Uncanny Landscapes

By Justin Hopper

Excursions into the otherwise. Interviews, reviews and discussion of our strange and estranged relationship to landscape.... more

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September 17, 2020 Uncanny Landscapes #5 - The Belbury Poly
Uncanny Landscapes #5 - The Belbury Poly

An interview by Justin Hopper with musician and record-label head Jim Jupp.

Jim Jupp records music as The Belbury Poly, and releases his own music as well as that of many others via the Ghost Box Records label he operates with designer Julian House. His latest record, The Gone Away, is a concept album based on fairy lore and touching on ideas of ephemerality and memory in landscape and life.

Links:
The Ghost Box website and twitter feed provide info on Jupp and the label.

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

Music and title sounds all by The Belbury Poly courtesy Ghost Box Records

Icons by Stefan Musgrave / Firebrand Creative
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54min
August 13, 2020 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
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49min
July 30, 2020 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
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57min
July 19, 2020 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
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49min
June 29, 2020 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
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43min

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