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American interdisciplinary artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Derek DelGaudio is an American interdisciplinary artist, primarily known as a writer, performer and magician.
Derek DelGaudio | |
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.jpg) DelGaudio in 2020 | |
| Born | 1984 or 1985 (age 39–40)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Performance artist, writer, actor, magician |
| Years active | 2010–present |
He created the theater show In & Of Itself, directed by Frank Oz, and co-founded, along with artist Glenn Kaino, the performance-art collective A.BANDIT, which has staged interventions at Art L.A. Contemporary in Santa Monica, The Ball of Artists, Art Basel Miami, LA><ART, and The Kitchen in New York.[2] DelGaudio and Kaino also created The Mistake Room,[3] a platform for situation-specific projects, as well as The [Space] Between, a "conceptual magic shop".[4] They have also co-authored a book under the A.BANDIT name, A Secret Has Two Faces, containing interviews and stories from their careers in performance art and magic, as well as contributions from Marina Abramović, Ricky Jay, David Blaine and John Baldessari.[5]
In 2014, DelGaudio was selected Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering. He has also consulted for television and cinema projects including The Carbonaro Effect and The Prestige. He wrote and co-starred (with Hélder Guimarães) in the show Nothing to Hide, which was directed by Neil Patrick Harris and opened off-Broadway at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City on October 23, 2013.[6]
Frank Oz directed a film version of In & Of Itself which was released on Hulu on January 22, 2021. DelGaudio's nonfiction book AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies was released in March 2021.[7][8]
In August 2021, Neal Brennan's one-man show, Unacceptable, debuted at New York City's Cherry Lane Theater, with DelGaudio as director.[9]
In 2022, DelGaudio made his feature film acting debut in Steven Soderbergh's thriller Kimi.
In the 2017 New York Times Magazine profile of DelGaudio, journalist Jonah Weiner wrote:
DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what's known as relational aesthetics: a tributary of the first two in which spectators become indispensable, unpredictable participants in creating an artwork's meaning.[1]
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