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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.

Founder and director of the performing arts group and production house Giardini Pensili. Since 2006 director of Velvet Factory - space for the arts (Rimini, Italy).
His work has won him international admiration from among others, John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov.

Recipient of the Berlin DAAD Fellowship and member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft Berlin, the band Alluro, the British Cartographic Society.

His projects have been presented in such venues as Kunsthalle Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Biennale di Venezia, Wien Modern, Galleria Civica di Modena, 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, Locarno Film Festival, Budapest Autumn Festival, Scopetone and SKIF St. Petersburg, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele, Musica Strasbourg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sonambiente Berlin, Vienna Opera House, REC Reggio Emilia, a.o.

Parallel to his music and stage work - he wrote, composed and directed about 30 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.

Main areas of work: music (from early music to new stuff) on stage, persistence of classical tradition in present time, image and sound relationship, digital culture, interaction, robotics, body languages, social design, projects for the public space & site-specific, collaborative & participatory projects. Paci Dalò is active as virtuoso performer (clarinets / electronics / sampler) also involved in collaborations and improvised music.

Border breaking collaborations include musicians Kronos Quartet, Alvin Curran, Philip Jeck, Mouse on Mars, Llorenç Barber, David Moss, Scanner, Joelle Leandre, Giorgio Magnanensi, Terry Riley, Peter Courtemanche; poets and writers Predrag Matvejevic', Levon Zekiyan, Gabriele Frasca, Tommaso Ottonieri; philosopher Giorgio Agamben; visual artists Robert Adrian X, Maurizio Cattelan, Oreste Zevola, Paolo Rosa; architects Stefano Boeri and 5+1; dramaturg Marold Langer-Philippsen; photographers Guido Guidi, Maya Pd Moslemany, Roberto Masotti; dancer Caterina Sagna; economist Pier Luigi Sacco; designers Leonardo Sonnoli, Claudio Moderini.

His collaborations with writers & poets are countless. Among the others: Yehuda Amichai, Samih al-Qasim, Lello Voce, Elisa Biagini, Mariangela Gualtieri, Tonino Guerra, Jolanda Insana, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Tiziano Scarpa, Patrizia Valduga, Sara Ventroni, Franco Buffoni.

He has also worked on texts by Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Euripides, Antonio Gramsci, Daniel Varujan, Giacomo Leopardi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and especially Heiner Müller and Emily Dickinson.
He directed actors like: Arnoldo Foà, Umberto Orsini, Franco Branciaroli, Silvio Orlando, Roberto Latini, Marcello Sambati, Enzo Moscato, Massimo Popolizio, Sandro Lombardi, Anna Bonaiuto, a.o.

Paci Dalò has been professor at the University of Siena (Italy) teaching Media Dramaturgy and New Media. On-going collaborations include: Domus Academy Milan, La Sapienza Rome, University of Bologna, UBC Vancouver, University of Newcastle / CultureLab.

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.

Recent publications include the double record Alluro; the book Pneuma. Giardini Pensili: un paesaggio sonoro; the book- edited together with Emanuele Quinz - Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica elettronica (Cronopio 2006, 2008) which includes contributions by DJ Spooky, Guy-Marc Hinant, Achim Szepanski, Christopher Cox, a.o. His latest book is Electro Scene edited with Enrico Pitozzi.
His last record is The Maya Effect (L'Arte dell'Ascolto) released with Scanner.

Paci Dalò's visual work is represented by Galerie Mario Mazzoli Berlin.

Roberto has been living in Rome, Naples, Lake Garda with residencies in Vancouver B.C. and currently lives and works in Rimini and Berlin.

Write to Roberto Paci Dalò > dalo at giardini.sm

(June 2011)

" ... The most important thing is that everything works for the music. Music indefinitely simple and beautiful. This is an opera for me! An indefintely simple, beautiful, and serious opera! "
(about the opera Auroras, Berlin Hebbel-Theater)
Giya Kancheli

“Roberto Paci Dalò’s concert at the Experimental Intermedia (NYC) was a surprise and a pleasure for me. His attention to details is exactly what we need right now. The concert was a wonderful example in the nuances intonation and in the representation of the clarinet as a solo instrument and in the joining of music to words”.
Robert Ashley

"...if the new multimedia is going anywhere at all, Paci Dalò's "Animalie" is leading the way, a truly great show!!!!"
Alvin Curran

"I enjoyed your music very much and wish you great success in your future projects. With best regards and much respect".
John Zorn

 

Roberto Paci Dalò. Selected Individual Exhibitions

2011
Venezia, Courtyards Museo Archelogico piazza San Marco, "Six Memos".
Fasano (Brindisi), Masseria Art Project, "The Conference of the Birds" and "The Color of Pomegranates", two site-specific permanent installations.

2010
Rimini, “Storie di lupi e lepri” (edition). (curated by Rosita Lappi).

2009
Napoli, Galleria Hde, “Storie di lupi e lepri” (edition). (curated by Francesca di Transo).
Napoli, PAN Palazzo delle Arti, “Atlas of Emotion Stream” (curated by Julia Draganovic).

2008
Capri, Hotel delle Palme, “Extremo Fluctus”.
Napoli, Museo Nitsch, “Nitschland Napoli”.
Milano, O', “Sottobosco".

2007
Rimini, studio zero Duomo Hotel, “Shadows”.
Firenze, Galleria SESV, “City Works” (curated by Marco Brizzi).
Terni, Cinema &/è Lavoro, “Blue Stories”, (catalogue).
Reggio Emilia, Officina per le arti, “Petróleo México”.

2006
Berlin, Deutsch-Russisches Museum, “Schwarzes Licht”.
Berlin, Lichtenberg, “Greuelmärchen”, (catalogue) (curated by Klaudia Ruschkowski and Wolfgang Storch).

2004
Bolzano, EURAC, “Scala temporale” (in collaboration with Paolo Rosa / Studio Azzurro), (curated by Annelie Bortolotti).
Gambettola, Il Laboratorio dell'imperfetto, “Tremante omaggio”.
Genova, Museo d'arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, “Filmnero” (curated by Ugo Pitozzi).

2003
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, “Sound as generative space” (in collaboration with Luca Ruzza).

2002
Bruxelles, Flagey, “EMN40”.
Jesenice, Gornjesavski Muzej (SLO), "L'ombra di Jesenice".

2001
Bruxelles, Les Brigittines, Netdays, "Code Files Remix", (in collaboration with Lab[au]), (curated by Philippe Franck).

2000
Napoli, Studio Morra, "Napoli".

1999
Colonia, Deutzer Brücke, "Napoli".

1996
Berlino, SFB Lichthof, "OZ" (curated by Manfred Mixner).
Palermo, Spasimo, "In sospensione" (in collaboration with Salvo Cuccia and Gianni Gebbia).

1994
Berlin, Podewil, "Napoli"(curated by Matthias Osterwold).
Vienna, Alte Schmiede, "Napoli".
Bologna, Link, "Napoli".

1992
Bologna, Galleria Neon, "Roberto Paci Dalò".
Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, "Niemandsland".

1986
Milano, Galleria Decalage, "Lavori recenti".

Roberto Paci Daò. Selected Group Exhbitions

2011
Bologna Art First (curated by Julia Drganovic, catalogue)

2010
Modena, Galleria Civica di Modena, Lo spazio del sacro (curated by Marco Pierini, catalogue).

2009
Copenhagen, Morten Poulsen Gallery, "Emergency Room", (curated by Thierry Geoffrey).
Amsterdam Biennale (curated by Diana Marrone).
Napoli, PAN Palazzo delle arti, “Emergency Room”.(curated by Thierry Geoffrey).
Napoli, Chiamata all'arte Largo Baracche Project”.

2008
Lugo, Rocca, “Selvatico 6”, (catalogue) (curated by Massimiliano Fabbri).

2007
Venezia, Biennale, “Joseph Beuys Difesa della natura”.

2003
Napoli, Quadriennale di Roma, (catalogue).
Napoli, Castel Sant'Elmo, "Theater: labirinti dell'immaginario", (catalogue). (curated by Lorenzo Mango and Peppe Morra)
Mons, "City Sonics" (curated by Philippe Franck).
Copenhagen, "Exhibition Hall, “d!sturbances".

2002
Bruxelles, Flagey, "Musiques Nouvelles".

2000
Parigi, Espace Electra, "paesaggio italiano", (catalogue) (curated by MariaGrazia Torri)

1999
Benevento, "Benevento SoundFiction". (curated by Giordano Montecchi).
Roma, Opera Paese, "congedi".
"Palermo, Orto botanico, “Nuovo paesaggio italiano". (curated by Maria Grazia Torri).

1998
Linz, "Ars Electronica"., (catalogue).
Milano, Spazio Consolo, "paesaggio italiano", (curated by Maria Grazia Torri).
Fermignano Pesaro, Galleria Bramante, "Paesaggio italiano". (curated by Maria Grazia Torri).
Catania, Ex-macello, "Mappe", (catalogue).

1997
Linz, "Ars Electronica", (catalogo).
Reggio Emilia, Ex-stalloni, "Silenzio", (catalogo) (curated by Valerio Dehò).

1996
Linz, "Ars Electronica", (catalogue).

1995
Santarcangelo di Romagna, Palazzo Cesi, "95", (catalogo).
1994
Hall in Tirol, Kunsthalle, "" (catalogue / cd-rom).
Civitella d'Agliano, "Progetto Civitella d'Agliano".

1993
Cracovia , "Art Festival".
Nantes , "Allumées", (catalogue).

1992
Borgo Valsugana, “Artesella", (catalogue).
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, "Die Geometrie des Schweigens", (catalogo).

1987
Roma, Lavatoio contumaciale, "Pitture e partiture" (curated by Filiberto Menna)
Acquasparta, Palazzo Cesi, "Opera Prima" (curated by Lorenzo Mango)