DINO DESICA | Norman Mine

Dino Desica is a long-term performance project by Norman Mine

Developed through live performance, moving image and online works, it uses improvisation, presence and persona to explore stereotype, ambition and vulnerability within everyday situations.

The work unfolds through open situations, where actions are tested rather than fixed.

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

The character draws from Boredom by Alberto Moravia, a post-war novel that explores obsession, masculinity, desire and artistic failure within a fractured society.

It is also informed by the cinematic legacy of Vittorio De Sica and Italian neorealism, particularly its use of non-professional actors, loose structures and attention to ordinary life.

Lived experience becomes primary material: personal history, failure and desire are not represented but reactivated, placing the performer in a position where acting and being cannot be cleanly separated.

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Dino Desica by Christa Holka 2025

Dino Desica by Rodrigo Branco 2023

Across monologue, stand-up, a cappella performance, and modelling, Dino Desica inhabits the unstable space between self-obsession and the desire to transcend the ego. His work engages with both staged action and everyday life, including presence online, where the boundary between persona and self is continually negotiated.

Embracing uncertainty, failure, and imperfection, the performances foreground the lived, fragile, and real.

LOCKDOWN PERFORMANCES (2021)

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.