Erik DeLuca is an artist and musician working with performance, sculpture, text and social practice. He has lectured, performed, and exhibited at a variety of places including MASS MoCA, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, The Contemporary Austin, The Living Art Museum (Iceland), Columbia School of the Arts, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, CalArts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Fieldwork: Marfa, and Yale University School of Art. He received a PhD from the University of Virginia, lectured at the Iceland University of the Arts (2016-18) and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Multimedia at Brown University (2018-20). He currently teaches in Experimental and Foundation Studies at RISD.

During the festival, Erik will lead a conversation with artists as part of Pass Me Not.