Multimedia Artist Talk: Danielle de Picciotto, "The Beauty of Transgression"

June 21, 2012

American artist, Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987. She was cofounder of the popular electronic dance music festival, Love Parade, and infamous clubs such as Tresor and EWerk. For decades she witnessed and influenced the creative upheaval in Berlin as its underground developed from postpunk to techno and on to the mixed experimental practices of today. She experienced, firsthand, that culture's influence as it successfully brought a war-ravaged city back to life.

In this multi media performance, Danielle de Picciotto will read from her Berlin memoir, The Beauty Of Transgression. The book brings together her accounts of musicians, DJs and club owners as well as other artists and their milieus, with unique firsthand descriptions of milestone places and events. During the reading, Danielle projects original Super 8 film clips of Berlin. She is accompanied by Alexander Hacke, founding member of Berlin cult band Einstürzende Neubauten, composing and performing live electronic soundscapes.