Lucia D'Errico

She is co-editor of Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion (2019, London: Rowman & Littlefield Int.) and author of Powers of Divergence. An Experimental Approach to Music Performance (2018, Leuven University Press). She works as a composer, sound artist, performer and graphic designer. After Lucia D'Errico dedicated the first decades of her artistic career to music performance with a special focus on new and experimental music, her work today focuses on the transformative power of artistic research. D'Errico's intellectual and creative mobility has taken her into fields as diverse as music composition, music performance, computer music, video performance, graphic design, modern literatures, languages, post-structural philosophy, and epistemology. As an artistic researcher, she has explored new musical practices (especially the practice of "divergent performances" and "rhopophony"), new concepts (especially the concept of the "operator"), new methods (e.g. techniques of minoration) and in recently developed new epistemological frameworks (the tetrapartition of the relationship between knowledge and the unknown, the monadic approach to artistic research, and the notion of the knowledge rift).  Her research focus is strongly transdisciplinary and aims to challenge current approaches in music performance and composition by relating them to concepts and practices from other fields. Other areas of research include the critique of representation, the role of the human in relation to the non-human, the paradoxical relationship between writing and what escapes writing, the suspension of teleological temporalities, the status of the question in artistic research, and the Investigation of machine ontologies. She is dedicated to the study of a particular line of post-structural philosophy that focuses primarily on the figures of Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Salvoj Žižek. D'Errico's artistic research has been carried out at Casa da Música Porto, University of Royal Holloway London, London City University, Royal College of Art London, Globart Academy Vienna, Ailab Vienna, Norwegian Academy of Music Oslo, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Singapore, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Handelsbeurs Ghent, De Bijloke Ghent, Orpheus Institute Ghent, Plivka Kiev, CERN Geneva, Öresund Collegium for Artistic Research, Malmö, and Hochschule für Musik and Tanz Köln, to name but a few, as well as in several international publications. She received her PhD from the Orpheus Institute Gent and the University of Leuven and was a postdoc at the Orpheus Institute Gent.