Uncanny Landscapes

Uncanny Landscapes #4 - Stein Farstadvoll

Uncanny Landscapes #4 - Stein Farstadvoll

 

An interview by Justin Hopper with archaeologist Stein Farstadvoll. 

 

Stein Farstadvoll is an archaeologist of the contemporary world working in arctic Norway and based at the University of Tromso. His work images vestigial and out-of-place objects that contribute to uncanny places: from an abandoned landscape garden to the military ruins of the area’s World War 2 German fortifications. 

 

Links:

Stein’s instagram and twitter feeds are full of images and information.

 

You can read about the Boxgrove, West Sussex, horse butchery archaeological site on the BBC News site, here.

 

Host Justin Hopper has a website, too; twitter, even.

 

The music is Behind the Spiderweb Gate by Alison Cotton, from her new album Only Darkness Now, available from bandcamp.

 

Title sounds by The Belbury Poly courtesy Ghost Box Records

 

Icons by Stefan Musgrave / Firebrand Creative

Uncanny Landscapes #3 - Roei Greenberg

An interview by Justin Hopper with photographer Roei Greenberg

 

Roei Greenberg is an London-based Israeli artist whose photographs explore borders and boundaries, whether they are the ‘hot’ political borders of his home on the Israel-Lebanon border, or the subtle, implicit boundaries of the English picturesque. We spoke about his projects English Encounters and Along the Break; about contested landscapes; and about the ghosts that haunt our places, fighting for the chance to be seen. 

 

Links:

 

Roei Greenberg’s website - and, in particular, the projects English Encounters and Along the Break

His photographs ‘Grazing Area, the Ruins of the Arab Village of Kedes’, ‘Syrian Tank’ and 'Hinterland' are discussed in detail.

His RCA thesis exhibition is available online until 31 July. 

 

(Host Justin Hopper has a website, too; twitter, even.)

 

Music by Russell McAlpine

Title sounds by The Belbury Poly courtesy Ghost Box Records

Icons by Stefan Musgrave / Firebrand Creative

Uncanny Landscapes #2 - JR Carpenter

An interview by Justin Hopper with writer and artist JR Carpenter.

We spoke about her project This Is a Picture of Wind - a digital exploration of wind and language, now in book form from Longbarrow Press; about weather, climate change and imperialism; about mapping invisible systems, and about Vahni Capildeo's poetic response to Picture of Wind.

Links:

JR Carpenter's This Is a Picture of Wind (digital version)

This is a Picture of Wind from Longbarrow Press

JR's website

(Host Justin Hopper has a website, too; twitter, even.)

Music by Chris Cannon

Title sounds by The Belbury Poly courtesy Ghost Box Records

Icons by Stefan Musgrove / Firebrand Creative

Uncanny Landscapes #1 - Angus Carlyle

An interview by Justin Hopper with author and artist Angus Carlyle.

We spoke about his books of let’s-call-them-air-quotes-Nature-Writing that both reflect his lifelong love of the genre and some of the conflicts at its heart. About running through the downs at night. About nature writing and indices, and mental health, and hangovers, and about the dadaist bureaucracy through which he approaches the natural world.

There are a few technical glitches in these recordings. Please take these as they are - cracks, through which the light gets in.

Links:

Angus Carlyle's Night Blooms from Makina Books

Angus's website and his Twitter and, why not?, his Instagram

(Host Justin Hopper has a website, too)

Music by Teleplasmiste

Title sounds by The Belbury Poly courtesy Ghost Box Records

Icons by Stefan Musgrove / Firebrand Creative