Danielle de Picciotto is an American-born artist, musician and filmmaker.[1] She was born in Tacoma, Washington, USA[2] and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In 1989 she founded, along with her then partner Dr. Motte, the first Berlin Love Parade.[3]
Biography
editDe Picciotto was the initiator of Berlin's "Clubart Movement" in 1992.[4] She was vocalist for Space Cowboys and The Ocean Club (with Gudrun Gut).[5] She was curator of the Gallery „Das Institut“ from 1996-1987, created the exhibition and event series "Kunst oder König / in", to promote Berlin artists, DJs, and musicians.[6] She was a member of the Berlin art movement Pop Surrealism.[7] She sang for Die Haut together with Anita Lane, Nick Cave and Kid Congo Powers.[8]
She married her longtime partner Alexander Hacke, bassist of Einstürzende Neubauten in 2006.
De Picciotto collaborates with the Goethe Institut internationally on presenting Berlin's cultural scene[9] and was commissioned by the German Foreign Ministry to direct a short film on European Club Culture in 2008. In 2012, she became a member of the band Crime & the City Solution.
She was featured as an important artist in the documentary In Berlin by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari. [10]
In 2016, she was invited to do a course on interdisciplinary performance at the HfG at ZKM Center for Media Art in Karlsruhe. Panels and talks have also been also offered at NYU, Berlin and the Folkwang University, Bochum.[11]
Discography and Other Released Media
editReleased Records and Singles
editSpace Cowboys
edit- 1991 Locked And Loaded (LP)
- 1993 Terrorist (Single)
Ocean Club
edit- 1996 Pearl (LP)
- 1996 Obsession (LP)
Collaborations with Alexander Hacke
edit- 2011 “Hitman’s Heel” (CD)
- 2016 Perseverantia (CD/LP)
- 2017 Unity (CD/LP)
- 2018 Menetekel (CD/LP)
- 2018 Joy (CD)
- 2020 : “The Current” (CD/LP)
- 2021: The Silver Threshold (CD/LP)
- 2022: “Keepsakes” (CD/LP)
- 2024: “The best of hackedepicciotto - Live in Napoli” (CD/LP)
Solo albums
edit- 2015: “Tacoma” (CD)
- 2019: Deliverance (LP)
- 2020: The Element of Love (LP)
Collaborations
edit- 1995 Waiting Divamania; Digivalley
- 1992 Cheerio Malarias
- 1997 No Go Die Haut
- 2005 Nackte Hunde Mermer Records
- 2013 American Twilight CD with Crime & the City Solution from Mute records[12]
- 2014 The Ministry of Wolves Album release in collaboration with Mick Harvey, Alexander Hacke, Paul Wallfisch
- 2017 “Monika Werkstatt” (CD/LP)
- 2017 “Monika Werkstatt Remixs” (LP)
- 2019 “Monika Werkstatt Ambient Session Day 1” (LP)
- 2019 “Monika Werkstatt Ambient Session Day 2”(LP)
Released Films and Music Videos
edit- 2001 Directed a music video for Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke on his world recording tour of Sanctuary
- 2002 La Ballade De John Massis music video for Fred Alpi -- Paris
- 2002 Rock On music video for Martin Dean -- Berlin
- 2002 Kleiner Dicker Junge music video for Electrocute -- Los Angeles
- 2004 Einstürzende Neubauten - on tour with neubauten.org film documentary
- 2006 Throbbing Gristle; Berlin film documentary
- 2007 Director, The Mountains of Madness, with The Tiger Lillies and Alexander Hacke.
- 2008 The Ship Of Fools DVD/CD film documentary and CD together with Alexander Hacke
- 2009 Sternentanz, director. An animated short on club culture commissioned by the German Foreign Ministry
- 2009 In Berlin, Protagonist in the Berlin documentary by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari
- 2009 Do you love me as much as I love you, Protagonist in the Documentary on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
- 2010 How Long Is Now, Film documentary DVD
- 2012 The Glasshouse, Film documentary DVD[13]
- 2015 Not Junk Yet- The Art of Lary, 7 Film Documentary
Released Books
edit- 2012 The Beauty of Transgression - A Berlin Memoir Publisher: Gestalten Verlag
- 2013 We are Gypsies Now - Der Weg ins Ungewisse Graphic Diary Publisher: Metrolit Verlag Berlin[14]
- 2015 We Are Gypsies Now released in the US by AMOK books
- 2020: Die Heitere Kunst der Rebellion, Graphic Novel, Published by Graf& Graf
- 2023: “Gesamtkunstwerk 1987-2023” Kunstkatalog
Other media
edit- 2002 Initiated Bada Bing, a music event series, together with partner Alexander Hacke
- 2011 Invited to do a five-month art residency at the Meetfactory in Prague
- 2014 Republik der Wölfe Theater music composed and performed live at Theater Dortmund together with Mick Harvey, Alexander Hacke, Paul Wallfisch
References
edit- ^ Danielle de Picciotto: 'Detroit is the new Berlin' Deutsche Welle -- November 21, 2013
- ^ "About Danielle de Picciotto". Archived from the original on 2015-11-21. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke on The Love Parade, Neubauten and Berlin by Tom Murphy. Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Denver Westword, August 31, 2011.
- ^ Danielle de Picciotto fait partie de ces légendes discrètes de l'underground Vice.com - January 29, 2016
- ^ In Transit: An Interview With Danielle de Picciotto The Quietus, May 20, 21015
- ^ Kunst oder Königin Gestalten News, August 2005.
- ^ Gallery Neurotitan Feedback, November 6, 2009
- ^ Danielle de Picciotto[permanent dead link] ExBerliner, October 19, 2011.
- ^ Meet the artists Goethe Institut
- ^ Ballhaus, Michael; Cappellari, Ciro (2009-05-14), In Berlin (Documentary), ARTE, Cine Plus Filmproduktion, Cine Plus, retrieved 2022-11-26
- ^ "Guests & Events - Folkwang Popinstitut". Pop-Musik Guest Events. Archived from the original on 22 June 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Reviews: American Twilight Mute.com, March 25, 2013
- ^ Interview with Danielle de Picciotto Westword, May 9, 2012
- ^ Graphic Diary: We Are Gypsies Now Vulture.com, September 29, 2015
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