Synovium Podcast

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21 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud

  1. DAWN HURTON ON HER FICTIONAL MUSEUM IN RURAL CUMBRIA

    25 oktober 2026 · 43 min

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    Dawn Hurton is a contemporary sculptor based in Dufton, Cumbria, in the North Pennines. Working with rag pulp, plant fibre, pony hair, barytes and earth pigments, her practice explores the relationships between people, labour and the land. Her current project, The Dufton Hoarde, is an artist-made Museum of Rural Memory rooted in the lead-mining villages and worked landscape surrounding her home. Combining sculpture, text, moving image and invented museum records, it asks what counts as evidence, how stories acquire authority, and what remains when accumulated knowledge of place is no longer carried forward. Lees meer

    You can learn more about Dawn at her website www.dawnhurton.com and on Instagram @dawnhurtonartist

  2. RIMA STAINES ON PAINTING THE REALMS OF MYTH, MAGIC, AND FOLKLORE

    25 oktober 2026 · 59 min

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    Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her work explores the edges of culture and consciousness in media from painting, music, writing, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, to clock making, mask making, theatre, puppetry, book arts and animation. Lees meer

    Rima’s visual world is steeped in melancholy, story-rich and alchemical. Her detailed paintings are often made with oils on found wood - icons rooted in animism that feel simultaneously both strange and familiar.

    She has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - the edges and hedges, the boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”.

    Her paintings have been exhibited and published internationally and hang in many private collections worldwide. She was co-founder and co-director of the Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre and small press. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Best Artist category of the World Fantasy Awards. She is a mother to two young sons and lives and works in South Devon halfway between the moor and the sea.

    You can connect with Rima at https://rimastaines.com and on Instagram @tilsamka

  3. AHMAD NABIL ON IMAGINATION AND DOCUMENTING PARANORMALS IN PALESTINE

    25 oktober 2026 · 46 min

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    Ahmad Nabil is a Palestinian, Jerusalem-based visual artist, researcher, and educator whose practice explores folklore, storytelling, ritual, and the paranormal as forms of intangible Palestinian heritage, with a particular interest in their connection to the natural world. His work traces how myths, superstitions, and inherited stories continue to resonate in the present, carrying memory, imagination, and belonging across generations. In 2015, he founded The Fiction Council in Jerusalem, a platform that celebrates Palestinian imagination through research into Arab and Islamic mythology, folklore, superstitions, and paranormal phenomena, and their reactivation through contemporary art. He is the author and illustrator of Hidden Companions: Paranormals from the Old City of Jerusalem. Lees meer

    You can connect with Ahmad on Instagram @djinnabad and through The Fiction Council @the_fictioncouncil

    Photo by Eggy Ding

  4. 🌹 MYTH, MAGIC, & MAYHEM: ARTIST HIGHLIGHT COLLECTION COMING OCTOBER 25TH, 2026

    12 oktober 2026 · 2 min

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    Coming Soon... Lees meer

    Artwork by Rima Staines

  5. 💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ CALLING ALL CRAFTS FOLK

    22 augustus 2026 · 4 min

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    💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ CALLING ALL CRAFTS FOLK by Morgan Kulas, Elizabeth Gleave, & Land Art Collective

  6. 💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ HOW YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE IS INFLUENCING REALITY

    22 augustus 2026 · 14 min

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    💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ HOW YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE IS INFLUENCING REALITY by Morgan Kulas, Elizabeth Gleave, & Land Art Collective

  7. CAL FLYN ON WRITING THE MYSTERY OF WILDERNESS

    17 juni 2026 · 32 min

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    Cal Flyn is a bestselling author, writer and journalist from the Scottish Highlands. This conversation moves through her relationship to landscape, the discipline of paying close attention, and what it means to listen to a landscape. Cal and Morgan talk about sensory notetaking, letting go of control, and why getting words on the page can matter more than getting them right. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Writing a place ~ choosing what to emphasise and what to leave out • Sensory and emotional notetaking as a foundation for landscape writing • Building a writing routine that works with your natural rhythms

    • How to handle critique in ways that strengthen rather than silence your voice • Accepting the agency of the nonhuman world as a creative and philosophical practice

    • Why publishing imperfect work builds more resilience than waiting for it to be ready

    Follow her on Instagram or visit her website to connect https://www.calflyn.com!

  8. KATIE GROVE ON WEAVING WILD BASKETS

    5 april 2026 · 49 min

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    Katie Grove is a basket weaver and educator based in New York's Hudson Valley, whose practice is rooted in foraging, seasonal plant knowledge and the slow work of making by hand. This conversation moves through her relationship to landscape, the emotional life of creative wounds and what baskets hold beyond their contents. Katie and Morgan talk about reciprocity with land, teaching from a place of care and why what children watch adults do can matter more than what they are told. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Home as deep connection with land rather than location ~ mountains, rivers and the desert Southwest

    • Baskets as containers for intention, community and meaning

    • How early creative wounds shape adult makers ~ meeting students where they are

    • The intimacy of foraging and following plants through the seasons

    • Motherhood and the long game ~ patience, balance and what gets passed on without words

    • Community as a container for transformation ~ the slow work of re-learning belonging

    Photo of Katie Grove in her studio is by Costa Boutsikaris

    Visit Katie's website at https://www.katiegrovestudios.com

  9. ROUZBEH RASHIDI ON A MACHINERY OF DREAMS

    25 maart 2026 · 1 uur 44 min

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    Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian-Irish experimental filmmaker and founder of the Experimental Film Society. This conversation moves through his experience of exile and displacement, his resistance to the capitalist urge for relentless productivity and his understanding of cinema. Rouzbeh and Morgan talk about embracing liminality, making art from mistakes and wounds and why the act of creation is itself an act of resistance. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Approaching cinema as process over product

    • Why slowness and deep engagement matter more than prolific output • Embracing liminality ~ neither here nor there ~ as generative creative ground • Making work from mistakes, limits and wounds

    • Building radical, non-hierarchical communities as the ground for creative practice

    • How the act of creation itself becomes an act of resistance in dark times

    Visit Rouzbeh on Instagram or at https://rouzbehrashidi.com & https://experimentalfilmsociety.com

  10. NAHLA TABBAA ON THE ALCHEMY OF FOOD, PLACE, & BEAUTY

    3 maart 2026 · 51 min

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    Nahla Tabbaa is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans food, botany, ritual and plant-based making. This conversation moves through her relationship to home as something constructed rather than inherited, her familial roots spanning Syria, Jordan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, the kitchen as an alchemical space, and what it means to create beauty as an act of resistance. Nahla and Morgan talk about somatic healing, micro interventions and how critical thinking anchors creative work in the real world. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • The kitchen ~ unlearning recipes and rediscovering the agency of ingredients

    • Why creating beauty through food, decoration and ornamentation is an act of resistance

    • How micro-interventions ~ small, meaningful gestures ~ accumulate into impactful change

    • Constructing a sense of home internally and through chosen communities • Using critical thinking to ensure your work responds to real contexts

    Visit Nahla on Instagram or at https://nahlatabbaa.com

  11. ELIZABETH GLEAVE ON WEAVING CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS

    1 februari 2026 · 55 min

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    Elizabeth is a creative strategist, educator and co-founder of Land Art Collective. This conversation moves through the roots of the collective ~ how it grew from a personal need for creative community ~ and into the practical work of helping artists share their practice with intention. Morgan and Elizabeth talk about place as anchor, creativity as a survival strategy and what it means to tend your creative source. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Why what we most need ourselves is often what we're most able to offer others

    • How to approach sharing your work strategically without losing authenticity

    • The role of place ~ a river, a path, a landscape ~ as anchor for creative practice

    • Treating digital platforms as spaces for genuine connection rather than performance

    • How community sustains creative practice over the long term

    Visit Elizabeth on Instagram or at https://www.elizabethgleavestudios.com

    Our Membership Programme = www.landartagency.com/members
    Lessons in Listening 2026 Creative Residency: Online & In Person = www.landartagency.com/listeninghome
    Talks & Workshops = www.landartagency.com/onlineevents
    Shine Online = www.landartagency.com/shineonline
    The Language of the Land = www.landartagency.com/landlanguage
    The Creative Earth Directory = www.landartagency.com/creativedirectory
    Or begin at the Land Art Home Page = www.landartagency.com

  12. KING LEXIE ON HER PERFORMANCE WORK PRAISE CAGE

    22 december 2025 · 59 min

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    King Lexie is a performance artist and facilitator. This conversation moves through her performance work Praise Cage, the experience of living and making from uncertain ground and what it means to hold space for what is usually unwanted or excessive. King Lexie and Morgan talk about somatic practice, the politics of affirmation and what it means to embrace being too much. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • The felt sense of being held by people, land, and practice

    • Migration, belonging and making safety

    • Making space for process, improvisation and slow creative unfolding

    • Praise Cage ~ radical affirmation, collective praise and the exploration of desire and boundary

    • Liminality as productive ground ~ existing between roles, disciplines and identities as creative resource

    • Championing what is unspoken, unwanted, or excessive

    Visit Lexie on Instagram or at https://www.theconsultorio.com/who-i-am

  13. VICTORIA GRAY ON PERFORMING SENSORY POETICS & AUTISTIC JOY

    22 december 2025 · 1 uur 16 min

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    Victoria Gray is a performance artist and movement practitioner based in the north of England. This conversation moves through her experience of a late autism diagnosis, chronic pain and the process of creating art from the body's own knowledge. Victoria and Morgan talk about sensory processing, the practice of unshaming and why creativity for some people is less a career than a form of survival. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Home as a state of constant searching ~ growing up in South Shields and Jarrow and the complexity of belonging

    • Neurodivergence and the liminal ~ masking and living persistently in the in-between

    • Creative practice as medicine and self-regulation rather than vocation or hobby

    • The artist as integrator ~ weaving self, body, psyche and world into meaning

    • Making Welter ~ how the body's knowledge arrives ahead of thought

    Visit Victoria at https://www.victoriagray.co.uk

  14. ROBERTA TRENTIN ON MYCELIAL WAYS OF KNOWING

    22 december 2025 · 51 min

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    Roberta Trentin is a multidisciplinary eco-artist who works in collaboration with the materials and the unknown outcomes. Her work explores overlooked stories of fungi, microorganisms, and plants in the more-than-human world. A background in science and a love of the earth result in an interweaving of macro/micro observations and deeply personal stories in her work. Roberta splits her time between the forests of the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn where she lives with her two sons. Lees meer
  15. JULIE CHEN ON BUILDING END OF LIFE LEGACIES THROUGH ART

    22 december 2025 · 46 min

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    Julie Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose art examines the remnants of beings and place. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, a BFA in Multimedia and Performing Arts from the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and certification in End-of-Life care (death doula). Alongside being an artist, Julie is also a designer and educator in art, architecture, and design. Lees meer

    https://artistjuliechen.myportfolio.com

  16. ROBERTA TRENTIN ON MYCELIAL WAYS OF KNOWING

    27 september 2024 · 51 min

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    Roberta Trentin is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of fungi, photography and community practice. This conversation moves through her relationship to grief, neurodivergence and the mycelial world as a model for living and making. Roberta and Morgan talk about liminal ways of knowing, working with living materials and why the hidden, underground work matters as much as anything visible. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Art as necessity rather than profession or interest

    • A critique of urgency in creative culture

    • Receiving an ADHD diagnosis ~ wrestling with labels and arriving at curiosity

    • Mycelium as a model of entanglement, reciprocity and process over object

    • Mushroom gardens and workshops as platforms for horizontal community and mutual inspiration

    Visit Roberta on Instagram or at https://www.robertatrentin.com

  17. LUKE SPENCER ON VULNERABILITY & COLLABORATION IN PHOTOGRAPHY

    25 oktober 2023 · 39 min

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    Luke Spencer is a photographer and artist from the south coast of England. This conversation moves through his relationship to landscape and memory, the role of vulnerability in creative practice and Lukes relationship with creative healing. Luke and Morgan talk about sensory intuition, collaborative trust and why slowness in art-making can be its own form of resistance. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Processing difficult emotions through creative practice

    • Nude self-portraiture as a tool for emotional reflection

    • Collaborating with movement artist Jenna on "This Too Shall Pass" ~ letting embodied response guide the visual

    • Challenging conventional masculinity by making space for vulnerability and openness

    • How slowness and gentleness in making respond to a societal pressure

    Visit Luke on Instagram or at https://www.lukerspencer.com

  18. JOHN FRIEDRICK ON PASTORING & JOURNAL SONGS

    6 september 2023 · 45 min

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    John Frederick is a pastor, musician and artist based in Silverton, Oregon. This conversation moves through his journey out of fundamentalist Christianity toward a contemplative and questioning spirituality and creative practice. John and Morgan talk about journal songs, ecological consciousness and why creating cultures of belonging requires making room for brokenness and second chances. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • Place-making in Silverton ~ honouring Indigenous histories and building community

    • Deconstructing inherited belief ~ Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr and the discovery of an inner, loving self

    • Accountability and making space for those often left out

    • Embracing imperfection and liminality ~ becoming like a child as a generative state for art and spirit

    • Journal songs and comics ~ slow, open-ended making rooted in lived experience • Holding heartache and comedy together

    Visit John on Instagram

  19. NATALIE STOPKA ON THE SENSUOUS POTENTIALITY OF PLANTS

    20 juli 2023 · 45 min

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    Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator based in Yonkers, NY, whose practice centres on natural pigments, foraging and working with local plant ecologies. This conversation moves through her relationship to so-called invasive species, the colonial history of ornamental gardening and what it means to cede control to material process. Natalie and Morgan talk about emergent design, reciprocal foraging and why abundance is a better frame than threat. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • A sense of home that is plural and fluid

    • Questioning the native/invasive binary ~ reframing abundance and dynamism in plant populations

    • How the history of ornamental gardening is entangled with colonialism and acquisitiveness

    • Ceding control to material process ~ experimental prints shaped by flux, entropy and decay

    • Emergent design and somatic knowledge ~ trusting the body as much as the plan

    • Habits of attention as practice ~ slowness, sensory presence and refusing the digital attention economy

    Visit Natalie on Instagram or at https://www.nataliestopka.com

  20. ELIE PORTER TRUBERT ON DECOLONIZING WALKING & EPHEMERAL SCULPTURE

    21 juni 2023 · 49 min

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    Elie Porter Trubert is a New Jersey artist who works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, audio, and photography. She is driven by a deep connection to nature, concern for the environment, and an interest in non-traditional art spaces. She has developed an ongoing contemplative walking practice that involves the creation of ephemeral, site specific sculptural works assembled from gathered natural materials. These pieces allude to impermanence, interconnectedness, and attunement. Lees meer

    She creates “circle meditations” during her walks and leaves them for human and more-than-human others to find. Ultimately they will be washed or blown away, or changed by natural processes. She documents her ephemeral pieces using photography and video and has been exploring the role of those media in the work. In recognition of her positionality, Elie began a “re-gifting” practice of returning what she had previously taken in an attempt to undo the damage and potential violence of those actions. Going back in time in a sense, she creates work using materials sourced over many years. The resulting pieces are offered back in apology and in an expression of gratitude.

    Going forward, in terms of using materials sourced from nature in her work, Elie is developing and internalizing a process and approach for a walking-with practice with the goal of fostering a relationship with the more-than-human that is healing, consensual, and reciprocal.
    A long-time nonprofit arts leader, Elie led The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, New Jersey until last year. Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Sala752 in Zaczernie, Poland and ASC Gallery in London, England. She has a BA Studio Art from Kenyon College and is an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico.

  21. REBECCA ZABLOCKI ON CHRONIC ILLNESS & CRAFTING FROM BED

    26 maart 2023 · 44 min

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    Rebecca Zablocki is a New York born; Connecticut based interdisciplinary artist. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School in 2014, and is currently pursuing an MFA in the Confluence MFA program, a low-residency interdisciplinary program dedicated to regenerative culture based at the University of New Mexico. She creates work about chronic illness, using fibers and found objects. Lees meer