The Saltwater Songlines Podcast

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Embodied Terrain Video Podcast : Earth Arts Talks

Below are some Episodes from the archives, from 2020 and 2021.

We are community. We are wholeness.
We need one another; we are part of each other.

During the first breaths of 2020, I had been planning my next Saltwater Songlines journeys;
Hawai’i, Haida Gwaii, a long sojourn on a northern island in Norway.
Teaching earth-yoga in Germany.
Onward to the Yucatan, Patagonia, returning to Hawai’i.
A year, in total.

I’d been planning on walking more Saltwater Songlines, making images, dancing in Place.
Talking and Listening with Elders and Wisdom keepers, Art Makers and Others.

And then COVID19 wove itself into our lives.

And the Earth’s axis shifted.
Literally, in fact, as the Inuit reported, although this happened a little prior.

As I sat with our emerging reality, I wondered how I might at least have some of these important conversations.
And I realised: ZOOM! We can still do this!
Well, the talking and listening parts, anyway.
And Saltwater Songlines Earth Arts Talks was born.

A virtual sailing the seas and waking the littoral zone, at least from my Shelter in Place room and via the interwebs.
Talks with Arts Makers around the World.
Talks with other Earthkeepers, Traditional Wayfinders, and Ecologists, Climate Scientists, eventually . . .

Enjoy the evolving Library below.

Be Welcome,
Be loved.
Deep Beauty always,
Narelle

Dr adrian harris

patricia watts

The Direct Link to play in Vimeo here >

Patricia Watts is the founder of ecoartspace, a platform for artists addressing environmental issues. She's a pioneering curator who has organized over thirty art and ecology exhibitions including Performative Ecologies (2020), Contemplating OTHER (2018), Enchantment (2016), FiberSHED (2015), Shifting Baselines (2013), MAKE:CRAFT (2010), and Hybrid Fields (2006). In 2020, she developed a membership model that currently consists of over 400 artists, mostly from the United States, as well as Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Spain, Canada and Australia. ecoartspace presents monthly Zoom Dialogues featuring members work focused on a range of topics and is active on social media. Watts is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

More about ecoartspace can be found on their website
And their Instagram presence

From Patricia, Please Note:
1. @2:06 Mentioned artist, Dennis Oppenheimer, who made deer with flames coming out of antlers. The artists name is Dennis Oppenheim.

2. @3:50 I mentioned Earthworks and Beyond, which was written by John Beardsley, not Lucy Lippard. Lippard wrote Overlay in the 80s. Those two books were the foundation of the art and ecology movement.

3. @6:36 The children's museum I mentioned in St. Louis is City Museum.

Related to the Covid experience;
Within our chat, Patricia mentioned she experienced, or noticed, two responses in this ecology that was our encounter with Covid-19; folk either went into a fast moving actioned life, or went into something akin to collapse or implosion. I experienced and observed something different:
I watched myself consciously enter a deep amniotic space, allowing the waters of grief and other emotions to arise. A great tissue tiredness washed through my entire Organism. Yes, remnants from the past several years, but something else as well. As I ‘went to ground’, I experienced a profound visceral rinse and re-set. On every level. I watched the world slow down. I watched the planes come out of the sky, and I observed a great attenuated spaciousness in both my own consciousness, and that of those with whom I was interacting online. Something genuinely new had the opportunity for its slow genesis. Or perhaps, its own re-finding, recalibrating and reconfiguration. What did you experience of this time? How has this truly changed something within you, and what will you do with that? I’d love to hear; you can write to me via the Connect Form xo

peter appel

Direct Link to our Talk on Vimeo, is here >

I've know my friend and colleague Peter Appel, for over a decade. Peter has developed a unique body of work sourced in listening and attending to the body's natural ways of movement; Movingness. Join us for this lively conversation between Australia and Finland.

In Peter’s words:
If I’d describe myself shortly, I’d say I’m a body-mind explorer. I’m passionately trying to figure out how our minds express themselves through our flesh and bones. And how our bodies surprisingly show up in our minds and sometimes totally take control. This – to make it even more intriguing – is something I’m exploring in myself as a personal body-mind inquiry. I’m also inviting my students to start their individual journeys. And – to almost invite a headache! – I’m also looking at how it plays out in our community and on a global level. As one of my students once wrote: “The ’problem’ always comes back if not deconstructed with insight.” Peter Appel is an internationally acclaimed embodiment teacher. He’s a yoga teacher in four traditions, dance facilitator, mental trainer, writer, and the founder of Movingness.

More can be found about Peter's work at movingness.com
and on his IG account @movingness_com

stephanie gottlob

Direct Link to Earth Arts Talk with Stephanie Gottlob (opens direct in Vimeo)

One of us lives in a Van and travels through different North American Biomes, the other lives aboard a sailboat and various Marine ecosystems, predominantly (currently) in Australian waters. Both, are practicing Artists in dance improvisation with the land, and making images and films. Join us as we talk about how living and improvising within the experience of the land and sea, changes your perception, experience of your self, and your evolving consciousness.

From Stephanie:
I am an improvisational movement artist. Over a year ago, I began to follow a calling of embodying the various natural biomes of North America. I bought a truck camper and for the past 15 months I have been living, dancing, meditating, filming and photographing in remote parts of Nature exploring movement improvisation, creative process, and somatic experiences on, and with the landscape. Each biome that I have thus far explored – deciduous forest, lake, arctic tundra, swamp, grasslands, river – reveals something new about somatic embodiment and artistic expression. While in Nature, I improvise with various elements of the landscape: water, color, mountains, sounds, rock, mud, grass, heat, roots, wind, empty space. It is a somatic approach to creativity and art.

You can read more about Stephanie’s work here >

deb lisyak

Direct Link to Earth Art Talks with Deb Lisyak on Vimeo (opens in Vimeo)

I’ve known my friend Deb for over three decades. More than half our lives. In this precious conversation, we talked about the Central Australian desert, and Waiting; and about what brings us to this Place. We talked about India and enlightenment. We spoke about consciousness, about space and time and the edge of death. We spoke about the no-thing. About the Sound. About bowing down the head in reverence to the heart. Please join us!

Deb comes from a background of teaching in the performing arts; theatre, dance & circus. She has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1984 and started teaching in 1999. Deb is Certified to teach in the Iyengar tradition and has also trained and taught Anusara yoga. She is Certified to teach Remedial & Restorative yoga. Deb is a passionate and joyful teacher who believes that yoga is a powerful & practical transformational tool not only to heal the body but to calm the mind, enhance confidence and nurture happiness. She travels to India regularly to study Yoga Philosophy, Buddhism and Hatha Yoga under various teachers.

You can watch some of Deb’s wonderful fun short Vid clips on her Instagram account @yogainsightwithdeb

Dawn Chandler