Richard DeDomenici makes work that’s social, joyful, topical and political – although rarely simultaneously. He specializes in urban-absurdist interventions which strive to create the kind of uncertainty that leads to possibility. DeDomenici is the inventor of the Carry-Ok wearable karaoke system, office chair sport The Swivelympics, the crocheted crypto-currency Knitcoin, and the radical feminist Eurovision tribute Fux Bizz. He recently released a fundraising record called Live Art Aid. Last year DeDomenici adapted his inexplicably popular Redux Project for television as part of the BBC4 event Live From Television Centre. It was described by journalist Matt Trueman as one of the smartest, strangest, subversive half hours of television they had ever seen.

Earlier this year DeDomenici staged The Swivelympics on Level 5 of Tate Modern's new extension for its opening weekend, and is working on interpretation materials for Tate's Artist and Society and Media Networks displays. He recently premiered his Redux of Superman IV: The Quest For Peace at the Milton Keynes International Festival this summer, and also presented new work at the Barbican and the 10th Forest Fringe in Edinburgh. This autumn DeDomenici has been commissioned to make a TV pilot in a nuclear bunker, and will exhibit a balloon-based work in a gallery show about a hidden civil war in Newcastle. He has made work in 28 countries, and is currently trying to devise a site-specific project in Iran. In 2017 Richard DeDomenici will unveil his most ambitious commission yet from the Radical Independent Art Fund.Contact:

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