Francesco Gagliardi is a performance artist, historian of performance and filmmaker based in New York City. He studied theater and philosophy in Italy and in the UK and has been working internationally as an actor, director and performance artist for over a decade. In 2000 he translated, directed, and performed in the first Italian production of Gertrude Stein's “Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights.” Programs of his performance work were recently presented in Los Angles (The Wulf, December 2008), Berlin (Miss Micks, January 2009), Torino, Italy (quindicifebbraio, June 2009), and New York City (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, September 2009). He is currently working on a series of invisible performances of mental tasks, and on a series of videos exploring the performative aspects of translation. He has written about the photographic documentation of performance art in the 1960s and 70s, and is currently researching the work of Stuart Sherman.
For more information about his performance work see: http://francescoxgagliardi.blogspot.com/