Derek DelGaudio

Derek DelGaudio is an interdisciplinary artist, primarily known as a writer, performer and magician.

Derek DelGaudio
DelGaudio in 2020
Born
Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
OccupationPerformance artist, writer, magician
Years active2010–present

He created the theater show In & Of Itself, directed by Frank Oz, and co-founded, along with artist Glenn Kaino, the performance-art collective, A.BANDIT. A.BANDIT has staged interventions at Art L.A. Contemporary in Santa Monica, The Ball of Artists, Art Basel Miami, LA><ART, and at The Kitchen in New York.[1] Together, DelGaudio and Kaino also created The Mistake Room,[2] a platform for situation-specific projects, as well as The [Space] Between, a "conceptual magic shop".[3] They have also co-authored a book under the A.BANDIT name, A Secret Has Two Faces, containing interviews and stories from their careers in performance art and magic, as well as contributions from Marina Abramović, Ricky Jay, David Blaine, and John Baldessari.[4]

In 2014, DelGaudio was selected to be the Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering. He has also consulted for television and cinema projects including The Carbonaro Effect and The Prestige.[5] He wrote and co-starred (with Hélder Guimarães) in the show Nothing to Hide, which opened off-Broadway at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City on October 23, 2013.[6]

Frank Oz directed a film version of In & Of Itself which was released on Hulu on January 22, 2021 and was co-produced by DelGaudio and Oz. DelGaudio's nonfiction book Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies will be released in March, 2021.[7]

Reception

In the 2017 New York Times Magazine profile of DelGaudio, journalist Jonah Weiner wrote:

"DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what’s known as relational aesthetics: a tributary of the first two in which spectators become indispensable, unpredictable participants in creating an artwork’s meaning."[8]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "A.Bandit at the Kitchen, October 5–6". Culturebot. October 1, 2011.
  2. http://laxart.org/events/view/abandit-glenn-kainoderek-delgaudio-the-mistake-room/#images
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-06-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. https://www.artofmagic.com/products/a-secret-has-two-faces
  5. "Derek DelGaudio". IMDb.
  6. Isherwood, Charles (November 7, 2013). "Playing With a Full Deck, and Your Head (Published 2013)" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. Gordon, Devin. "You've Never Seen a Magic Act Quite Like In & Of Itself". Vanity Fair. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  8. Weiner, Jonah (March 15, 2017). "The Magician Who Wants to Break Magic (Published 2017)" – via NYTimes.com.
  9. "Hall of Fame | The Academy of Magical Arts". www.magiccastle.com.
  10. "And the award goes to..." Magicana. May 29, 2017.
  11. "FISM Winners – 2012 to 2018".
  12. "Masters of Magic World Convention: a Venaria e Torino 4 giorni di pura magia". mentelocale.it. April 29, 2019.
  13. "Staff | Conjuring Arts". conjuringarts.org.
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