Dario ROBLETO Artist or DJ?

WEEK 1:Mia GIRARD-PATROUILLEAU
Dario ROBLETO Artist

Dario Robleto's work uses the connections between the material onto which music has been recorded and the music.  He is his own sort of DJ, making the connections between physicality and music.  He transforms records, cassette tapes into visual histories of music and American history by grinding them down, melting them etc.  In this video, he focuses on the history of dance in the US to folk-medicine tradition from Shaker culture to contemporary club culture. He considers himself a "materialist poet"; the language of poetry is essential to his work and the narrative behind the work.  His works are highly studied and often philosophical in nature.  He "finds a new universe" in objects by manipulating their materiality much like a DJ finds a new nature in music by manipulating sound and mixing different tracks. (134)