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Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and thinkers exploring the intersections of place, culture, and health. From ancient folk traditions to contemporary therapeutic practice, these conversations ask what landscapes, physical, imagined, and remembered, do for us.
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Fiction as a Therapeutic Device: Simon O’Sullivan on Landscape, Ritual and The Ancient Device (opens the original)
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In this episode, John Cussans speaks with Simon O’Sullivan, philosopher, artist, writer, and member of the performance group Plastique Fantastique, about his 2024 fiction The Ancient Device, published by Triarchy Press. The conversation explores how fiction, ritual, performance, landscape, and therapeutic practice come together in Simon’s work. They discuss the book’s journey through English ceremonial landscapes, mummers’ plays, rave and traveller culture, wounded characters, internal worlds, a
Dreams Made Visible: Agni Kapuscinska on Live Art, Nature and the Language of the Soul (opens the original)
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In this episode, Rebecca speaks with Agni Kapuscinska, a live art performance artist whose work moves between performance, video, photography, ritual, dream, landscape, and visual poetry. The conversation focuses on Agni’s project My Soul Speaks Through My Dreams, a body of work created through live performance, photographic images, and video, with performances taking place outdoors in the Peloponnese in Greece. Agni reflects on how particular places, especially the landscapes of the Peloponnese
Threading Ancestral Knowledge: Becky Dodman Wainwright on Chumbe Weaving, Colombian Heritage and Ethical Research (opens the original)
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In this episode, Rebecca speaks with Becky Dodman Wainwright, Postgraduate Course Leader for Arts University Plymouth (AUP) and textile researcher/artist, whose work explores ethical research methods, Colombian heritage crafts, and the repair of lost mixed-heritage connections. Together, they discuss Becky’s personal and creative journey into Colombian textile heritage, including how questions of colour, ancestry, family history, and Indigenous Colombian identity led her towards the study of chu
Making the Museum Feel Alive: Emalee Beddoes on Folk Art, Rural Craft and Cultural Stewardship (opens the original)
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In this episode, Rebecca speaks with Emalee Beddoes, Curator of Collections & Engagement at Herefordshire Museums & Galleries, about museums, folk art, rural craft, co-production, and the process of reimagining historic collections for contemporary communities. Emalee shares what it means to work as a curator of both collections and engagement, and how her role moves between research, object care, public programming, community work, craft activities, artists, volunteers, and the development of a
Beyond The Wicker Man Effect: Sophie Parkes-Nield on Calendar Customs, Folklore and Fiction (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Therapeutic Landscapes podcast, Rebecca speaks with Sophie Parkes-Nield, writer, researcher, and folklorist, whose work explores how calendar customs and intangible cultural heritage are represented in contemporary fiction. The conversation begins with Sophie’s practice-based PhD research, which she is now developing into a monograph for University of Exeter Press. Her work asks why writers are so often drawn to folkloric material, what calendar customs do within fiction,
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