On a single wall, as if the three-dimensional space of a bedroom had been flattened onto it: Each drawer conceals a small speaker: when a drawer is opened, a voice emanates; when it is closed, it is silenced. The drawers are programmed to be opened and shut in a specific order. Each drawer is associated […]
My first crush was on the knife. It made the fork look like an artless rake; the spoon was just plain pathetic. Now you may think I was perhaps projecting my daughterly love for my father onto the knife, but my father was a fat ugly bastard, and I knew that as soon as I
BLADE (a prose poem, 2017) View Work »
Oct 29, 2025 It’s a place of residence. Viscerally, first and foremost, the White House is a place of residence. In destroying a place of residence—a temporary place of residence where people, who are granted permission, live while serving their terms as a servant of the people—a visceral message is being sent to everyone: You
Why the Demolishment of the East Wing of the White House? View Work »
I am a prodigious dreamer. I have notebooks filled with them. They have guided and shaped my life as much as anything I have learned in books, or discovered through experience, or acquired by diligence. They are some of my proudest “possessions,” my most treasured gifts, and they are invisible to everyone else, difficult to
excerpt | Who Remains: Part 1, Chapter 3 – THE END OF TIME View Work »
What follows really happened. On the bus ride home from my painting studio, one misty February evening in Bologna, I noticed a solitary Asian woman wearing a surgical mask. I tried to make eye contact with her, but she seemed to be trying to be invisible. I thought it was odd. Her manner was furtive,
excerpt | Who Remains: Part 1, Chapter 1 – THE VERY BEGINNING View Work »
About seven or eight years before the lockdown, there were signs and changes in Ciulli’s behavior and personality—some remarkable only in retrospect, others shocking at the moment they were happening. Writing this thought in a sentence, using familiar words and idioms, following rules of grammar and punctuation, belies the mayhem and isolation that comes with
excerpt | Who Remains: Part 1, Chapter 2 – NAMING View Work »
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 View Work »
[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 View Work »
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 View Work »
“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 After the
performances | DIARY OF A YOUNG BOAT in Bologna View Work »
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
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For now, two of the three triptychs envisioned have been completed, and one ballad, entitled “Punishment of the Fathers,” has been recorded in collaboration with composer Joshua Haugen, with voice direction and audio editing by Irene Ruscelli. Punishment of the FathersI see my father as a child, somewhere around four or five,fat-faced, greasy and already
The Horror Autotoxicus | TWO TRIPTYCHS View Work »
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 View Work »