WGXC-90.7 FM
unknown sounds: Nina Danino on unknown sounds
90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley and wgxc.org/listen everywhere
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Produced by Elena Botts.
Guest this month:
Nina Danino is an artist and filmmaker. She has made experimental and feature films including Stabat Mater (1990) and "Now I am yours" (1992). Temenos (1998) a feature film on sacred landscapes is published by the British Film Institute in "History of the Avant Garde" (2004). Nina Danino’s fifth and most recent feature film MARIA (2023) on the transfiguration of the opera singer Maria Callas.
Nina Danino is also a vocalist and performer in recent and new projects. She lives and works in London.
Artist’s Website. www.ninadanino.co.uk
@reginadanino
https://ninadanino.bandcamp.com/
"unknown sounds" is intended as a radio archive of experimental artists’ interior worlds, these that are externalized through their work, and the interchange through artist communities. This is an contemporary archive of experimental art-making in communities around the world, the inherent politicism of art, and the social change this may or may not represent. In short, it is intended mostly as a look into these small worlds, with the idea of generating more thought on both human fallibility and potential, and how art can engender hope. Each section here is meant as a studio visit, but also a glimpse into the doings of a wider community and the cultural, political repercussions of experimental sound and art-making.
"unknown sounds" is produced by Elena Botts and organized by the unknown sound collective, an experimental international multimedia collective.
Elena Botts has lived many places in the northeast and abroad. Elena's poems and writings have been published in over a hundred literary and scholarly magazines. Elena has been the winner of four poetry contests and has had many books published. Elena's visual artwork has won numerous awards and has been exhibited in various galleries. Elena has collaborated on, released, and installed sound and moving image artwork, as well as multimedia and conceptual art, and has organized a multimedia collective for this purpose, while pursuing graduate school and academic, policy, and activist work and projects.

