CCT Community Open House (online):
Change Through Action
A Dialogue with Angelo Dello Iacono
and Erika Pirl
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
5:00-6:00pm EST
Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link to join the session.
Please join us for this upcoming dialogue where we explore the work of creative practitioners in action. During this event, hosted by the Critical and Creative Thinking graduate program at UMass Boston and facilitated by CCT faculty Ben Schwendener, we will hear from Angelo Dello Iacono and Erika Pirl about their work in creative arts and cultural spaces. We will also share wider dialogue about the connections that we make in our creative directions as reflective practitioners engaged in fostering change in our lives and communities.
About Angelo Dello Iacono
Raised in Italy as a ballet dancer, Angelo graduated in fine arts and design, and is today an activist who does not dwell on the definitions of his work. He describes himself as a simple project farmer, loving nature and people with the passion of a child dancer with the insatiable curiosity of a scientist. Based in Switzerland and alternately a designer, choreographer, scriptwriter or director, Angelo travels the world and creates his own destiny, more than he looks for it. Angelo has been enriched and influenced by personalities throughout productions in more than 30 countries. His model of social pedagogy “Ghetto Jam” and its therapeutic approach to movement, developed in 20 years of experience, has guided much of his path. His services and the uniqueness of his point of view are now called upon for management / co-management of cultural events, staging performances, films, transformation of spaces.
About Erika Pirl
Erika Pirl is a project manager, visual artist, choreographer, and academic researcher. Her studies began in dance, and have taken her through paths of musical studies, leading her to conceptual art and sound studies focusing on identity, pertinence, collective memory and social development. In the last 5 years Erika has researched alternative medicine and somatic practices, holding spaces for movement research and holistic therapies. She recently funded an art center in Central America which now works in constellational alliance with various nonprofit self-sustained art and cultural spaces. Erika’s expertise focuses on applied arts in public spheres and to multidisciplinary curating. Her research addresses the effects of surroundings and historical awareness on personality and psychological wellbeing, and their relationship to violence and harmony.
