On the O+ Radio Hour at 8pm on Radio Kingston, host Aimee Gardner will be speaking with Mark Hogancamp.
Mark Hogancamp is an artist and creator of Welcome to Marwencol. In 2000, Mark was attacked outside of a Kingston, New York bar by five men who beat him nearly to death. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, He was discharged with brain damage that left him little memory of his previous life. Unable to afford therapy, he created his own - Marwencol, a 1/6 scale, WWII-era Belgian village which is populated with dolls representing himself, his friends, and his attackers. Here, he stages and photographs complex narratives of Nazi intrigue, lesbian melodrama, and heroics. With his immense cast of dolls, Mark freely intermixes history and fantasy narratives related to his attack and recovery, allowing Kurt Russell to confront Goebbels, time-traveling witches to antagonize Hitler, and Mark himself to battle personal demons.
Mark's photographs debuted in ESOPUS 5 in 2005, and he was the subject of Jeff Malmberg’s critically acclaimed documentary Marwencol in 2010. Then in 2018, Robert Zemeckis released the feature film Welcome to Marwen based on Hogancamp’s life, staring Steve Carell and Janelle Monae, among others. Recently, Mark had a show called Renaissance at the One Mile Gallery in Kingston and celebrated his birthday, as well as being “reborn” that day April 8, 2000.
In addition to this conversation, you will hear music from @ninasimone @venus_hum_band @radiohead and @janellemonae feat. @solangeknowles
