Installations / Design
Though there are scenic elements, they occur in concert with their environment, like art installations taking advantage of the buildings, the neighborhood, and even the time of day. The dusk night sky lends itself to stunning visuals of downtown in particular. Immersive environments provide more varied sensory input than traditional theatre. Soundscapes are employed in many locations, with an emphasis on blurring the boundaries of the noise of the environs, whether physical or mental.
—Theatre Jones
Dragon Eye
Experimental Ethnography / Photo & Media Installation
SP/N Gallery / Dallas
January-March 2024
Dragon Eye
Dead White Zombies
Site-Specific Performance Installations & Set Design
select examples
DP92 / Omega Room
Karaoke Motel / Installation Detail
T.N.B. / CCTV installation
Karaoke Motel / Cabinet of “Measures of Death”
Open Archive
Experimental Ethnography Installation / Photos, Video, Objects
Red Arrow Contemporary / Dallas
Riccio’s video for Open Archive shows shamans, traditional singers and dancers, and unfinished situations in indigenous people's daily lives. It is less like looking at ethnographic field data and more like watching a global psychodrama. Psychodrama is a therapeutic method developed by Jacob L. Moreno, who felt, as Jeremy Rifkin mentions in his book The Empathic Civilization, “that the nature of human beings is to be creative and that living a creative life is key to human health and well-being.
—Richard Bailey, Glasstire
Not So Indifferent
Media Installation / in collaboration with Frank Dufour
Central Track Gallery / Dallas
We are all method actors now.
Such is our general situation in an era of so much difference but not so indifferent
DuFour and Riccio are rather delightfully uncategorical, with cross-disciplinary backgrounds defined by eccentric expertise. This collaboration promises to combine "digital media with site-specific design to create an existential drama - a performance that features the viewing public as lead actors.
—Peter Simek / D Magazine
The Invention of Memory
Media Installation / in collaboration with Frank Dufour
Central Trak Gallery / Dallas
Box of Memory and Loss
Their contribution echoes Rauschenberg's visceral assemblages of common materials. Fraught with associations, the ambiguity of this object/experience speaks to the inscrutable nature of producing meaning in the art world.
—Art Lies / Texas