Roberto Paci Dalò
- Composer
- Director
- Writer
Italian artist Roberto Paci Dalò belongs to the innovative exponents of
the European contemporary arts scene with projects created in music,
performing arts, visual arts and film. He lives between Rimini and
Berlin and has been recipient of the DAAD Fellowship. Since 1985
founder and director of the performing arts and production house
Giardini Pensili. Since 2006 director of Velvet Factory - a space for
sound, image, performing arts, multimedia (Rimni, Italy). His work has
won him international admiration from amongst others, John Cage and
Aleksandr Sokurov.
His projects have been presented in such venues as Kunsthalle Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Wien Modern, Musikprotokoll im Steirischer Herbst, Hebbel-Theater, Inventionen Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, D!sturbances Copenhagen, Spieltheater Munich, Intermedium 2 ZKM Karlsruhe, Bienal de Radio México, The Western Front Vancouver, Budapest Autumn Festival, Scopetone and SKIF St. Petersburg, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele, Musica Strasbourg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sonambiente Berlin, Vienna Opera House, a.o
Parallel to his music and stage work - he wrote, composed and directed about 25 theatre and music-theatre works presented worldwide - is the creation of a body of innovative film and video works regularly screened in International festivals. His hörspiele & radioworks are produced by the main European broadcasting corporations. His installations and visual arts projects are presented in Europe and Americas in museums, galleries, site specific, and the public space.
He is particularly interested in the way music and sound (from early music to new stuff) can be staged. How to visualize aethereal events. Paci Dalò is active as virtuoso performer (clarinets / electronics / sampler) also involved in collaborations and improvised music.
Border breaking collaborations include musicians Olga Neuwirth, Kronos Quartet, Alvin Curran, Philip Jeck, Burkhard Stangl, David Moss, Scanner, Terry Riley, Peter Courtemanche; poets and writers Alexandra Petrova, Predrag Matvejevic', Gabriele Frasca, Tommaso Ottonieri; philosopher Giorgio Agamben; visual artists Robert Adrian X, Maurizio Cattelan, Patrizio Esposito, Oreste Zevola, Paolo Rosa / Studio Azzurro; dancer Caterina Sagna; economist Pier Luigi Sacco.
Paci Dalò has been professor at the University of Siena (Italy) teaching Media Dramaturgy. On-going collaborations include: Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Domus Academy Milan, Universities of Urbino, Bologna, and Ascoli Piceno (Architecture Department), Universidad Claustro de Sor Juana (Mexico City).
Curator of international art projects based on telecommunication systems. Between 1991 and 1998 founder and director of LADA L'Arte dell'Ascolto, the international radio + festival which became a label in 2004. Between 1999 and 2001 curator of Itaca - the electronic stage of the Teatro di Roma - in collaboration with Mario Martone.
Artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Foundation (San Francisco), Ars Electronica FutureLab (Linz), Western Front (Vancouver), STEIM (Amsterdam), Montévidéo and GMEM (Marseille) and Maison du Spectacle La Bellone (Bruxelles), a.o.
His most recent book Pneuma. Giardini Pensili: un paesaggio sonoro has been published in 2005 by the Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone (Gorizia). His new book- edited together with Emanuele Quinz - is Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica eletttonica (Cronopio, may 2006) which includes contributions by DJ Spooky, Guy-Marc Hinant, Achim Szpeanski, a.o.
2006 projects include a series of projects based on Heiner Müller's tetxs: Greuelmärchen - sound/video installation (Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft, Berlin), Schwarzes Licht (Berlin), Roter Schnee (Berlin). Pneuma (Saint Petersburg), Elegia italiana (film), Cenere (Monfalcone), Organo laico (Reggio Emilia REC Festival). 2007: Breviario mediterraneo, a film after Predrag Matvejevic's "Meditteranean".
Paci Dalò's work is represented by Transcultures (Bruxelles), IOD (Reggio Emilia), Fondazione Morra (Naples).
His projects have been presented in such venues as Kunsthalle Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Wien Modern, Musikprotokoll im Steirischer Herbst, Hebbel-Theater, Inventionen Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, D!sturbances Copenhagen, Spieltheater Munich, Intermedium 2 ZKM Karlsruhe, Bienal de Radio México, The Western Front Vancouver, Budapest Autumn Festival, Scopetone and SKIF St. Petersburg, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele, Musica Strasbourg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sonambiente Berlin, Vienna Opera House, a.o
Parallel to his music and stage work - he wrote, composed and directed about 25 theatre and music-theatre works presented worldwide - is the creation of a body of innovative film and video works regularly screened in International festivals. His hörspiele & radioworks are produced by the main European broadcasting corporations. His installations and visual arts projects are presented in Europe and Americas in museums, galleries, site specific, and the public space.
He is particularly interested in the way music and sound (from early music to new stuff) can be staged. How to visualize aethereal events. Paci Dalò is active as virtuoso performer (clarinets / electronics / sampler) also involved in collaborations and improvised music.
Border breaking collaborations include musicians Olga Neuwirth, Kronos Quartet, Alvin Curran, Philip Jeck, Burkhard Stangl, David Moss, Scanner, Terry Riley, Peter Courtemanche; poets and writers Alexandra Petrova, Predrag Matvejevic', Gabriele Frasca, Tommaso Ottonieri; philosopher Giorgio Agamben; visual artists Robert Adrian X, Maurizio Cattelan, Patrizio Esposito, Oreste Zevola, Paolo Rosa / Studio Azzurro; dancer Caterina Sagna; economist Pier Luigi Sacco.
Paci Dalò has been professor at the University of Siena (Italy) teaching Media Dramaturgy. On-going collaborations include: Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Domus Academy Milan, Universities of Urbino, Bologna, and Ascoli Piceno (Architecture Department), Universidad Claustro de Sor Juana (Mexico City).
Curator of international art projects based on telecommunication systems. Between 1991 and 1998 founder and director of LADA L'Arte dell'Ascolto, the international radio + festival which became a label in 2004. Between 1999 and 2001 curator of Itaca - the electronic stage of the Teatro di Roma - in collaboration with Mario Martone.
Artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Foundation (San Francisco), Ars Electronica FutureLab (Linz), Western Front (Vancouver), STEIM (Amsterdam), Montévidéo and GMEM (Marseille) and Maison du Spectacle La Bellone (Bruxelles), a.o.
His most recent book Pneuma. Giardini Pensili: un paesaggio sonoro has been published in 2005 by the Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone (Gorizia). His new book- edited together with Emanuele Quinz - is Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica eletttonica (Cronopio, may 2006) which includes contributions by DJ Spooky, Guy-Marc Hinant, Achim Szpeanski, a.o.
2006 projects include a series of projects based on Heiner Müller's tetxs: Greuelmärchen - sound/video installation (Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft, Berlin), Schwarzes Licht (Berlin), Roter Schnee (Berlin). Pneuma (Saint Petersburg), Elegia italiana (film), Cenere (Monfalcone), Organo laico (Reggio Emilia REC Festival). 2007: Breviario mediterraneo, a film after Predrag Matvejevic's "Meditteranean".
Paci Dalò's work is represented by Transcultures (Bruxelles), IOD (Reggio Emilia), Fondazione Morra (Naples).