FE6.6 - Landings

About this episode

This episode explores the relationship to land and belonging through conversations with various artists and writers.

We’ve got something a little different for you: something a little less in the sciences, and a little more in the humanities — in the realm of language and human experience. Today, through a series of conversations, we’re exploring the notion of what it means to have a relationship to land, to be or not be of a place (in other words, to belong or not) and how the intrinsic tensions in all that may be metabolized through the practice of art, and more importantly, that of life. Our co-producer and interlocutor for this episode is Darby Minott Bradford : poet, editor, translator, and the author of Bottom Rail on Top . Our guests are author Jordan Abel ( Nishga , Empty Spaces ), multi-disciplinary artist S F Ho ( Green Lines ), and poet Cecily Nicholson ( Wayside Sang , Harrowings ) Music by Thumbug

People in this episode

Host: Darby Minott Bradford

Guests: Jordan Abel, S F Ho, Cecily Nicholson

Topics covered

• relationship to land
• belonging
• human experience
• art
• language
• tensions in life

Keywords

• land
• belonging
• art
• human experience
• language
• tensions

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Bottom Rail on Top, Nishga, Empty Spaces, Green Lines, Wayside Sang, Harrowings

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