Satch Hoyt

27 Feb 2024

With an opening performance from Moor Mother (DJ Set).

Satch Hoyt, born in London of British and African-Jamaican ancestry, is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He makes sculptures and installations accompanied with sound, as well as paintings and drawings. There is a dichotomy in the genres that define two sides of the same coin: a dual and complementary reflection on the African Diaspora and its multi-fold consequences. The sculptural trope in Hoyt’s work addresses the facts on the ground, so to speak, of black experience, while the drawings tap into a spirit of fantasy, refuge, and transcendence - they are vehicles for an imaginative journey beyond the obduracy and oppressiveness of history. 

With regards to his musical accomplishments Satch Hoyt has composed a number of songs with Grace Jones; noteworthy, is ‘7 Day Weekend’ which is on the triple platinum soundtrack album of the Eddie Murphy movie ‘Boomerang’. Hoyt played flute on Louise Bourgeois’ ‘OTTE’, and is flautist - percussionist in Burt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber since 2001.

Hoyt has sung and played on numerous recordings and has recently recorded a new album in Berlin, ‘Battlefields Of Peace’, under the pseudonym Pharaoh Dreams, which includes guest musicians Julia Kent (Anthony and the Johnsons), Cass Lewis (Skunk Anansie), Earl Harvin (Me’shell Ndegocello) and Dave Smoota Smith (TV On The Radio). The album is co-written and co-produced with Dirk Leyers.

For this special performance at Phoenix Central Park, Hoyt will be performing electric processed flute, acoustic flutes, acoustic and electric percussion, and spoken word.

Header image: Dale Grant

Satch Hoyt is supported by the Goethe-Institut.

Performances

Performances

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 6:30pm & 8:15pm

Location

Phoenix Central Park
49 O'Connor St, Chippendale

Tickets

Free, by ballot only

Strobe lighting and other intense lighting may be used
Haze may be used

Ballot closed

Ballot draw date: Saturday 24 February 2024

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