Domenico de Clario
Domenico de Clario (MA, PhD) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, academic and musician. He was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 and migrated to Australia in 1956. Since 1966 de Clario has presented more than 350 exhibitions, installations and performances. He has received numerous grants and residencies, including the Australia Council Fellowship, and has published three books and several CD’s of his performances. His work is represented in all Australian public galleries and in major private collections.
Flowers for Lorne will re-imagine the relationship between Lorne and three specific creative individuals of the late 19th and early 20th century: Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain and D.H. Lawrence.
Over three performances using light and the spoken word de Clario will take his audience on a journey that will celebrate Lorne as a site of artistic pilgrimage.
Performance One /
A translation into keyboard sound of the final pages of D.H. Lawrence’s novel ‘Kangaroo’ –the writer’s celebrated description of the Australian coastal bush.
Saturday 12 March at the stub of the old Lorne Pier from 7pm (sunset)
Performance Two /
A two-person reading of interactions between the three authors and a female interlocutor responding to the interactions simultaneously as Kipling’s fiancée Carrie, Twain’s daughter Suzy and Lawrence’s wife Frieda.
Sunday 13 March at the Grand Pacific Hotel from 7 pm (sunset)
Performance Three /
A translation into keyboard sound of Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘Flowers for Lorne’, written following his visit to Lorne and the Erskine River Falls.
Saturday 2 April at the Erskine River mouth from 7 pm (sunset)
