Poetry performance I CAN SPEAK with and by Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino
The show is inspired by Andrey Tarkovsky’s 1975 film “Mirror”. The performance is autobiographical, unfolding through memories we revisit together. It highlights key moments in our lives that led us to discover our own language — the language of poetry.
On Air – On Site is a sound investigation of a temporary radio event consisting of a broadcast schedule of 48 hours of non-stop streaming, including live performances, fixed media, and radio artworks specifically composed for the festival by an international community of sound artists.
Selected for the edition 2025: Café Europa A radio drama by Sara Maino with Marina Kazakova
This is a poetic piece inspired by Sanguineti-Liberovici’s 1996 percussive and dithyrambic word work. Edoardo Sanguineti’s Rap sound theater with music and direction by Andrea Liberovici and the performance also by Ottavia Fusco greatly struck my imagination, hence the attempt of some sound experimentation in that direction. As in an old super8 film, with the noise of the film a little off track, the obsessive reiteration of an aesthetic concept of provocative and circular beauty.
Si tratta di un brano poetico ispirato all’opera percussiva e ditirambica di Sanguineti-Liberovici del 1996. Il teatro sonoro Rap di Edoardo Sanguineti con la musica e la regia di Andrea Liberovici e l’interpretazione di Ottavia Fusco ha colpito molto la mia immaginazione; da qui il tentativo di una sperimentazione sonora in quella direzione. Come in un vecchio film in super8, con il rumore della pellicola un po’ fuori traccia, porto la reiterazione ossessiva di un concetto estetico di bellezza provocatoria e circolare.
8/03/2005 Performance Palazzo dei Panni, Arco (TN)
Poetry performance I CAN SPEAK with and by Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino
The show is inspired by Andrey Tarkovsky’s 1975 film “Mirror”. The performance is autobiographical, unfolding through memories we revisit together. It highlights key moments in our lives that led us to discover our own language — the language of poetry.
Poetry performance I can speak a two-poet show by Sara Maino & Marina Kazakova
The show is inspired by Andrey Tarkovsky’s 1975 film “Mirror”. The performance is autobiographical, unfolding through memories we revisit together. It highlights key moments in our lives that led us to discover our own language — the language of poetry.
14 November 2024, h 18.00 Hey Heart Café, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
I can speak a two-poet show by Sara Maino & Marina Kazakova
The show is inspired by Andrey Tarkovsky’s 1975 film “Mirror”. The performance is autobiographical, unfolding through memories we revisit together. It highlights key moments in our lives that led us to discover our own language — the language of poetry.
Siamo molto onorate di partecipare al festival Ecophilia Now di Atene! Organizzato dal collettivo greco Part Suspended, il festival Ecophilia Now riunisce artiste e artisti da tutto il mondo per confrontarsi sul tema delle criticità ambientali con l’obiettivo di risvegliare l’amore profondo per la terra e il contatto con la natura. Il nostro contributo: – Sound installation/installazione sonora “Satellite liquido” (Sara Maino, 2024); presentata a La semaine du son Unesco (Bruxelles, 2024) e Sete Festival (Rovereto Italy, 2024). – Talk con il duo di performer-poetesse Marina Kazakova&Sara Maino; proiezione di video artistici e documentari sulla loro attività artistica che le ha portate a esibirsi in festival letterari internazionali (Irlanda, Italia, Stati Uniti, Olanda, Belgio, Bulgaria, Portogallo, Grecia).
We will present the sound installation Liquid Satellite (Sara Maino, 2024) alongside a talk featuring the performer-poet duo Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino. The talk will feature screenings of art videos and documentaries that highlight their artistic journey, which has led them to perform at international literary festivals in Ireland, Italy, the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Portugal, and Greece.
The ECOPHILIA NOW festival brings together over 20 diverse participants, including performers, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, activists, environmentalists, and poets from across Europe. With representatives from countries such as Greece, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Belgium, France, Romania, Ukraine and Denmark, the festival is international in scope.
The festival’s concept of “ecophilia” — a deep love for Earth and nature as a shared home for all beings — invites participants to nurture their connection with the environment. This focus on “philia” (friendship) with nature is a call to embrace a more caring, sustainable, and mindful approach to how we interact with the environment.
Description “I Can Speak” is a poetry performance presented by Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino. Loosely autobiographical, it incorporates poems composed and recited by the two authors, along with their individual monologues. It unfolds around memories revisited by the two poets, highlighting key moments in their lives that pushed them in discovering their own language — the language of poetry.
The show is dedicated to depicting the most crucial process that every person must undergo at some point—the process of “gathering” or “concentrating” one’s personality, discovering the language of your own.
This is a journey through the thorns of the contexts in which we are raised towards the stars of self-discovery.
Marina does this journey from the culture of silence, the environment of the crumbling of the Soviet regime. It is in silence that poetry, like prayer, arose in her. In contrast, Sara’s poetic journey originates from the meadow of Monte Velo in Trentino, Italy — a mythical gathering place where stories are shared in a circle every Sunday. The tales shared here connect the Trentino valleys to Sicily, Africa to Lake Garda; they traverse the ocean, reach America, and then return to a thousand meters Velo. At the same time, the meadow is encircled by mountains that obscure the horizon, creating a sense of confinement.
“I can speak” is both the voice of two artists in a challenging time, and the birth of a unique creative speech act.
“I Can Speak” is a poetry performance presented by Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino. Loosely autobiographical, it incorporates poems composed and recited by the two authors, along with their individual monologues. It unfolds around memories revisited by the two poets, highlighting key moments in their lives that pushed them in discovering their own language — the language of poetry.
The show is dedicated to depicting the most crucial process that every person must undergo at some point—the process of “gathering” or “concentrating” one’s personality, discovering the language of your own.
This is a journey through the thorns of the contexts in which we are raised towards the stars of self-discovery.
Marina does this journey from the culture of silence, the environment of the crumbling of the Soviet regime. It is in silence that poetry, like prayer, arose in her. In contrast, Sara’s poetic journey originates from the meadow of Monte Velo in Trentino, Italy — a mythical gathering place where stories are shared in a circle every Sunday. The tales shared here connect the Trentino valleys to Sicily, Africa to Lake Garda; they traverse the ocean, reach America, and then return to a thousand meters Velo. At the same time, the meadow is encircled by mountains that obscure the horizon, creating a sense of confinement.
“I can speak” is both the voice of two artists in a challenging time, and the birth of a unique creative speech act.
Ten-Minute Live Reading: Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
7:30 PM 7:40 PM
We are thrilled to welcome Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino to our Wednesday series of ten-minute live Zoom readings.
Please note that we are taking a break from the Wednesday readings after August.
7:30 – 7:40 pm EST
Hosted by David Lawton
The reading will be streamed live to our facebook page and you may also register to watch directly on Zoom. Registration for Zoom viewing is available through Eventbrite. Please register before 7:15 pm on the day of the event.
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