Dino Desica is a long-term performance project by Norman Mine.
Developed across live performance, moving image and digital formats, the work uses a fictional actor as a framework to examine how a self is constructed for the camera, through repetition, ambition and exposure.
Operating between acting and performance art, Dino moves through structures such as rehearsal, audition and self-presentation, where the boundary between performing and being begins to destabilise.
The work foregrounds moments of failure, adjustment and persistence, treating performance not as a finished act but as an ongoing process of becoming visible.
Four Rehearsals On / One Stage (2025)
Croydonites Festival
Images from the performance by Łukasz Izdebski.
TK Maxx Advert Backstage Set (2026)
Directed by Andreas Nilsson,
images from the set by Monika Ostrowska.
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. The work moves between staged action and everyday life, including online presence, where the boundary between persona and self is continually negotiated.
Embracing failure and imperfection, the performances foreground moments of exposure, where control slips and the performer exceeds the role.
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.
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FUTURE OPTIMISM, 2021
FUTURE OPTIMISM, 2021
OBSESSION 2021
