MEDIATHEK

Born in Milan (Italy), Augusto Corrieri first trained as a close-up magician, studying and performing card and coin magic. A member of the Magic Circle, in 1998 he won first prize at the National Magic Competition (Italy) and second prize at the International Magic Competition (London). In 1999 he moved to England to attend a degree in Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, after which he co-founded and worked with Deer Park performance company. In 2004 he joined propeller, a performance and research collective based in Devon (UK), working on ideas of ecology, perception and orientation. Works include the performance-lecture We are the rivers we swim through, and the 2009 collaboratively written book Five rooms. In 2005 Augusto began his solo-led performance practice, beginning with Quartet (for Anna Akhmatova), in which it is the spectator who imagines and choreographs the show. The 2007 sequel, Quartet #2 (for Anna Akhmatova) - identical to the first but performed by Donna Shilling - is a 'ready-made show', a photocopy of the original. From 2007 to 2008 he embarked on Continuous Project, a series of 'group' performances made without standard processes of rehearsal: for example in Solo duet solo a spectator is invited on stage to watch, learn, and finally perform a dance solo. The piece Dance company uses online videos to teach a choreography to 10 people who only meet the day before performing the show live. Between 2008 and 2010 he he made three performance installations on commission: Photographs of a dance rehearsal (for London's Camden Arts centre), The Glass Room (for Winchester's Cornershop) and The Lasting Image (for the Whistable Biennale). These works cannot be seen by the audience: the performance stops, or "disappears", as soon as it is approached. In 2009 he was artist in residence at La Casa Encendida (Madrid). In 2010 he returned to solo performances, with the ongoing project Musical Pieces. Other companies and artists he has worked with include Lone Twin, MK, Blind Ditch and Sarah Nicolls. His performance practice goes hand in hand with writing and research. 2011 publications include the essay Describing Exhaustion (for the Lone Twin Book) and an essay on Jérôme Bel (for an upcoming book on French Theatre and Performance, ed. Carl Lavery, Palgrave Macmillan). He currently works as a researcher with Performance Matters, a 3-year creative resarch project investigating the cultural value of performance. Since 2003 Augusto has taught workshops and given lectures on several BA and MA performance courses, including at Laban, Dartington College of Arts, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Winchester University, Salford University, Brighton University, and Chichester University. (Quelle: http://www.augustocorrieri.com) / jst