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Satch Hoyt

Satch Hoyt, born in London of British and African-Jamaican ancestry, is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist whose work includes installations and sculptures accompanied with sound, music, performance and painting.

Early Life

As a youth growing up in the Caribbean community of Ladbroke Grove, London- Hoyt was mentored by leading activist and filmmaker Horace Ové. He cites his early music mentor/teachers as Mongezi Feza and Louis Moholo, who were both political exiles from apartheid South Africa. Hoyt states that he was an activist before he was an artist, traveling extensively in Asia, North America and the Caribbean and lived in Mombasa Kenya for 2 years, where he made music with a variety of local and Congolese musicians.

Career

Hoyt had an early career in the theatre. As a young teenager he performed and toured in the musical "Hair" alongside Dona Summer- after which his focus was primarily music-composing, recording and performing with artists such as; Grace Jones, Stomu Yamashta, Bebel Gilberto and Louis Bourgeois. Hoyt's musical history spans two decades and three continents Africa, Europe and North America. He received recording contracts with Warner Brothers London and BMG Paris, was commissioned to compose music for 'A Hole in Babylon' a film by Horace Ové and is a member of “Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber” and “The Bakol”.

Whilst in Paris Hoyt made the transition to the visual arts and in 1999 moved to NYC which is where his work received critical attention when his audience participatory installation, "The Shrine: The 27 brides of the black president", was included in the exhibition "Fela: The life and legacy of a black president", curated by Trevor Schoonmaker at the New Museum in NYC 2003. Hoyt garnered further critical acclaim with his work "Say it Loud!” an interactive installation and literal platform for uncensored expression that investigates the concept of freedom of speech."Say it Loud!" has been exhibited in "Infinite Island - Contemporary Caribbean Art", Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2007 and "Radical Presence - Black Performance in Contemporary Art", Contemporary Art Museum Houston, 2012

Hoyts recent work mines what he has termed the "Afro-Sonic Signifier ". The term Afro-sonic signifier is understood to be the cosmic atman, the soul companion during the forced migration of the middle passage. He argues that this mnemonic network of sound is a significant element that has kept the transnational African diaspora intact. Through research of African diaspora histories, mythologies and cosmologies he employs a plethora of materials and found objects such as boxing gloves, raw cotton, police batons, drum sticks, bullwhips, burnt electric guitars, used 1970’s tennis racquets, 45 rpm vinyl records and guitar plectrums, as well as drawings and paintings. These works are accompanied by self composed sonic texts (soundscapes): a form of sonic cartography to map out historical and fantastical Afro-futuristic Black Atlantic journeys - voyages from Slave ship to Spaceship. Through research, narrative, imagination, myth and fantasy he perseveres to contribute to the ongoing construction of a new all-inclusive Black cultural identity.

Hoyts current, large scale, global mapping project, “Afro-Sonic Mapping” seeks to trace the migrations of the Afro-Sonic signifier and understand its transfer through the black Atlantic passage. Sonic Mapping is a method developed by Satch Hoyt, based in research of the earliest factual recorded polyphonic and polyrhythmic sounds from the continent of Africa, and further tracing these sonic threads through the middle passage chapters and into our current post-colonial epoch. This method becomes a tool to perceive and understand the existence and migrations of the Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier. Sonic Mapping links the unchartered waters of anthropological field recordings to the contemporary urban frequencies of London, Kingston, Bahia, New Orleans, New York and Los Angeles.

Exhibitions

2017 Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, USA

2017 Unpacking Sonic Migrations: From Slave Ship to Space Ship: Every Time A Ear di Soun, a documenta 14 Radio Program, Documenta 14

2016 German Colonialism: Fragments Past and Present, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

2015 Hip Hop, L’Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

2014 The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

2014 1st Cartagena Biennial, Cartagena, Colombia

2013 Rehearsal, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah USA

2013 Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA;

2013 Grey Art Gallery New York University, New York, USA

2012 Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Kazerne Dossin Museum, Mechelen, Belgium

2011 The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

2011 Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2011 The Art Is A Combat Sport, Museum of Fine Arts, Calais, France

2010 The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, USA

2010 The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

2009 The San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008 Building Bridges, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2007 For Love of Sugar, St. Paul's Cathedral, London, U.K.

2007 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

2007 Black Light White Noise, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA

2007 Equatorial Rhythms, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

2006 Black Panther Rank and File, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

2005 Rundlederwelten, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2004 Tate Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K.

2003 Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA; Barbican Art Gallery, London, U.K.; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

Bibliography

2015 Krista A. Thompson, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice, Duke University Press, USA

2014 Franklin Sirmans, Carlos Rolon (Ed.), Boxed: A Visual History of the Art of Boxing, published by Damiani /Paul Kasmin Gallery

2014 Satch Hoyt & Anna Schrade: A Choreographed Dance, Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (Ed.), The Space Between Us, Kerber Verlag, Berlin, Germany

2011 Terry Smith, Contemporary Art, World Currents, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA

2011 Bonadventure Ndikung, Nomadic Settlers, Settled Nomads, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2010 Satch Hoyt, Hybrid Navigator, Small Axe 14:2, An issue of: Small Axe:A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Number: 32, Duke University Press, USA

2009 Jens Hoffmann, 2nd Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, ICP, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008 Charles Stone, Satch Hoyt: A command of many medi-ums, The International Review of African American Art, Hampton University Press, USA

2007 Greg Tate, In Praise Of Shadow Boxing (Punchdrunk Love), Editions Pasnic Paris

2007 Claire Tancons, Breathing In The Beat Box: Rhyming and the Ring, About Satch Hoyt on Boxing as Poetry, Editions Pasnic Paris

2005 Franklin Sirmans, Rundlederwelten, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2003 Trevor Schoonmaker (Ed.), Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

2003 Holland Cotter, King of Music and All He Surveyed, The New York Times, July, New York, USA

2002 Andrea Jahn, Body Power/Power Play, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2002 Helen Allen, SportCult, apexart, New York; Flash Art Inter-national, November/December, New York, USA

2002 Franklin Sirmans, SportCult, apexart, New York, Time Out, October, New York, USA

External Links

https://www.satchhoyt.art/

http://nasher.duke.edu/therecord/hoyt-satch.php

http://burntsugarindex.com/artist/satch-hoyt/

http://radicalpresenceny.org/?page_id=343

https://vimeo.com/121354366

https://player.vimeo.com/video/212923833

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBGB6QV5Ag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aECSBN4dxCk

http://flippingthecoin.de/kat/records/artist/satch-hoyt/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/559089-Satch-Hoyt