Conversations with Creatives
Welcome to Land Art Pod, where we explore the nature of creativity ~ from its source to its shared impact.
Each episode is an intimate conversation with a creative practitioner. We trace the forces and influences guiding their practice and the ways imagination both shapes and is shaped by the collective zeitgeist ~ how ideas arrive, what they ask of us and what it takes to give them form. From the practical to the philosophical, between craft and strategy, these conversations offer you a kaleidescope of lessons and insights to support and expand your creative skills, ideas and perspectives.
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Episode Highlights:
Cal Flyn
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.
Dive in to
- 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
Nahla Tabbaa
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.
Dive in to
- 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
Rouzbeh Rashidi
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.
Dive in to
- 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
Elizabeth Gleave
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.
Dive in to
- 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
Luke Spencer
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 Luke's 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.
Dive in to
- 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 to constantly produce
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𖥧 · Morgan Kulas · 𖥧
Morgan Kulas is a dance artist and educator whose work explores the poetry, potential, and phenomena of embodiment. Her creative and community led research contributes to the web of inquiry taking place at the intersection of decoloniality, ecology, and performance studies. Ensuing in contemplative artworks that perform embodied acts of resilience and repair. Morgan earned a BFA in Acting and Dance Performance from Chicago College of Performing Arts and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art & Regenerative Culture from University of New Mexico. The Land Art Pod is an expression of Morgan's transdisciplinary practice; as she is passionate about co-creating work that engages social change through collaboration and improvisation. This approach allows for a deeper interrogation of systems, relationships, and narratives, aiming to produce interconnected and healing outcomes to emergent ecological issues. She is honoured to be contributing to Land Art Collective's community and offerings. Read more.
