Afloat on Hikosaka’s Sea

Lou Mallozzi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator in Chicago. He dismantles and reconstitutes gesture, sound, image, and language to poetically destabilize our relationships with the familiar through performances, installations, interventions, fixed media works, improvised music, drawings, and collaborations. He has exhibited and performed at many venues in the US and Europe, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, Experimental Intermedia in New York, Radiorevolten Festival in Halle, and many others. Mallozzi co-founded Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago in 1986 and for the next 30 years facilitated the presentation of exploratory sonic art works by more than 500 artists. He is a professor in the Department of Art + Technology / Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2019 he has been researching nonmusical approaches to sound in the work of several postwar Japanese artists.