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"Very excited that Alejandra Herrera and Jamie McMurry are curating this year's Perform Chinatown, 27 July 2013. #performanceart #LosAngeles"
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""...of the network, and the network – digital, neural, bacterial, financial – now dominates our lives” – Erik Davis"
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"“Why this emphasis on curation- on gathering, filtering, selecting, framing, juxtaposing? Because curation is the native art..."
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"2 pieces on #performanceart, both pub today, both sad, that almost cancel one another out: http://ning.it/11rdZmw"
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">Jérôme Bel: Cedric, 23 Nov, 8 PM, & The Show Must Go On; 5/6 Dec; 8 PM Royce Hall, UCLA http://ning.it/11RmL8p &…"
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"Please donate to LA performance art / dance journal Native Strategies: http://ning.it/11P8x81 #performanceart #LosAngeles #archive"
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"CONFUSION IS SEX # 3 / 3 is on the horizon; organized by DINO DINCO, DAWN KASPER & OSCAR SANTOS #LosAngeles #performanceart"
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"And part of what didn't work (HomeLA) was a lack of confronting the space or those gathered in it. Missed opportunity. Dance as decor."
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"HomeLA was / is a great idea & was staged in a rad house, but save 4 a few stand-outs (Nick Duran, Melanie Ríos Glaser), the work was weak."
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"Ladies Only :a workshop weekend with Lydia Lunch and others : Ojai, CA: 24 - 27 May 13: http://www.postcatastrophecollaborativeojai.com/"
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""Performance art might be over..." No. Or rather, only if we don't protect it from museums, I think. http://ning.it/11HWKZ1"
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"“Tell me in what bar you live part of your days and I’ll tell you who you are,” says the proverb."
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"Friday > @MegWolfeLA & her Psych-Out DaDa GoGo Family Band performing HELL HOLE! (Persephone's Prom); DTLA. Info: http://ning.it/10ARVpf"
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- performance curator, artist, filmmaker, director, writer
- Bio
- Dino Dinco was raised by a family of fighting chickens in rural Pennsylvania before moving to Los Angeles as a kid. He is a performance art curator, multi-practice artist and director of film and live theater. He is currently at work on a book focusing on contemporary West Coast performance art practice, thinking and scholarship in major art centers from Vancouver to Tijuana.
Dinco’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Paris (2005, 2001), Los Angeles (2001), and San Francisco (2009, 2004), as well as in group shows in London, Mexicali, Paris, Santiago de Compostela, Los Angeles, Antwerp, Hasselt (Belgium), New York and Hamburg, where it appeared in the touring exhibition “Archeology of Elegance: Twenty Years of Fashion Photography.” Selections from his series “Chico” were featured at Salon Paris Photo at The Louvre, Paris (2001 - 2002). Dinco’s exhibition TODOS SOMOS PUTOS (with Julio Torres) was reviewed by Chris Kraus in the December 2010 edition of Artforum.
His images have appeared in publications such as surface (US), i-D (UK), Dutch (France), Revista Espacio (Mexico), V (US), SPEX (Germany), Vogue Brasil (Brazil), Tokion (Japan), BIG (US), Studio Voice (Japan), Zoo (France), BUTT (Holland), and stimuli (Malaysia) as well as in the photography anthologies: Sample (Phaidon, 2005), Archeology of Elegance (Schirmer / Mosel, 2002), and Cross (Calloway, 2000). Dinco was featured in surface magazine’s first annual “Avant Guardians” portfolio and traveling exhibition.
In 2010, Dinco curated GUTTED, a five-hour performance art exhibition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions that focused on how artists speak from / of / to the body and inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy's Corpus. GUTTED featured 71 artists and performers with durational and short-form actions and readings from artists including: Julie Tolentino & Pigpen / Stosh Fila, Dorian Wood, Mariel Carranza, Sheree Rose, Benjamin Weissman, Ryan Heffington, Dawn Kasper and Heather Cassils.
Dinco returned to curate GUTTED 2011 at LACE, which saw the return of several artists from GUTTED 2010 (Dorian Wood, Julie Tolentino & Pigpen / Stosh Fila, Monica Duncan, Mariel Carranza, et al.), as well as award-winning San Francisco-based artist / mentor, Keith Hennessey, Cara Elizabeth and others,
For the year 2011 - 2012, Dinco was the Performance Art Curator in Residence at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions / LACE.
Through a grant from London’s St. Martins College of Art and Design, Dinco was commissioned by the Fashion in Film Festival 2008 to make the award-winning short film, “El Abuelo,” which premiered at the Tate Modern in London, May 2008, and has since screened at film festivals worldwide. In 2011, he finished production on “Homeboy,” a feature length documentary film about gay Latino men who were in gangs, which made its US premier at OUTFEST 2012 and European premier in Antwerp.
Dinco wrote and directed the experimental theater piece, “Real Women Have Periods,” performed as part of Studio: Summer 2010 at REDCAT, Los Angeles.
In 2006, Dinco founded and co-curated YOU WEAR IT WELL, the first traveling international program of films and videos on fashion, style and beauty. Dinco has also worked in television commercial and music video production for over a decade.
Dinco serves on the Outreach and Programming Advisory Board of the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, the largest LGBT archive in the U.S. He is also a volunteer English language tutor in the Singleton Adult Literacy Center of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Twitter: @THATDINODINCO
Interview in Artslant on performance:
http://www.artslant.com/chi/articles/show/21230
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña on illness, the human body, performance & quantum physics. (A psychomagic script for a hard recovery)
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like
CALIFORNIA PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:33pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
>>>>> It's PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP season >>>>>
Tim Miller Performance Workshop at Highways Performance Space;
6 - 11 FEB 2012; culminates in a public performance on the 11th
Fee: $ 175…
3 x 6 x 3 # 3 at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions : Thursday, 20 October 2011
Posted on October 19, 2011 at 5:38pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
3 x 6 x 3 # 3 is the final installment of a three part series, each component featuring a circuit of three performance artists executing continuous live work for a rotating audience of six spectators.3 x 6 x 3 # 3 exhibits the performative work of Brian Getnick, Alejandra Beatriz Herrera Silvaand Samuel White. Brian Getnick will be joined by artists Claire Cronin and Corey…
ContinueMariel Carranza & Dorian Wood : a collaborative performance installation : LACE : 15 Sept 11
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 8:19pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Artists Mariel Carranza and Dorian Wood present a performative installation organized around sound making, physicality, gesture and sculpture. Working together for the first time, this unique collaboration hinges on the principle of trust, as well as each artist’s distinct relationship to sound making, sound feeling and hearing. Carranza is physically woven into the sound-making instrument, its architecture comprised of wooden beams and strings of varying…
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