DASHA REDKINA

DASHA REDKINA is a sound recordist and DJ, poet and vocal experimentalist, photographer and event curator.

She was born in Russia, in 1985, into a family of artists and architects. After elementary education in Kiev and then Moscow, her parents sent her to Burgess Hill School in England. She is a graduate of London Metropolitan University, where she undertook a BA in Sound and Film. She is currently studying a music course at Goldsmiths University and plans to undertake a masters degree the following year (2010).

Her deep interest in other cultures and the diversity of our planet has led her to travel wide and adventurously, trekking in Nepal and Vietnam, travelling across Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and China on the TransSiberian train, where she made a close encounter with a shaman by Lake Baikal. This has inspired her to research on the subject and she is now developing a documentary about shamanism for Stonedog.

She was a producer at events company Interactive Media, in Moscow (2004), where she led projects such as electronic music events and live concerts (including bands, such as Moloko). She was a production assistant on the short, ‘Normal Film’ (2008, London) directed by Afia Nkrumah and the sound recordist/boom operator/ translator/editor on ‘A Russian Fairytale’ (2009), a documentary film about street children in Perm, Russia, directed by Jake Mobbs (arussianfairytale.com).

She is currently a lead developer and the Coordinator of Dogtail Cabaret, Stonedog's alternative contemporary entertainment event which will commence in January 2010 and will continue monthly at the Proud Camden Gallery (London). Dasha developed the entire concept with Ishmael Annobil, influencing policy and format with her deep interest in the diversity of art, and by selecting international cutting-edge artists for the event.