For the 52nd Suzzara Prize, 118 international artists were selected to participate in the juried show, entitled REFLECTIONS OF HELL: WAR IN THE MIRROR OF ART. One grand prize was selected by the jury as well as five honorable mentions, including AM Hoch’s oil on canvas, Untitled.
Exhibition | REFLECTIONS OF HELL: WAR IN THE MIRROR OF ART Read Post »
[Per la traduzione italiana, clicca qui.] The Diary of a Young Boat is a kind of interdimensional radio play—sometimes with and sometimes without any actual radios involved. The shape-shifting forms this ongoing series takes reflect its embedded narrative: the fictional aural diary of a pubescent girl who miraculously transforms into a boat. The installations in this
project | DIARY OF A YOUNG BOAT Read Post »
THEATER IN THE CLOUD is a forum for exploring new genres in audio plays, internet theater and online literary forms. There is a startling, subversive element in art forms that infiltrate our private spheres—such as radio plays and new internet art forms—or embed themselves unexpectedly in public spaces—such as urban interventions and site-specific theater—impacting our lives in visceral, subliminal ways. Suddenly, in familiar places,
audio | THEATER IN THE CLOUD Read Post »
“Few cities in Italy have undergone such a deep metamorphosis as Bologna over the years: from a ‘water city’, it has gradually evolved into a ‘land city’. Few visitors today would think that in the past centuries it was known as Little Venice. . . .” —Discovering Bologna and Its Waters, by Cecilia Ugolini Since the
installation | DIARY OF A YOUNG BOAT in Bologna Read Post »
Portraits of Piergiorgio Self-portraits of an Ashen Caregiver Flying Beds Crossing the River After the Last Breath
In 2009, having completed the text for Diary of a Young Boat, I began exploring the visual components of this piece, using discarded household objects such as mirrors, ladders, umbrellas, ropes and string in floating, multimedia pieces that incorporated the surrounding space. Ultimately, these suspended sculpture/paintings led to the Metamorfosi di una barca (2011), a site-specific installation of
installation | METAMORFOSI DI UNA BARCA Read Post »
The Horror Autotoxicus is an ongoing interdisciplinary series by AM Hoch including paintings on canvas, original text and horror ballads, which will ultimately be combined in installations and film. For now, two of the three triptychs envisioned have been completed, and one ballad, entitled “The Punishment of the Fathers,” has been recorded in collaboration with composer Joshua
The Horror Autotoxicus | TWO TRIPTYCHS Read Post »
A JOYFUL TRAGEDYA conversation about the book version of Diary of a Young BoatAM Hoch and Wallace ShawnA video by filmmaker Germano Maccioni
conversation-video | DIARY OF A YOUNG BOAT Read Post »
The fictional aural diary of a thirteen-year-old girl is at the heart of AM Hoch’s award-winning series of installations. Originally conceived as an interdimensional radio play, the Diary is now available in book form.ENGLISH version available on amazon.com, edizioni.intra.proITALIAN version available on amazon.it, edizioni.intra.pro Published by Edizioni Intra edizioni.intra.proForeword by Wallace ShawnAfterword by Pasquale Verdicchio
book | DIARY OF A YOUNG BOAT Read Post »