Landmark
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -How do you belong? Ideas about identity and culture are fused with the landscape, art, traditions, sacred spaces and a sense of place.
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Vietnam artist UUDAM TRAN NGUYEN
February 01, 2024 15:30 - 37 minutes - 69.4 MBFor 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...
EPISODE TEN: By The Rivers Of Amazon...
July 28, 2023 11:12 - 25 minutes - 46.1 MBI mentioned a QR CODE - but had to use this support link instead: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Landmark (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 Samuel Francis Johnson; the 3d audio water soundscape you heard was recorded with a hydrophone in the springs of Table Mountain by the artist Mia Thomm; Thanks to Micha Espinosa and Sara Matchett for the deep dive into an underst...
EPISODE NINE: Surviving the Deep
June 15, 2023 05:53 - 15 minutes - 35.7 MBI'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...
EPISODE EIGHT: Africa Unite
May 07, 2023 18:37 - 24 minutes - 44.3 MBAFRICA UNITE SYNOPSIS: We keep to ourselves most of the time. It’s convenient. When you’re put into a position of DIScomfort, something outside of your experience or culture or environment, you’re challenged to look at the reasons for discomfort. Uniting is not all roses and unicorns - it calls for an objectivity and openness that is a necessary aspect of personal development inside of your own community - which goes a long way to finding a sense of that Unite wherever you travel. Thanks ...
Bells For Tutu
March 16, 2023 06:45 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBLANDMARK EPISODE: 'Bells For Tutu' My podcast production time is a week for research and recording and a week for editing. No budget. If you are able to support this series, click on this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/2f2jkbsmvsw Episode Synopsis Theresa is Ashley's neighbour, and a bell ringer at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town. It’s a quirky hobby in a world of Facebook. It’s not long after lockdown that they drive to a rehearsal at the bell tower for a special occasion: The ...
EPISODE SEVEN: Bells For Tutu
March 16, 2023 06:45 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBLANDMARK EPISODE: 'Bells For Tutu' SHOWNOTES The legacy of a series such as this one would be a marker of our present time as a nation, presenting an engaging audio experience for any listener as a stand alone creative platform. Please share with your communities! Landmark on Spotify: Landmark Able to Support this podcast? Support via Buy Me A Coffee: https://bmc.link/Landmark Suggestions and offers for sponsorship of the series: [email protected] Episode Synopsis Theresa is...
EPISODE SIX: 'Living Heritage'
January 10, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBOn Freedom Day in April 2021, we listened to the plea from the Khoi first nation for a recognition that was effectively stripped from them since the beginning of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa. The underlying question is: what does it mean to find meaning in culture? Does THAT offer a way to find a sense of who you are - a sense of belonging? And how far back do you go? Is ancient tradition always valid? So I went back to someone I met on freedom Day, at the Khoi resistance march:...
EPISODE 6: 'Living Heritage'
January 10, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBOn Freedom Day in April 2021, we listened to the plea from the Khoi first nation for a recognition that was effectively stripped from them since the beginning of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa. The underlying question is: what does it mean to find meaning in culture? Does THAT offer a way to find a sense of who you are - a sense of belonging? And how far back do you go? Is ancient tradition always valid? So I went back to someone I met on freedom Day, at the Khoi resistance march:...
EPISODE FIVE: Inside Out/Outside In
November 29, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThree land artists from Tankwa Artscape 2020 residency reveal illuminating concepts about identity and landscape. The Tankwa Artscape is an artists' residency in the Northern Cape region of the Tankwa Karoo desert: https://tankwaartscape.co.za "Imagine a desert floor, undisturbed by human traffic. It’s not the absence of life that is so dramatically visual. It is a few million years old retrospective of ancient seabed and cataclysmic geological events in Earth history, and the footprint o...
Ep 5: Inside Out/Outside In
November 29, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThree land artists from Tankwa Artscape 2020 residency reveal illuminating concepts about identity and landscape. The Tankwa Artscape is an artists' residency in the Northern Cape region of the Tankwa Karoo desert: https://tankwaartscape.co.za "Imagine a desert floor, undisturbed by human traffic. It’s not the absence of life that is so dramatically visual. It is a few million years old retrospective of ancient seabed and cataclysmic geological events in Earth history, and the footprint o...
EPISODE 4: Searching for The Hero
November 02, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBWhat we learn from history is that no one seems to learn from history: What if we were to embrace epic literature again, with its eternal lessons from the past and rebounding tropes of greed and empire that we still see in politics today? Can it still teach us about what constitutes heroism? Or more specifically, can we learn to find our own sense of heroism, which comes down to the most basic level of consciousness: to be present and attentive. That’s what we’re searching for here on ‘Land...
EPISODE FOUR: Searching for The Hero
November 02, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBWhat we learn from history is that no one seems to learn from history: What if we were to embrace epic literature again, with its eternal lessons from the past and rebounding tropes of greed and empire that we still see in politics today? Can it still teach us about what constitutes heroism? Or more specifically, can we learn to find our own sense of heroism, which comes down to the most basic level of consciousness: to be present and attentive. That’s what we’re searching for here on ‘Land...
EPISODE THREE: Guardians of the Cape
October 01, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBSUMMARY Landmark: episode 3 “Guardians of the Cape” Summary The tombs of Indonesian spiritual leaders surround the Cape (Western Cape, South Africa). The Holy men or Tuans, whose bodies are in these tombs, were heroes in the Cape Muslim community. They provided hope and kept the practice of Islam alive in a society where it was outlawed. In this episode, Fatima Holliday interviews Sheikh Fakhruddin Owaisi on Cape Muslim History. He tells us of the first muslims brought to Cape Town in t...
EPISODE TWO: Nation Building
September 01, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBLANDMARK: episode two “Nation-Building” DATE: 01.09.2021 SUMMARY: A National Identity seems as illusory as the concept of ‘Self’. When there are eleven official languages, and many others which didn’t make the cut, it seems impossible to find what forms that halo of belonging. Especially if your historical identity was obliterated by historical genocide. As early as 1510, the first nation Khoi faced off with a Portuguese viceroy on the Western Cape coastline. The legacy of that event stil...
The Source
August 01, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBA 'South African nation' is a term that resonates with complexity. It is within that complexity that stories are found. Stories of individuals- artists, explorers of various kinds, traditional healers as well as historical voices -reflect a universal notion of what we mean by 'South African'. It is the emotional connection to a nation that highlights our universal humanity. In hearing, for example of springbok fly-half Makazole Mapimpi's rugby jersey having no pictures of people who had stoo...
EPISODE ONE: The Source
August 01, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBA 'South African nation' is a term that resonates with complexity. It is within that complexity that stories are found. Stories of individuals- artists, explorers of various kinds, traditional healers as well as historical voices -reflect a universal notion of what we mean by 'South African'. It is the emotional connection to a nation that highlights our universal humanity. In hearing, for example of springbok fly-half Makazole Mapimpi's rugby jersey having no pictures of people who had stoo...