SCOTT HOCKING

  CV - BIO - BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Contact Info and Links
   
  -- SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS & PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS --
  Vicksburg-Voltri (2023)
  Floating Citadel (2022)
  Detroit Stories: Retrospective at Cranbrook Art Museum (2022-23)
  Hocking Retrograde (2022-23)
  Nike Of The Strait (2020-21)
  Kayaking Through The Quarantimes (2020-21)
  Arkansas Traveler (2020)
  Bone Black (2019)
  Seventeen Shitty Mountains, Vol 2 (2019)
  Seventeen Shitty Mountains, Vol 1 (2018)
  The Sleeper / Cowcatcher (2018)
  OLD (2018)
  Hanging Cairn (2017)
  Massa Confusa (2017)
  RCA (2016)
  Babel (2015-2016)
  Celestial Ship of the North (Emergency Ark) AKA the Barnboat (2015)
  SIGNS (2015-present)
  Narcissus Incorporated (2015)
  Lot Circles (2014-present)
  Rustic Sputnik (2016) / Rusty Sputnik (2013)
  Coronal Mass Ejection (2013)
  The Egg and Michigan Central Train Station (2007-2013)
  Mercury Retrograde (2012)
  The End of the World (2012)
  The Quarry / Steinbruch (2013)
  The Secrets of Nature (2012-2014)
  Garden of the Gods (2009-2011)
  Tartarus (2011)
  Triumph of Death (2010)
  Sisyphus and the Voice of Space (2010)
  New Mound City (2010)
  Ziggurat and Fisher Body 21 (2007-2009)
  Roosevelt Warehouse and the Cauldron (2007-2010)
  Cast Concrete in the Auto Age (2008-present)
  Fountain of Youth Vending Machine (2008-2010)
  Lao Zhu and the Flour Factory (2009)
  Detroit Midden Mound (2008)
  Tire Pyramid (2006)
  Animals (2006)
  Icelandic Saga (2006)
  RELICS (2001-2023)
  SISYPHEAN INFINITY (2000)
  2,222 (1998)
   
  -- VIDEOS AND FILM PROJECTS --
   
  -- ONGOING DETROIT-BASED PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES' --
  In The Strait Of The Crimson Nain (2007-present)
  Detroit Nights (2007-present)
  Shipwrecks (1999-present)
  Delrazed (2007-present)
  Mid Century Modern Playground Sculptures (2007-present)
  Kayaking The Rouge / Kayaking Detroit (2016-present)
  Bad Graffiti (2007-present)
  Buffed Detroit (2012-present)
  Scenes From The Railroad (1999-present)
  The Mound Project (2007-present)
  The Zone (1999-present)
  Service Stations (2007-present)
  Holes (2007-present)
  Memorials (2007-present)
  Wildlife (2007-present)
  Scrappers (2000-2004)
  Found Slides (2000-2004)
  Pictures of a City - Detroit (1997-2006)
   
  -- DRAWINGS, SCULPTURES & OLDER WORKS --
  Alchemical Works and Drawings (1997-present)
   
   
   
 

FLOATING CITADEL was commissioned by the Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority Art Foundation and permanently installed in front of Huntington Place (formerly Cobo Hall) in downtown Detroit. The 11-foot-diameter bronze was fabricated by Bollinger Atelier and is based on digital models of original sculptures created in various forms and materials since 1999, when I took a rubber mold of an East Jordan Iron Works domed sewer grate that I borrowed from the front lawn of Ford’s Fairlane Estate. Floating Citadel is installed only feet away from the “Citadel of Detroit,” the original, defensive walled fortifications of the city. The sculpture is located just north of the original Detroit River shoreline, and just south of the former Savoyard Creek, an ancient waterway turned into the city’s first enclosed sewer, dubbed “The Grand Sewer,” which still flows under what is now Huntington Place. Inspired by my copper mining ancestors and Michigan’s copper and iron ore history, the verdigris patinaed spherical form is based on celestial bod- ies, globes, orbs, astrolabes, shells, cages, drains, filters, thresholds, mystic symbols, ancient artifacts, “float copper,” and human skeletons—specifically the idea of rib cages, which protect life, but also trap us on the earthly plane. Affectionately nicknamed the “Sewer Sphere” and the “Cobo Ball,” the work comments on the dualistic state of the Earth, while being both a global, terrestrial object, and yet an ascending, spiritual form.

                                                  CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO INDEX