Lucia D’Errico is an artist-researcher in the field of music with a special focus on experimental performance practices and wide-ranging interests in transmediality, the visual arts, post-structural philosophy, semiotics and epistemology. She works as a performer, composer, sound artist, and graphic designer. After she dedicated the first decades of her artistic career to music performance with a special focus on Western new and experimental music, her work today focuses on the transformative power of artistic research. Her research milestones include the decisive contribution to the ERC founded project “MusicExperiment21” as a doctoral researcher (led by Dr. Paulo de Assis) and the foundation of a multi-disciplinary doctoral programme at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.
As an artist-researcher, she has explored new musical practices (especially the practice of “divergent performances” and “rhopophony”), new concepts (especially the concept of the “operator”), new methods (e.g. “techniques of minoration”), new epistemological frameworks (the tetrapartition of the relationship between knowledge and the unknown, the monadic approach to artistic research, the notion of the “knowledge rift,” the concept of “images of research”), as well as artistic-political concepts (“micro-formalism” and “micro-universalism”). Her research focus is strongly transdisciplinary and aims to challenge current approaches in music performance and composition by relating them to concepts and practices from other fields. Other areas of research include the critique of representation, the role of the human in relation to the non-human, the paradoxical relationship between writing and what escapes writing, the suspension of teleological temporalities, the status of the question in artistic research, and the Investigation of machinic ontologies. She is dedicated to the study of a particular line of post-structural philosophy that focuses primarily on the figures of Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Salvoj Žižek.
She is currently professor for artistic research at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.