SIZE OF COMPANY
2 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to  large

PERMANENT STAFF
Richard DeDomenici

ARTISTIC POLICY
DeDomenici describes himself as a Gadfly, Trimtab, and Quipnunc:
Gadfly
Person who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
Trimtab
System specifically designed and placed in the environment at such time and place where its effects would be maximized, thereby effecting the most advantageous change with the least resources, time, and energy.
Quipnunc
Person who responds to current events, especially tragic ones, with quickly devised, sometimes callous jokes.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
DeDomenici is an excellent example of the best that live art has to offer. Clever, tremendously funny, powerfully political and unafraid to be accessible.
Mark Brown, The Sunday Herald
Beautiful acts of absurdity highlighting more serious issues.
Rhodri Marsden, Guardian
Hovering on that fine line between originality and sheer lunacy.
Blueprint

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Did Priya Pathak Ever Get Her Wallet Back?
Enduringly topical one-man touring show in which DeDomenici explores the complex and contradictory relationship between his artwork and the police.
Embracing Failure
Motivational lecture citing examples of creative failure in DeDomenici’s life between 1988 and the present day, including an attempt to target the guns of HMS Belfast onto his mum’s house.
99 Red Balloons
DeDomenici disseminates 99 helium-filled red balloons to audience members before inviting them to sing with him the Cold War pop hit 99 Red Balloons while inhaling helium from the aforementioned red balloons.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Plagiarismo!
An entertaining and educational new illustrated talk about the problem of intellectual copyright theft in the creative industries.
DeDomenici will take Plagiarismo! to Edinburgh in Summer 09 - unless somebody else copies the idea first.
Rub Me Up The Wrong Way
International performance art microBiennale curated by DeDomenici and staged in Norwich, UK since 2006. The next RMUTWW takes place in July 09 and is available for international touring.
Plane Food
In-flight meals taste different on the ground. DeDomenici opens a temporary café which sells only genuine airplane food, enabling the 95% of people who have never flown to experience the delights of airline cuisine.
Premieres June 09, London

WRAP-AROUND
Residencies, creative workshops and artist talks. Artist/student studio visits/crits. Curating events/festivals and/or exhibitions. Live blogging. Broadcasting. Devising bespoke nanoperformance portfolios.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Spain, Germany: SuperJumbo (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) Residency [forthcoming] (Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
2007 Austria, Canada, USA: Residency (Performing Rights, Tanzquartier Wien) Did Priya Pathak Ever Get Her Wallet Back? (New York, Wisconsin, Halifax)
2006 China, Germany, Ireland: Rolling Stones Beijing (DaDao Live Art Festival) EscalatorChair Hamburg (Galerie der Hochschule für bildende Künste) Residency (Tulca Season of Visual Arts)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
See Above