SARA MAINO MYPROFILE
EDUCATION
University of Trento
BA of Philosophy
Euroscuola High School
Secondary diploma, focus on languages and literature
SKILLS
Creativity
Flexibility
Listening
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Leadership Teamwork
Research
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I am a professional multimedia artist with 20 years of experience in project management, education, sound and video art, and cultural community initiatives
WORK EXPERIENCE
Multimedia Artist
Sara Maino Multimedia Professional Artist
Jan 2009 - present
RAI Radio Televisione Italiana
Trento, Milan 2012 - 2017
LUISS University Guido Carli
Rome 2014-2015
AllegroModerato Inclusive music school
Milan 2016-2017
Education expert in acoustic ecology projects, performer, installations’ creator, cultural project manager (Italy, Belgium) Author, multimedia expert and filmmaker.
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Statement about
“The Unbounded nature of a border”
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Dear Team / Organizers
I am interested in working with the Szczecin community on the sonic perception of the border between Poland and Germany, between East and West, and between North and South, exploring the theme of water in an acoustic sense.
Seeking inspiration for this work on the theme of the boundary and the nature of its insolubility, I wondered about the perception of the boundary, understood as that of our body-skin-ear, that of the imagination, and that of the physical-territorial I tried to decline what the border is for me I was born in Arco, at the confluence of three regions and three provinces A narrow portion of territory, with only one outlet on the water, Lake Garda, for me synonymous with light and hope.
I now live between Italy and Belgium, and drawing a hypothetical map with Szczecin at the center, it still comes out as a confluence of three main places (Arco, Koksjide, Szczecin), forming a triangle I would like to investigate acoustically the Polish territory included within this map, together with the people, interviewing them about their sonic memories, and their hopes
“The emotion of hope goes out of itself, makes people broad instead of confining them, cannot know nearly enough of what it is that makes them inwardly aimed, of what may be allied to them outwardly The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong” declares Ernst Bloch
The purpose of this journey is to involve the community in the writing of an encyclopedia of hopes, of Blochian inspiration, to be realized in the form of a participatory and collective sound installation
S A R A M A I N O M . A . S T A T E M E N T
Sara Maino
portfolio
SATELLITE LIQUIDO
Photoalbum
(LANGUAGEANDMEMORYOFICE)
8channelsoundinstallationonacommunitybasedprojectwitha finalparticipativeperformance
The composition blends sounds of Brussels’ fountains with 3 choirs, recorded in the urban context, interpreting the noise of melting glaciers in Trentino. The aim is to make people aware of environmental issues and preserve the unique and endangered “language”oftheTrentinoglacier.
Lasemaineduson2024(selectedwork) MusicalInstrumentsMuseum(MIM),Bruxelles
DA-NO EMBRYOLOGY OF INSPIRATION 2022
Photoalbum
‘MarvelsoftheMerduNord’ Windowsoundinstallation2022
This sound installation is a special production for the Galerie Welnis and is part of the exhibition ‘Da-No: Embryology of Inspiration’ by Sara Maino and Marina Kazakova. All the stories narrated by the storyteller Ronald Desaever are linked by amazement and marvel, and they put in relationship the position of the listener, the observer ofmemoriesandthenarrator.
SO, WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION? 2019
Photoalbum
‘Poetryperformancewithsoundinstallationonatypewriter
‘So, What Is Your Question’ is a 2019-formed collaboration between the two artists Sara Maino (Trento, Italy) and Marina Kazakova (Russia). The point of departure of their artistic creation is the interplay of the two selves (two poets) as well as the interplay between the poet and the world. The duet reflects on the idea of a conversation as the core of a creative process, dialogic structure as theheartofourcreativethinking,andalsoofbuildingrelationships.
SOUNDWALKANDACOUSTICWORKSHOPS
Soundwalksareopportunitiestocontemplatetheenvironment aroundushavingtheearasthemainsenseofreference.Thequality ofthesoundscapehasagreatinfluenceonthelivesofits inhabitants,becausehearingisafundamentalsenseforthebalance oftheneuralsystem.Itisveryimportanttoappropriatethesound aroundus.Itisaboutgivingourselvesanopportunitytovalue,pay attentiontothesoundsthataccompanyusinourdailylives,which gomostlyunnoticed,unheard.Itisaboutlearningtolisten.
EGOCUM
audio-videoinstallation
ExploringanddocumentingthethemeofconflictwithinthePergine community: this is the goal that led to observing, listening, and interviewingelders,immigrants,adults,youthandchildreninvolving theminreal“expressiveworkshops.”
Thus,individualstoriesandsharedsymbologiesemerge,whichgo ontocreateanimaginarydialogue,abeingcum,since,asJean-Luc Nancysaid,“theegoisonlythinkableinrelationtoothers.”
PergineSpettacoloAperto,PergineValsugana(Italy)
TEMPORA ET AURIS
2011
Video
TEMPORAETAURIS(THETIMESANDTHEEAR)
audio-videoinstallationcuratedbyGiovannaNicoletti
On the occasion of the 2011 Free-Climbing Festival, the video installation "tempora et auris" by Sara Maino (Arco, 1970) is inspired bythestratificationofacousticmemories,expressedbythesymbolic placesofBoscoCaproniinArco:thecliffface,dedicatedtoclimbing, of the former oolitic limestone quarries, used for extraction of the stone from the mid-19th century up to the second half of the 20th century.
MAGMuseumGalleriaGiovanniSegantini,Arco (Italy)
Marzadro wineries' interactive soundscapes, within a collective art exhibition.
NARRARE IL TERRITORIO 2010-2017
NARRATINGTHETERRITORY seriesofworkshopsonacousticecology
Davide Ondertoller and Sara Maino are the creators and curators of the festival 'Portobeseno, a journey through historical sources and websources'heldinBesenoCastleinTrentino. Since 2009 they have been designing and implementing nationwide workshop activities related to conscious listening to environmental sounds and community histories, collecting and representing them with archives, digital maps, creative productions andinstallations AltaVallagarina,Trentino(Italy)
MICROSTORIE DAL PAESAGGIO
MICROSTORIESFROMTHELANDSCAPE
Interatctivesoundinstallation
This installation offers short life stories and landscape’s sounds of Alta Vallagarina Valley in Trentino: among them the community of Besenello, the mountain of Scanuppia, the Cavallo/Rossbach river, the old mills of Dietrobeseno and Calliano, the National Road SS 12 nearCastelpietra. ThePlexiglas"soundbox"isinteractive.
Castel Beseno, Festival della Creatività Firenze Tempio di Adriano Roma2009,TempoRealeFirenze,ArtVerona2011
LEAVINGTRACKS
Interatctivesoundinstallation
Eachvisitorwhoventuresamongtheroomsofthecastlecanusethe installation to leave a sonic trace of his or her passage. His or her memory thus intersects with the voices of the people interviewed andisconstitutedasanintegralpartofanever-changingsoundand tangibleidentity.
A landscape made of sound, thought, emotion; of data from reality and knowledge from the past; of imagination; of connections and activationsofacircuitofmemorythatisthepresentbarelytouched.
Photoalbum
Soundinstallation
Individualaudiostoriesthatcreateacollectivehistory. The aim is to create a sense of memory that educates to listen and relate to each other. They enhance each person's journey on this earth, convey emotion, teaching. Above all, they can teach us something about ourselves and our common past. Because by knowing our roots well, we can tap into a depth made up of stories and knowledge, moving toward a responsible, conscious and sharedethic.
MEMORIA DI LINGUA E FESTE
2005
Photoalbum
MEMORYOFLANGUAGEANDFEASTS
Soundinstallation,2005
Individual audiostories have been collected in the Alta Vallagarina valley since 2005. They have been edited and offered on a special tablewiththeaimtocreateacollective“round”listening.
FestivalPortobeseno,2005
CastelBeseno(Italy)