How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast is currently inactive and not releasing new episodes.

Where can I listen to this podcast?

This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

Does this podcast accept guests?

Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

Landmark

Claim This Podcast

by Ashley Dowds

5.0(1 reviews)

11 episodes

Updated Inactive

Accepts GuestsHas Sponsors

Podcast Overview

How do you belong? Ideas about identity and culture are fused with the landscape, art, traditions, sacred spaces and a sense of place.

Language

🇺🇲

Publishing Since

8/1/2021

Visit Website View on Apple Podcasts RSS Feed

1 verified contact email on file for Landmark

Pitch yourself as a guest, propose sponsorships, or reach out directly to the host.

See contact details

Recent Episodes

February 1, 2024

Vietnam artist UUDAM TRAN NGUYEN

For a 'Studio Walkthrough' See below transcription. Uudam lives and works in HoChiMinh City, Vietnam. He was born into an artist family in Kontum, central highland of Việt Nam. Having attended the University of Fine Arts in Sài Gòn (HCMC) as a young artist, he takes a strong lead from his late father, also an artist, who abandoned the war in the 70s and was sent to a re-education camp, before the family was able to move to the USA, where Uudam studied at UCLA and then achieved his Master of Fine Arts at School of Visual Arts in NYC. His work ranges from conceptual sculpture, drawing, installations and video to robotics art & performances. His art provokes with shocking clarity a rethinking of social issues, global power relations, our natural environment that struggles under an overwhelming expansion of cities such as Ho Chi Minh. He has exhibited widely in many museums and Biennales in Asia, Europe and the US. UuDam is one of the co-founder of the XEM collective. “Whether the interaction between humans and technology, the tension of political borders between sovereign states, conflicts among humans, the slippage of perception of reality, they are an in-between space, an interface that results in us.” <a href="http://VYgallery.com">VYgallery.com</a> Describe yourself in three words. Artist? Provocative? Stubborn! So you get to America as a family, the whole family leaves together, right? Yes, the family leaves together. And what was his impression? How did he respond to America? And how did you respond? He loved it. We all loved it. This is of course the enemy. You know, we don't think about it as an enemy. No, I don't. If you sit down and you say, "Oh, yeah, you fought America." "What was the real enemy?" Yes, you know, we think, "Yes, there was a time. There was a time that we were enemies." But America has a very favorable viewing of the Vietnamese. Because a lot of enemies fled to America after the war and before the war. And they sent over, you know, a lot of money to help the economy and the relatives here. And so I think you come to Vietnam and you can see its kind of shocking that the animosity between the old enemy, you know, and the Vietnamese virtually didn't exist. So we went there, you know, with the idea that we want to study at the best universities. We don't ever talk about, it just doesn't come up to our mind that, you know, "Well, that's your enemy teaching you." Not until you get into the conversation and you dissect it. And yeah, okay, who wins, who won, and what happened... Music: 'Mystical Guzheng Journey' produced by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/vprodmusic-15585617/" target="_blank">VPRODMUSIC</a> UuDam's studio walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlm4cMR7YNwm8Hvj7cPyGHdYcj7o23K8

July 28, 2023

EPISODE TEN: By The Rivers Of Amazon...

I mentioned a QR CODE - but had to use this support link instead: <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Landmark">⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Landmark⁠</a> (There is a button on the page for payment submissions - the virtual coffee translates to my production time.) CREDITS Music design for this episode was by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/samuelfrancisjohnson-1207793/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Samuel Francis Johnson</a>; the 3d audio water soundscape you heard was recorded with a hydrophone in the springs of Table Mountain by the artist <a href="https://www.miathom.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Mia Thomm</a>; Thanks to Micha Espinosa and Sara Matchett for the deep dive into an understanding of voice and ritual, to Tauriq Jenkins for his cultural perspectives on the Two Rivers confluence, and for Daily Maverick for use of that extract from Cormac Cullinen: <a href="https://www.wildlaw.net/resources-and-library/daily-maverick-webinar-should-nature-have-rights">https://www.wildlaw.net/resources-and-library/daily-maverick-webinar-should-nature-have-rights</a> <a href="…When any First Nations peoples who have lived in intimacy with a place over thousands of years fight to protect a place they consider sacred, it would be wise for the rest of us to listen carefully and learn from their perspectives. This is important to promote reconciliation and healing within our divided society… " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Comprehensive assessment of the Cultural significance </a> PODCAST OUTLINE Recently, a Lamentation ritual was held at the Liesbeek and Black river confluence, Cape Town, to express the sense of outrage but also the centuries of cultural evisceration that has occurred to first nation groups in South Africa. The event was shared by a group from Arizona, led by Micha Espinosa, Professor at Arizona State University who regularly collaborates with the performance art group La Pocha Nostra. Her response to Trump's 'No Tolerance' policy at the US-Mexico border, that separates parents and children who cross the border articulated a similar sense of outrage. The event was also a collaboration with SARA MATCHETT, associate professor at the University of Cape Town’s The Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, and a group who shares the vision of embodied vocal work - what some have termed 'Sonic Activism'. The voices of the two performers in this episode were those of Ntombi Makhutshi and Adriana Jamisse. THE RIVER If you look in the direction of Table Mountain - or ‘Hoerikwaggo’ - to what hikers call Devil’s Peak, you’re facing the Liesbeek river source. Like the spring water arteries that move under the city of Cape Town, there is a sense of continuity with an ancient history. A sense of sacred place that makes it a place of ritual and worship. Amazon's presence here at the river site has created division - some have favoured the employment opportunity that Amazon claims to offer - in a country with one of the heftiest unemployment rates - as well as the promises that Amazon has made to build an indigenous heritage centre and clean up the wetlands area around it. The argument is that the river confluence and wetland area is surrounded by highways - what developers claim has been a neglected space occupied by a dilapidated golf course, parking lot, dump site, and a heavily polluted river. Exactly why the presence of a multi national might have some meaningful contribution to make. Others find those claims laughable, coming from a multi national with the track record of employee exploitation in other countries. However you see the dispute here about land rights, what is clear is that there is deeply felt attachment to this area. The sense of injustice that was felt from the first time land was divided up by a Colonial governor. Here’s an entry from the Dutch East India journal 6 April 1660: " ..This day peace was renewed at the Fort with the captain and chief … and all the principal and oldest of the tribe … They dwelt long upon our taking every day for our own use more of the land, which had belonged to them from all ages, and on which they were accustomed to depasture their cattle They asked, wether, if they were to come into Holland, they would be permitted to act in a similar manner…" IN CONVERSATION WITH MICHA ESPINOZA Ref. Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-Frontera-Mestiza-Gloria-Anzald%C3%BAa/dp/1879960850">https://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-Frontera-Mestiza-Gloria-Anzaldúa/dp/1879960850</a>

June 15, 2023

EPISODE NINE: Surviving the Deep

I've been digging into the archives to find this story again - the one I usually reference as a Good Story told by a true raconteur. I'd met him in the Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape, where he was overseeing the maintenance of an accommodation site. He'd arrived in South Africa en route a Commonwealth Games event, having sailed from St Helena island (where Napoleon Bonaparte had been banished) and had stepped off the ship at the foreshore in Cape Town. Within hours he'd met the woman he was going to marry... The intriguing story you hear is told as I'm checking out of the above accommodation - he'd told it to me over dinner and promised to tell me again when I had my mic handy! I often think about it because there are so many questions still. If this was a hard-nosed journalistic quest, I may have pushed beyond diplomacy. You'll probably have some of the same questions. Please let me know what they are! Contact via: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LandmarkPodcast">https://www.facebook.com/LandmarkPodcast</a> If you've enjoyed the episode - or value the series, please support at Buy Me A Coffee: <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Landmark">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Landmark</a> Ashley Dowds PODCHASER tracker 6ntiwNbp8NFdGJQb5QdP

11 total episodes available

Deep-dive analytics for Landmark

Frequently asked questions

Have a different question and can't find the answer you're looking for? Reach out to our support team by sending us an email and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

What is Landmark?: How do you belong? Ideas about identity and culture are fused with the landscape, art, traditions, sacred spaces and a sense of place.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates inactive.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

Legal Disclaimer

Pod Engine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with any of the podcasts displayed on this platform. We operate independently as a podcast discovery and analytics service.

All podcast artwork, thumbnails, and content displayed on this page are the property of their respective owners and are protected by applicable copyright laws. This includes, but is not limited to, podcast cover art, episode artwork, show descriptions, episode titles, transcripts, audio snippets, and any other content originating from the podcast creators or their licensors.

We display this content under fair use principles and/or implied license for the purpose of podcast discovery, information, and commentary. We make no claim of ownership over any podcast content, artwork, or related materials shown on this platform. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

While we strive to ensure all content usage is properly authorized, if you are a rights holder and believe your content is being used inappropriately or without proper authorization, please contact us immediately at hey@podengine.ai for prompt review and appropriate action, which may include content removal or proper attribution.

By accessing and using this platform, you acknowledge and agree to respect all applicable copyright laws and intellectual property rights of content owners. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use of the content displayed on this platform is strictly prohibited.