Rob St John
@robsaintjohn.bsky.social
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The full film from @robsaintjohn.bsky.social and Kate O’Farrell’s Are You Lost? project — exploring the diverse voices, histories and ecologies around the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire — is now available to watch online www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/are-...
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The full film from @robsaintjohn.bsky.social and Kate O’Farrell’s Are You Lost? project — exploring the diverse voices, histories and ecologies around the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire — is now available to watch online www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/are-...
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Tomorrow at the National Gallery @robsaintjohn.bsky.social is performing field recordings, drones, spoken word by the good people of Lancashire & live viola d’amore played by Scott King. Landscape w people. I'll be interviewing Rob, free in, come along:
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...
September 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tomorrow at the National Gallery @robsaintjohn.bsky.social is performing field recordings, drones, spoken word by the good people of Lancashire & live viola d’amore played by Scott King. Landscape w people. I'll be interviewing Rob, free in, come along:
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...
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Two weeks until KRANKENHAUS opens w a @thequietus.com double bill of moving image & words:
Me & @robsaintjohn.bsky.social on the fragile body in militarised landscapes from Örö to the Cumbrian coast.
@jahduran.bsky.social & Sapphire Goss on death & subterranean Liverpool.
krankenhausfestival.com
Me & @robsaintjohn.bsky.social on the fragile body in militarised landscapes from Örö to the Cumbrian coast.
@jahduran.bsky.social & Sapphire Goss on death & subterranean Liverpool.
krankenhausfestival.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Two weeks until KRANKENHAUS opens w a @thequietus.com double bill of moving image & words:
Me & @robsaintjohn.bsky.social on the fragile body in militarised landscapes from Örö to the Cumbrian coast.
@jahduran.bsky.social & Sapphire Goss on death & subterranean Liverpool.
krankenhausfestival.com
Me & @robsaintjohn.bsky.social on the fragile body in militarised landscapes from Örö to the Cumbrian coast.
@jahduran.bsky.social & Sapphire Goss on death & subterranean Liverpool.
krankenhausfestival.com
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It's not town vs country, whatever the culture warriors might tell you. It's money and power vs people.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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June 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It's not town vs country, whatever the culture warriors might tell you. It's money and power vs people.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New Uncanny Landscapes podcast episode - an interview with Rob St John about his work listening to landscapes and communities. uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/listening-...
Listening with Rob St John: Uncanny Landscapes podcast S2E5
Artist, musician and writer Rob St John discusses his new projects listening to the landscapes and communities of NW England - and what it means to listen and be listened to.
uncannylandscapes.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New Uncanny Landscapes podcast episode - an interview with Rob St John about his work listening to landscapes and communities. uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/listening-...
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A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.
Solidarity of the Ruling Class
A new book by a former <i>Shooting Times</i> editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough,…
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June 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.
News of the Are You Lost? installations across Bowland this summer.
Film, sound, textiles made with people and place.
www.robstjohn.co.uk/portfolio/ar...
Film, sound, textiles made with people and place.
www.robstjohn.co.uk/portfolio/ar...
May 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
News of the Are You Lost? installations across Bowland this summer.
Film, sound, textiles made with people and place.
www.robstjohn.co.uk/portfolio/ar...
Film, sound, textiles made with people and place.
www.robstjohn.co.uk/portfolio/ar...
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My good pal @robsaintjohn.bsky.social was on Countryfile last night - sharing the joys of the Forest of Bowland, from 19 mins 30 secs:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Countryfile
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My good pal @robsaintjohn.bsky.social was on Countryfile last night - sharing the joys of the Forest of Bowland, from 19 mins 30 secs:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The new Are You Lost? podcast is out today, featuring amazing young people from Yes Hub in Nelson talking about access to Bowland and Pendle, connections to nature, and their everyday lives.
Tune in!
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Tune in!
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Ep.5 – Pendle’s Hidden Gems — a Yes Hub podcast
Podcast Episode · Are You Lost? · 19/04/2025 · 45m
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April 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The new Are You Lost? podcast is out today, featuring amazing young people from Yes Hub in Nelson talking about access to Bowland and Pendle, connections to nature, and their everyday lives.
Tune in!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Tune in!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
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‘Listening is slow, careful work. Generational work. Epochal work.’
Director & choreographer Ruth Allen introduces ‘Everything Happens for a Season’ — a film made with @robsaintjohn.bsky.social which asks: What does it mean to listen to the world? www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/ever...
Director & choreographer Ruth Allen introduces ‘Everything Happens for a Season’ — a film made with @robsaintjohn.bsky.social which asks: What does it mean to listen to the world? www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/ever...
April 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
‘Listening is slow, careful work. Generational work. Epochal work.’
Director & choreographer Ruth Allen introduces ‘Everything Happens for a Season’ — a film made with @robsaintjohn.bsky.social which asks: What does it mean to listen to the world? www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/ever...
Director & choreographer Ruth Allen introduces ‘Everything Happens for a Season’ — a film made with @robsaintjohn.bsky.social which asks: What does it mean to listen to the world? www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/ever...
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The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f...
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First Sight of Land
For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.
www.monbiot.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f...
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The new Are You Lost? podcast features chats with walking guide and historian Nick Burton on the Nick of Pendle and archaeologist Dr Rick Peterson at the Fairy Holes Cave above Whitewell in the Forest of Bowland.
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Ep.4 – Bowland’s radical histories and prehistoric archaeologies
Podcast Episode · Are You Lost? · 19/03/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The new Are You Lost? podcast features chats with walking guide and historian Nick Burton on the Nick of Pendle and archaeologist Dr Rick Peterson at the Fairy Holes Cave above Whitewell in the Forest of Bowland.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
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'A symbol in the sky – a moon, star or cloud formation – acts as an anchor ...They are illusions of balance and peace formed through temporary stillings of a world made increasingly strange.'
@robsaintjohn.bsky.social considers Richard J. Butler’s micro-topographies https://buff.ly/3EMNlNW
@robsaintjohn.bsky.social considers Richard J. Butler’s micro-topographies https://buff.ly/3EMNlNW
February 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
'A symbol in the sky – a moon, star or cloud formation – acts as an anchor ...They are illusions of balance and peace formed through temporary stillings of a world made increasingly strange.'
@robsaintjohn.bsky.social considers Richard J. Butler’s micro-topographies https://buff.ly/3EMNlNW
@robsaintjohn.bsky.social considers Richard J. Butler’s micro-topographies https://buff.ly/3EMNlNW
Enjoyed chatting with Benjamin Tassie for his Future Classical show on Resonance FM.
Strange and enjoyable to look back on a decade of destroying sounds and putting them back together again.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/fu...
Strange and enjoyable to look back on a decade of destroying sounds and putting them back together again.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/fu...
February 25, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Enjoyed chatting with Benjamin Tassie for his Future Classical show on Resonance FM.
Strange and enjoyable to look back on a decade of destroying sounds and putting them back together again.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/fu...
Strange and enjoyable to look back on a decade of destroying sounds and putting them back together again.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/fu...
New sound installation opening at the weekend in York, alongside an exhibition of Rose Ferraby’s new work.
Geophone drones, pipe organs, bells, hydrophones in the flooded river etc etc
Free, and on until late 2024.
Geophone drones, pipe organs, bells, hydrophones in the flooded river etc etc
Free, and on until late 2024.
February 7, 2024 at 5:07 PM
New sound installation opening at the weekend in York, alongside an exhibition of Rose Ferraby’s new work.
Geophone drones, pipe organs, bells, hydrophones in the flooded river etc etc
Free, and on until late 2024.
Geophone drones, pipe organs, bells, hydrophones in the flooded river etc etc
Free, and on until late 2024.
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Friday! Morecambe! @robsaintjohn.bsky.social & I are performing a live collaboration in response to his work on the Finnish island of Örö: Rob's films & sonics, me reading about the universal in military ecologies & the human body & desire set against it. Free in.
jwllrs.eventcube.io/events/53488...
jwllrs.eventcube.io/events/53488...
November 28, 2023 at 2:39 PM
Friday! Morecambe! @robsaintjohn.bsky.social & I are performing a live collaboration in response to his work on the Finnish island of Örö: Rob's films & sonics, me reading about the universal in military ecologies & the human body & desire set against it. Free in.
jwllrs.eventcube.io/events/53488...
jwllrs.eventcube.io/events/53488...
Looking forward to this. Collab with @luketurner.bsky.social at Lancashire's best new art space on 1st Dec.
Words, films, sounds on islands, military, sexuality, new naturez etc.
And its free! j-e-w-e-l-l-e-r-s.net
Words, films, sounds on islands, military, sexuality, new naturez etc.
And its free! j-e-w-e-l-l-e-r-s.net
November 16, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Looking forward to this. Collab with @luketurner.bsky.social at Lancashire's best new art space on 1st Dec.
Words, films, sounds on islands, military, sexuality, new naturez etc.
And its free! j-e-w-e-l-l-e-r-s.net
Words, films, sounds on islands, military, sexuality, new naturez etc.
And its free! j-e-w-e-l-l-e-r-s.net