‘Marvels of the Mer du Nord’
Sound installation,   
Production 2022 

Recording and audio editing: Sara Maino
Storyteller: Ronald Desaever

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. 
“The sound installation is especially created by me as a tribute to Koksijde and to the traditional fishing for shrimps on horseback - an activity that only takes place on the coast of Belgium and is considered a UNESCO heritage site - which impressed me a lot. The first thing I think, by looking at the huge Brabant horses entering the sea for the purpose of fishing, is its unnaturalness. A horse usually plows the fields, but not the water!It seems like against the law of nature. Something uncommon, unusual. And that’s what makes this activity so fascinating and attracting: its magic and marvelous”.
In the audio recording you will hear the sequence of three episodes: one is the procession to the sea of 6 horses with chariots driven by shrimp fishermen one summer morning. 
Alternatively, you will hear other two stories narrated by Ronald, a 70-year old neighbour who lives in Sint Idesbald. He tells the memory of the “frozen sea”, something incredible that happened on this coast about 60 years ago, when the sea suddenly turned into ice for the prolonged severe low temperatures of that time.
The second story is about a big, very big stinking fish that landed one day on the beach: its smell was perceived from afar and for a long time.
All the stories are linked by amazement and marvel, and they put in relationship the position of the listener, the observer of memories and the narrator.

Marvels of Mer Du Nord

Cafè Europa
Audio Drama, 14’41, 2023

Poems and Voice by Sara Maino and Marina Kazakova
Editing and Direction Sara Maino

Soundscapes recorded by Sara Maino all around Europe
Sound effects from the free archive of BBC Rewind
Traditional Music played on a radio (Katioucha Otchi Tchornye performed by Sirba Octet)

About the piece
Two characters (Europa and the East-Comer) meet in a café in an unknown city. They confess their visions, feelings and memories to each other, giving the sense to seemingly solipsistic monologues.

Supported by Research Foundation Flanders and LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven
Premiered at Festival internazionale di poesia Palabra en el mundo di Venezia 2023

Cafè Europa

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Un diario-racconto di straordinaria efﬁcacia descrittiva e insieme capace di andare in profondità, di scavare nel proprio mondo e nel mondo dell’altro senza timore di far emergere la verità scomoda della difﬁcoltà di potersi accettare nella propria diversità.
Dalla prefazione di Pietro Kuciukian, Console onorario della Repubblica d'Armenia

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Pianoforte: Lorenza Marzari

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Multimedia artist, poet and performer, film and theatre director. 
Amo raccontare, leggere e scrivere. Fare video, ricercare e "teatrare". Amo ascoltare e far imparare ad ascoltare. E dipingere. Puoi leggermi sul mio sito. www.saramaino.it

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