Dino Desica is a long-term performance project by Norman Mine
Dino Desica is a performance project that uses improvisation, presence and persona to
-explore identity, vulnerability and everyday life as staged action. Developed through
live performances, online works and moving-image documentation, the project blurs the
boundary between performance and lived experience.
Four Rehearsals On / One Stage (2025)
Croydonites Festival
2:05 split-screen documentation (extract from a 20-minute performance)
Right side filmed by Romain Beck / Left side filmed by Antonio Lewis
Editing: Norman Mine
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His practice also draws from Alberto Moravia’s Boredom, a post-war novel that explores obsession, masculinity, desire, and artistic failure within a fractured society.
His work moves between playfulness and melancholy, blending masculinity and queer identity while questioning stereotypes and ideals of success.
Desica’s performances are marked by disillusionment and existential tension. Working through improvisation, he treats performance as a rehearsal rather than a finished form, allowing vulnerability, imperfection, and contradiction to remain visible.
Dino Desica by Christa Holka 2025
Dino Desica by Rodrigo Branco 2023
Across monologues, stand-up comedy, and a cappella singing, Desica inhabits the unstable space between
self-obsession and the desire to transcend the ego. His performances blur the boundary between everyday life and staged action, embracing uncertainty as a way to approach something lived, fragile, and real.
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LOCKDOWN PERFORMANCES (2021)
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Is a trilogy of short video performances by Dino Desica, developed during the global lockdown and filmed entirely in domestic spaces.
The works reflect on isolation, intimacy, and the need for human presence in a time of distance.
All Videos
FUTURE OPTIMISM, 2021
FUTURE OPTIMISM, 2021
OBSESSION 2021
