WHAT THE LAND REMEMBERS WHEN WE CANNOT
GENERAL INFO
- FORMAT
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Interview
- LANGUAGE
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English
- YEAR
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2025
- COLLABORATOR
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Radio Relativa
- EPISODE BY
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Jess Zamora-Turner, Valerie Prinz, Kutlwano Ramphele, Irina-Anca Bobei, Tamara Kalo, Abri de Swardt
In a time increasingly marked by landscape amnesia—the slow, creeping loss of memory embedded in place—we ask what it means to grieve with the land, and what the land remembers when we can not. This episode explores grief as something more-than-human—grief that lives in and through landscapes, soil, water, silence, and perhaps always moves through us. Through six speculative terrains, we wander through disorientation not as something to overcome, but as a companion. Storytelling becomes a way of coping, a collective practice of moving with, and being moved by, land. This is a multi-directional practice, a field guide, possibilities to choose when facing a crossroad, a weathering of intensities, a resequencing of earthly encounters.
Special thanks to: Theodora Stefan, Domingo Zamora, Wojciech Kosma, Alice Hattrick, Saarah Jappie, Ronelda S. Kamfer, Amy Watson, Jonathan Cane, Dania Shazly, Nada Alfayez, Naziha Alsayed Ansari. Motheo Ramphele, Nokuphumla Matye, Vuyisa Ramphele.