Daniela Cascella

overview . testimonials . experience

Commissioning and Developmental Editing

• Bessie
  An epistolary biography of Elizabeth Bruce, by Professor Gemma Blackshaw, Royal College of Art
  I was commissioned to read and offer editorial input to Gemma's work-in-progress, funded by the Royal College of Art - School of Art & Humanities.
  2023-ongoing
• A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras
  A series of commissions and editorials for MAP magazine, including contributions by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, Tristan Foster, Richard Skelton, Tomoé Hill, Craig Dworkin, Patrick Farmer, Saudamini Deo, Sharon Kivland, Jen/Eleana Hofer, Jessica Sequeira, James Wilkes & Ella Finer, Dan Beachy-Quick & Kylan Rice, Snejanka Mihaylova, Enxhi Mandija, Alice Butler, Christof Migone, Moosje Goosen, Julia Calver, Gemma Blackshaw, Helena Hunter & Mark Peter Wright, Autumn Richardson.
  more info
  2021-2022
• Untranslated
  A series that I edited and commissioned at minor literature[s], in which writers and artists responded to books not translated in English. Including contributions by James Wilkes, Germán Sierra, Mónica Belevan, C.D. Rose, Douglas Robertson, among others.
  more info
  2016-2018
• Smarginature
  A series of workshops, talks and performances at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway and online organised by Natasha Soobramanien and myself, around language slippages and shifting subjectivities. Featuring performances and workshops by Cia Rinne and Claire Potter, two Radio Ferrante podcasts, and new online text commissions by Hannah Black, Juliet Jacques, Jen Hofer, Bhanu Kapil, Ashaki M. Jackson and Mg Roberts, Natasha Soobramanien and myself.
  https://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com
  https://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/radio-ferrante/
  2016
• Cut & Splice: Transmission
  Book edited by Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati (Sound Threshold).
  Sound and Music, London, UK
  Book published on the occasion of 2010's Cut & Splice festival, London. It includes interviews with and statements by all the artists in the Cut & Splice festival, newly commissioned texts, reprinted texts and interviews, graphic scores, visual interferences and archival material.
  Featuring: Rudolf Arnheim, Antonin Artaud, Ed Baxter, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Jaap Blonk, Blood Stereo, the Bohman Brothers, Bertolt Brecht, Earle Brown, John Cage, Daniela Cascella, Nicolas Collins, Richard Crow, John Duncan, Fortunato Depero, Lucia Farinati, Félix Guattari, Esther Johnson, Douglas Kahn, Jacob Kirkegaard, Sharon Kivland, Tetsuo Kogawa, Jerome Kohl, Brandon LaBelle, Anton Lukoszevieze (Apartment House), Ma La Pert (Jennifer Walshe and Tony Conrad), Giorgio Manganelli, Guglielmo Marconi, Tom McCarthy, R. Murray Schafer, Max Neuhaus, Robert Normandeau, Lee Patterson, Resonance Radio Orchestra, Keith Rowe, Sound Threshold, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Neil Strauss, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Allen S. Weiss, Gerard Wells, Gregory Whitehead, Richard Whitelaw, Robert Worby, John Wynne. Designed by Modern Activity.
  2010

Manuscript / Essay Editing and Revision

• Gemma Blackshaw, 'Athena in Blankets: Cathie Pilkington at the Freud Museum London', Cathie Pilkington: Housekeeper, exhibition catalogue, London: Freud Museum, 2025
• Lital Khaikin, Flight, Seattle: Sublunary Editions, 2024
• Kate Briggs, The Long Form, London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023
• Kate Briggs, This Little Art, London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017
• Salomé Voegelin, Sonic Possible Worlds, London: Bloomsbury, 2014

Thesis Supervision and Mentoring

• Between 2013 and 2018 I was Assistant Professor in Writing in the MA Fine Art at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, where I supervised each year an average of ten theses and writing projects by students at the intersections between writing and art, and developed skills to work with students who write in English as a second language.