[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 […]
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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,
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“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
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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
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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
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The Horror Autotoxicus was the name given to autoimmune disease by the German scientist Paul Ehrlich, who discovered it back in the 19th century. The name conjures up a primordial terror, a monstrous thumping force; it feels apt to me. In diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, the body attacks its own—its own cells, its own
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Though I’ve drawn and painted many versions of entwined pairs, I haven’t come close to exhausting my fascination with the visual representation of twisted couples; the grandest or most horrific schemes come down to two people in a room at some point, acting out primal dramas. In 2017 I was commissioned to paint something for the EPHESO
Many years ago, I began an ongoing series about couples—some real, some imagined, some famous, some very personal. Couples—romantic, platonic or familial—can be as mesmerizing as swirling eddies or as transfixing as a car wreck. The way two beings become entwined has been explored in psychology, literature, music and film, but much less so in painting. I haven’t come close to exhausting my fascination with the visual representation of entangled couples.
In the Mitosis series, I used the process of cellular division as a metaphor to describe in an ironic, coded way “the process of individuation”—that is, a wry portrait of growing up in a family steeped in secrets, deceit, and denial. The image of the chromosome and references to mitosis are woven throughout these installations.
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