Regisseur, Komponist, Musiker, bildender Künstler.
Geboren 1962 in Rimini. Lebt dort.
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 - space for the arts (Rimini, 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.
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.
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 and New Media. On-going collaborations include: Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Domus Academy Milan, Universities of Urbino, Bologna, and Camerino (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 book "Pneuma. Giardini Pensili: un paesaggio sonoro" has been published in 2005 by the Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone (Gorizia).
His latest 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, Christopher Cox, a.o. A French expanded translation is planned.
2006 projects have include a series of Berlin projects based on Heiner Müller's tetxs: Greuelmärchen - sound/video installation (Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft, Berlin), Schwarzes Licht , Roter Schnee. Pneuma (Saint Petersburg), Cenere (Monfalcone), Organo laico (Reggio Emilia REC Festival).
2007: Elegia italiana (film), Breviario mediterraneo, a film after Predrag Matvejevic's "Mediterranean".
Paci Dalò's visual work is represented by Fondazione Morra (Naples).