
