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About my work

Through extensive transdisciplinary research involving visual, live art, video and experimental performance practice and theory, I have explored a broad range of ideas, developing a body of work, disseminating, organising and devising projects, working both independently and collaboratively. Key areas of interest remain the Baroque, ecosophy and theories of lived perception, Butoh and Tarantism, My movement and performance research is guided, linked and enabled by sound and drawing, acoustic ecology, active listening and hearing (binaural and auditory discrimination), physical vulnerability/impediments and embodied performance taking place.

I am a visiting lecturer, and continue to facilitate workshops, giving talks and seminars at various universities, centres and arts establishments.

I am currently researching for a PhD at Roehampton University on ‘Bodyment’: The Acoustic Body in Place and Performance, as exemplified in site-specific acoustic ecology and movement-based live art. Here I posit ‘place’ as a process of becoming, between body and environments (auditory and acoustic) and specifically, in the Deleuzian sense of ‘becoming animal’ and ‘becoming insect’. My process of making work involves taking an immersive and embedded approach to auditory site research, exploring the relation between the environments of body and the immediate acoustics of site.

Projects, exhibitions, screenings,
performances, residencies and awards

2008

• Vanishing Ill Point (part 1,2 & 3), work-in-progress, Lab Night, Roehampton University
• Video work in ‘D®ESS - Cƒ¶DE: the alien inside me’ exhibition, Primo Piano Living Gallery, Lecce, Italy
• Melissa (home bee) 2 hours itinerant site-specific performance, Melissano and countryside (Lecce), Italy
• Mask, masking, masker, performance-installation within ‘The Book of Blood: Human Writes’ with Leiniz collective, ‘Sacred’, Chelsea Theatre, London
• Collaboration in live art work ‘slideshow’ by Justyna Sheuring, Pulse Fringe Festival/ The Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich

2007

• Conceived and performed Stitch (Punto), performance video, in collaboration with Helen Spackman (guest appearance Isabella Di Cola, camera/editing by Fabrizio Di Carlo), Salento area, Italy
• Transdisciplinary, immersive and intensive in-situ movement research, as member of InVivo Movement Research Collective
• Performance in ‘The Book of Blood ‘ by Leibniz collective, ‘Sensitive Skin’, Nottingham Trent University
• Group process 4-intuition (by Carla Vendramin), in-situ research/collaboration with Marnie Orr, Justyna Sheuring, Carla Vendramin, Middlesex University, Trent Park, London
• Taking Place(2): Piet(r)à-Strascico, site-specific performance, video screening and symposium (incl. presentation of work and paper), co-organised and in collaboration with Helen Spackman, supported by ‘The Facility’, London Metropolitan University. The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London
• Introduction to Performance/Live Art (history of Performance Art, talk and workshops) Art & Design Foundation Course, City Lit, London
• Co-organised a 4-day collaborative intensive transdisciplinary movement laboratory, as part of InVivo Movement Research Collective, Moving Arts Base and Middlesex University, London
• (2005-) Visiting Lecturer, BA Performing Arts and Theatre Studies courses, London Metropolitan University

2006

• Collaborative performance, in Helen Spackman’s ‘Piet(r)à’. ‘The Facility’ Symposium, London Metropolitan University, London
• Live art interventions and work presentation, ‘Perspectives’, Chisenhale Dance Space, London
• 'You and You', durational performance-installation in collaboration with Rainer Knupp, Oxford House, AAS End Festival, London

2005

• Wellcome Trust award for Ringing Forest, sci-art/R&D collaborative project on tinnitus.
• Screening event and talk, Oxford House, London
• Site-specific live art solos and in collaboration with Helen Spackman, Thomas Kampe and Emmet Ward, ‘Calici di stelle’ event, Galatina, Italy
• Video performance, ‘Segnali luminosi’, Center for Visual Arts La Pescheria, Church of Maddalena, Pesaro, Italy
• Group show. Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic. Zagreb, Croatia
• [States of] TRANCEformation. Research project, with ‘Artists Programme 05’ fund, Chisenhale Dance Space, London
• Choreographer, performer, designer, collaborator, in Helen Spackman’s ‘Piet(r)à’, experimental theatre performance, research. ‘Happily Ever After’, The Facility symposium 2, London Metropolitan University
• (19.04) Performances (Satan & puppeteer) in L. Chetwynd’s ‘The Fall of Man’, Tate Britain, London & (28.4) at Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin

2004

• Citizen. Live-art performances. 'Moral Plinth'. Beaconsfield, London
• Performer in ‘Born Free’, Gasworks Gallery, London
• Outskirts. Live-art performance/video installation. Award: jury prize. ‘Visura Aperta 04’. Residency. Momjan, Croatia.
• Tiber embankment, site-specific improvisation. ‘Gay-litteram’, Laltrasponda, Rome
• Video looped projection, ‘Immaterial’, cycle of performance and visual art, La Interior Bodega gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• ‘Paradise Now’ festival. Video screening. ‘Festa Nazionale dell'Unità’, Rome
• ‘The temptations of St. Anthony’, performances in L. Chewynd’s ‘Debt’, Beck’s Futures 05, ICA, London
• ‘Surabaya Hoxton’, Hoxton Hall, 'Surabaya Hackney' 291 Gallery, ‘Surabaya Brixton’ ,Ritzy Cafe, conceived/devised live art performances and event, developed and performed with Naoko Takahashi, London
• 'Re:thinking: time'. Exhibition of ‘LabCulture’ artists, Peterborough Digital Arts, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
• Commission grant. Casarano Municipality (Italy)
• Member of ‘Theatralia’ collective. Performed in ‘NIMN’ (against death penalty), Garage Theatre, London
• Deviser, choreographer and facilitator of interdisciplinary and butoh performance project/workshop ‘Vacuus’ for dancers at ‘Energym’. Performed at Piccole Storie event, Palazzetto dello Sport, Ugento (Lecce) Italy
• Talk/presentation in ‘Under Construction’ event, Oxford House, London
• Co-established/member of ‘Cremer Projects’, association supporting the work of disabled artists

2003

• Sanatorium. Performance, presentation/paper. ‘Theory in Practice’ conference/residency, Art Radionica Lazareti and video installation, Galerija Otok, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• ‘Giorni d' Europa’. Programme for RAI1 (Italian national TV). Interviewed.
• Stalks. Video installation. 'Initinere', Palazzo D’ Elia, Casarano (Lecce), Italy
• Solvitur (ambulando). Performance in a stationary train, ‘Posto Unico’, Cisternino (Brindisi), Italy
• Performer in L. Chetwynd’s 'Richard Dadd and the Dance of Death', Golden Resistance, Tate & Egg Live, Tate Britain, London
• 'Fleches Sans Corps' project, performance audition/coordinator/casting/choreography/collaboration, London Metropolitan University and other sites, London

2002

• Birmingham. Film and TV Festival. Screening. UGC cinema
• Corridoi, video broadcasting, Barr-Watson St John the Baptist RC Primary School, Brighton
• Vivid Residency. Birmingham. ‘Labculture’ bursary by PVA Lab.
• Re-bite (Look back), video work, Slade Graduate, Chiswick Park Business Centre, London
• Cricketcicada. Performance/installation, in collaboration with Amy Cunningham, Red Gate Gallery, London
• Video installations and performance, Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
• Collaborative improvised sound performance (invited by Bruce McLean), Anthony D’ Offay Gallery, London
• Performances in ‘Artistika’, art & design exhibitions, ‘Carlo V’ castle, Lecce, Italy
• Death of a disco dancer. Performance and video projection, ‘Critical Curtain’ Bloomsbury Theatre, London
• Performer in L. Chetwynd’s ‘Born Free’, Gasworks Gallery, London
• Performances in ‘Macadamia’ event, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
• Video work commission from Gissings for event at the Gissing Headquarters Building, London

2001

• Insetto. Performances and installation. Blackgull Theatre Space, Rome
• Gerontos. Performance and video installation. ‘Posto Unico’, Brindisi, Italy
• Performances. ‘Macadamia’ event. Bloomsbury Theatre, London
• Video and photographic work in ‘Aroma Gallery’, Oranienburgerstrasse, Berlin
• 'Worm Festival II'. Video screening, Plastique Kinetic Worms. Contemporary art space, Singapore
• Research with Prof. Chino Kaori, Gakushuin University and butoh masterclasses with Akiko Motofuji (Asbestos Kan) Tokyo, Japan

2000

• Chorea video work in ‘Exit’, 24 hours screening event, Chisenhale Gallery, London
• Love is in the air. Performance and painting group exhibition, The Chocolate Factory/Middlesex University Gallery, London
• ‘Emotional Cities'. Tranz-Tech. Video work. Toronto International Video Art Biennale, Canada
• Expedition award from UCL. Performance research in India.
• Member of art collective ‘Ntartei’, Italy

1999

• Co-curated (performed/exhibited) ‘Freezer’ art exhibition, Palazzo De Judicibus, Casarano, (Lecce), Italy
• Audrey Wykeham Prize in Fine Art, UCL

1998

• Performer in ‘Sparkle’. ICA bar event. London
• Co-curated project (and exhibited), ‘Vie di Mezzo’, Palazzo D’ Elia, Casarano (Lecce), Italy

1997

• Site-specific performances and installations ‘I Mangiatori di Fuochi’ event, Casarano (Lecce) Italy

1996

• Video projection, Tramway, Glasgow
• Talk & video screening, poetry event, Castrignano dei Greci, town hall, (Lecce) Italy

1995

• In Absentia, site-specific video installation, ‘Dal suono all’ immagine’ video art festival, Parabita (Lecce), Italy

1990

• Site-specific installation/sculpture. Residency with artists from Berlin, Cursi (Lecce), Italy. EU funded

1985(-1995)

• Singer and songwriter of ‘Good Movie Guide’, music group

Further training

Performance and movement training in Italy and England. Butoh training in England and Japan. Masterclass/workshops attended by Ko Murobushi, Tatsura Kan,Tadashi Endo, Jeannie Donald, Akiko Motofuji, amongst others.

Education

2008 (ongoing) PhD research, Roehampton University, London
2000-02. MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London. AHRB scholarship
1996-2000. BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons.), Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
1998. Helsinki Academy of Fine Art, Finland

Reviews, publications and links

2006

• Bellotto, E., Fabrizio Manco’s Professional Practice , BTEC H.N.C. Fine Art
• Interview for Taranta Video Blog, PerformingMediaLab (Martignano) Grecìa Salentina (Lecce), Italy
• ‘Taranta e magia circense’, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (22.08.)

2005

• Manco, F., Ringing Forest e-zine Vector, issue no.3, edited by Miguel Leal, ‘Virose Organization’, Porto, Portugal
• a-n magazine (February issue), video still image
• Piero Pala, Enigmatico Stilnovo, XXI° Sec. d.C.

2004

• Interviewed for Istria TV, Croatia

2003

• Interviewed for ‘Giorni d’ Europa’, evening programme for RAI1 (Italian national TV)
• Interviewed for Telerama, Puglia region TV, (Lecce) Italy
• Nicola Sansò, ‘Fluid boundaries’, in ‘Initinere’, routes of contempory art in Salento, Orione publ., Maglie, (Lecce) Italy
• Gabi Scardi, ‘Water (&)Salt’, in ‘Initinere’, routes of contempory art in Salento, Orione publ., Maglie, (Lecce) Italy
• Grazia De Palma, ‘Mobile memories between Salento and Docklands’, Corriere del Mezzogiorno (17.08), Italy

2002

• a-n magazine (November issue), video still image

1996

• Photographs in ‘Retrovie’, Farinella, G. & Errico, V., Madonna Oriente, Melpignano (Lecce), Italy

Images published on This Week

Images by Fabrizio Manco published on This Week
16 June 2008 Drawings.Title: 'Did you see that 2000 year old lotus seed
that produced a flower?'.
28 February 2008 A drawing.Title: 'A further tear'.
13 February 2008 A drawing.Title: 'You sing..'.
27 October 2007 A drawing. Title: 'Hernia'.
21 November 2006 Untitled image.
14 April 2006 A drawing re-flection of folds from a movement mnemonic exploration.

Images

Images of Fabrizio Manco's work and practice documentation:-

• Title: Dolmen. About: The title 'Dolmen' refers to a pre-historical stone construction. The image documents Fabrizio Manco's experimentation involving improvisation and in connection with a specific landscape - the actual Dolmen in the Salento area of Puglia, Italy. Photography and imaged editing: Fabio Pino.
  © Fabrizio Manco. August 2007
• Title: Did you see that 2000 year old lotus seed that produced a flower?*
  © Fabrizio Manco. 2008
  *From Mikio NARUSE’s film Sound of the Mountain (1954)
• Title: Home Bee (Casa Ape). About: An itinerant durational performance
  31st August 2008, Italy. Photography: Fabio Pino
  © Fabrizio Manco 2008