Actor - Performer - Fictional Character
Dino Desica is one of the recurring fictional characters developed within Norman Mine. While Norman Mine creates spaces for exchange, collective experience and connection, Dino seeks that connection himself.
Built around the ambition of becoming an actor, his character evolves through an ongoing search for recognition, visibility, belonging and love. Dino's practice takes acting itself as both subject and method.
Rather than treating acting simply as representation, he uses it as a way of inhabiting different perspectives while exploring recognition, visibility, obsession, belonging and the search for love.
Acting becomes both a profession and an ongoing process of becoming.
Nationality: Italian
Based: London, UK
Height 177.5 cm / 5’10”
Chest 107 cm / 42”
Waist 81 cm / 32”
Hips 81 cm / 32”
Shoes EU 43.5 / UK 9
Eyes Green-Grey
Hair Dark Blond
Languages: Italian / English
contact
dinodesica@gmail.com
Driven by this continuous search, Dino's social and professional life continually feeds the construction of the character. Castings, commercial work, self-tapes, social media and everyday encounters all become part of his ongoing development.
Each live performance is treated as a rehearsal where Dino constructs, questions and reshapes himself in front of others. In turn, the experiences that happen beyond the stage continue to influence the character, allowing fiction and lived experience to continually inform one another.
The performances become rehearsals for Dino's life, while his life continually rewrites the performances.
Dino Desica by Rodrigo Branco 2023
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Dino Desica by Christa Holka 2025
Dino Desica as a host, The Flip Side Of The Coin, performance night at Chemist Gallery, London 2025,
photo by Gray Carmen
Inspired by Italian neorealism, the cinema of Hollywood's Golden Age and the transformative possibilities of acting, Dino reimagines these traditions within a contemporary landscape shaped by self-tapes, castings and social media. His work reflects on a world where acting no longer belongs only to the stage or cinema but has become embedded within everyday life, inviting audiences to encounter a character who is always in the process of becoming.
TK Maxx Advert Backstage Set (2026) Directed by Andreas Nilsson, images from the set by Monika Ostrowska.