Daniela Cascella

Editorial / Curatorial Projects

• The LYD Writing Research Residencies
  Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
  Collaborations with Dominique Hurth and Natasha Soobramanien
  more info
  2015/16
• Where Were We. On Writing, Intimacy, Body
  Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
  An international festival of readings and performances curated by Rhea Dall, Martin Glaz Serup and myself. Produced by Project Art Writing and Aarhus Litteraturcenter.
  more info
  2-6 December 2015
• Lydhørt 3: Writing Sound 2: Archiving, Reading, Performing
  Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
  The second instalment in the Writing Sound project, and the third episode of the Lydhørt project: a temporary collection of newly commissioned texts and sounds, that will form the prompts for four weekends of performances, readings, workshops and activities.
  http://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com
  more info
  2014
• Paths
  Solo show and artist's book + CD by Paolo Inverni
  Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany
  The result of a two-year research that Inverni and I developed about sound, the landscape, memory and literature.
  2009
• Cima Verde
  Sound installation by Chris Watson
  Manifesta 7, within Principle Hope exhibition curated by Adam Budak, ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto, Italy
  Co-curators Lucia Farinati, Tobi Maier
  An installation based on the sounds that Watson collected during his residency at the Centre for Alpine Ecology on Monte Bondone within the Sound Threshold project.
  2008
• Sound Threshold. Music and Sound Through the Landscape
  Research project exploring site and sound
  Parallel event to Manifesta 7, various locations, Trentino, Italy
  Co-curator Lucia Farinati
  We commissioned and produced:
  Cima Verde, a CD by Chris Watson featuring field recordings carried out by Watson during a residency at the Centre for Alpine Ecology on Monte Bondone;
  an outdoors concert at sunset by Fovea Hex and Blind Cave Salamander at the astronomical observatory Terrazza delle Stelle on Monte Bondone, 1600 m above sea level;
  As Below So Above, a performance and installation by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren (KREV) between Lake Garda and the archaeological site of Monte San Martino.
  Supported by Province of Trento, Edmund Mach Foundation, Paneveggio Park, Museum of Natural History Trento, Arts and Environment Office Bondone, Museum of Riva del Garda, Archaeological Heritage Office Trento, Touch, Niklas Belenius Gallery, Town Council of Tenno, Town Council of Riva del Garda
  more info
  2008
• Eco e Narciso
  Residencies, site-specific indoors and outdoors sound installations, CD/booklet
  Local museums around Turin, Italy
  Co-curator Rebecca De Marchi
  We produced installations by:
  Bruno Dorella, Marco Milanesio and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Canale Cavour - Edificio d'imboccco, Chivasso;
  John Duncan and Valerio Tricoli, Ecomuseo IPCA, Ciriè;
  Jacob Kirkegaard, Ecomuseo delle Guide Alpine "Antonio Castagneri", Balme;
  Stephan Mathieu, MUNLAB Ecomuseo dell'Argilla, Cambiano;
  Steve Roden, MAAM Museo a Cielo Aperto dell'Architettura Moderna - Palazzo Uffici 1, Ivrea.
  Produced by Province of Turin, sponsored by The Wire
  2006

Curatorial Projects

• Writing and Sound workshop / The Hague
  Society for Artistic Research annual conference, The Hague, The Netherlands
  I selected, in collaboration with Marcel Cobussen, 12 participants in the Writing and Sound workshop strand at the Society for Artistic Research conference on Writing, The Hague, 29/30 April 2016.
  more info
  2016
• REFMRL
  reFMRL is a series of events for which I've asked artists, writers, performers, musicians to remix, rewrite, re-read my book: to use the book as raw material.
  2 June: Bergen, Østre. With Jeremy Welsh, Maia Urstad, Signe Lidén.
  6 June: London, Hardy Tree Gallery, Mahu. With Christian Patracchini, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Georgia Rodger, Helena Hunter, Jess Chandler, Mark Peter Wright.
  25 June: Resonance104.4FM. With Salomé Voegelin and the guest voices of Aya Kasai, Clodagh Simonds, Helena Hunter, Joanne Lee, Patrick Farmer. Info
  20 July: London, Café Oto. With contributions by Christian Patracchini, Colin Potter, David Toop, Elaine Mitchener, Georgia Rodger, James Wilkes, Patrick Farmer+Trevor Simmons, Richard Skinner, Rie Nakajima, Salomé Voegelin, Steven J Fowler. Info
  Info: https://enabime.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/refmrl-curating-conversing-drifting/
• Writing Sound
  Readings and performances
  Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
  Co-curated with Phil Owen for Tertulia
  A day of readings and performances by Daniela Cascella, Patrick Farmer, Phil Owen, David Toop, Salomé Voegelin, Caroline Wilkins.
  more info
  2014
• Veiled Conversation No. 9
  Listening session and event by Pedro Lasch
  The Showroom, London, UK
  Co-curator Lucia Farinati
  An irreverent listening engagement with John Cage's Empty Words. First Listening Session of Sound Threshold. Season 2: The Listening Project.
  more info
  2010
• Death Travels Backwards
  Audio performances by Leif Elggren and Brandon LaBelle
  The Showroom, London, UK
  Co-curator Lucia Farinati
  Presented by Sound Threshold on the occasion of the launch of Elggren's DVD Death Travels Backwards, Errant Bodies Records.
  more info
  2009
• Inaudito
  A series of new commissions to musicians and artists, consisting of site-specific installations and live performances
  National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
  Co-curators Alter Ego contemporary music ensemble
  We commissioned and produced:
  Gavin Bryars and Philip Jeck, The Sinking of the Titanic;
  3/4HadBeenEliminated and ZimmerFrei, Everyday (The Satellite Seems A Little Further Out Of Reach);
  Mika Vainio and Micol Assaël, Elsewhere;
  Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room and world première of Three Translations For Maurizio Mochetti.
  In collaboration with Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
  2007-2008
• Tracks
  A series of talks, film screenings and live performances about sound culture in the UK and abroad
  The British School at Rome, Sainsbury Lecture Theatre, Rome, Italy
  The series featured the following events:
  Field recordings. Curator's talk; listening session; talk and live performance by Chris Watson;
  Graphic notations. Talk by Keith Rowe about Treatise by Cornelius Cardew; Keith Rowe and Mike Cooper performing pages from Treatise;
  Vinyl manipulations & turntablism. Curator's talk; listening session; live performance by Project Dark;
  Live performance by David Tibet / Current93, with John Contreras and Maja Elliott;
  White Lines. Workshop and live performance by Marina Rosenfeld, Valerio Tricoli, Stefano Pilia, Letizia Renzini. Italian première;
  25 years of Touch music. Curator's talk with Radio Rai3 journalist Nicola Catalano; live performance by BJNilsen. Italian première;
  Live performance by Matt Elliott and Manyfingers;
  Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation with the curator, as part of the event series within the exhibition The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988. A Video Library organised by Cristiana Perrella;
  Live performance by Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch.
  2004-2008
• Music with Roots in the Aether
  Film and video programme
  Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, Germany
  Works by Dan Graham, Robert Ashley, Harry Partch, Jerry Hunt.
  2007
• News from Nowhere
  A series of web podcasts
  Blow Up magazine
  An exploration into voice featuring Jerry Hunt, Reynols, Jani Christou, Rune Lindblad, Coh, Alastair Galbraith, Steroid Maximus, John Duncan & Edvard Graham Lewis, Etant Donnes, Irr.App.(Ext.), Deathprod, Current93, Richard Youngs, Fovea Hex, Martyn Bates / Mick Harris, Ellen Fullman / Konrad Sprenger, Sylvia Hallett, Mike Cooper, Jonathan Bepler, Beckett/Feldman, Anton Bruhin, Ø, BJNilsen, Robert Ashley, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Richard Crow, Antonin Artaud, Arthur Russell, Carl Stone, Margaret, Oren Ambarchi, Oxbow, Roy Orbison, Talk Talk, Tom Recchion.
  2007
• Orbita
  Solo show by Grönlund\Nisunen, with catalogue
  NicolaFornello Gallery, Prato, Italy
  2005
• The Cold Eye. Black Humour and Nonsense in Contemporary Video
  Video programme
  7 K Nights video project, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
  Works by Spike Jonze, Royal Art Lodge, Sara Lundén, Cane CapoVolto, Egill Saebjörnsson.
  2004
• Dissonanze
  A series of video programmes for the annual music festival
  Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
  Toured to FACT, Liverpool, UK and Elektra festival, Montréal, Canada
  2002 - 2004
• Stun Shelter
  Installation by John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff, with CD/booklet
  NicolaFornello Gallery, Prato, Italy
  2003
• Like Spinning Plates
  Video programme
  Melting Pop exhibition curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
  Toured to Elektra festival, Montréal, Canada
  2003
• Erewhon
  Music festival and DVD
  Studio Stefania Miscetti, Goethe Institut, Piccolo Jovinelli theatre, Rome, Italy
  Live performances by Saverio Evangelista (Esplendor Geométrico), Christof Kurzmann / Burkhard Stangl, Ryoji Ikeda / Carsten Nicolai, John Duncan, Philip Jeck.
  2003
• Perspectives. Sound Architecture
  Site-specific installations
  MicaMoca Centre, Milan, Italy
  Co-curator Luca Cerizza
  Works by Ryoji Ikeda, Carsten Nicolai, Mika Vainio.
  2001
• Video Vibe. Art, Music and Video in the U.K.
  Video programme and catalogue
  The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
  Co-curator Cristiana Perrella
  Toured to Gallery of Modern Art, Bergamo, Italy; MAN, Nuoro, Italy; Salara, Bologna, Italy; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy; Argos, Brussels, Belgium; CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania; Elektra festival, Montréal, Canada.
  2000