Luminous: Conversations On Sacred Arts

Nov 21 2024 61 ep. 62 mins 12
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Conversations with inspired and inspiring artists, scholars, thinkers, of all walks of life and approaches to the sacred. Hosted by Dr Peter Bouteneff.

  Arts  Education  Religion & Spirituality
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Helena Tulve: Channeling Creation

Nov 21 2024 83 mins  
It’s rare that one encounters a soul so vastly creative, and so clearly attuned to the things-that-are. Helena Tulve’s diverse compositional oeuvre finds its common thread in that attunement. She expresses herself with warmth and with precision. Our conversation begins on the subject of the Jesus Prayer and takes right off from there.

Kim Haines-Eitzen: Desert Sounds, Desert Silence

Sep 12 2024 64 mins  
Kim Haines-Eitzen adds to a rich body of work with her most recent book, an exploration of the desert soundscapes that may have shaped the lives and writings of the ancient desert ascetics. We talk about this, and more, in a conversation I recorded from my forest hideaway in Estonia.

George Kordis: Art in Church and Secular Culture

Jul 23 2024 64 mins  
In his art and in his thought, George Kordis articulates his ideas with breathtaking clarity. And he is one of the world’s great living iconographers. Enjoy this conversation, recorded in front of a live audience at St. Vladimir’s Seminary.

Mona Arshi: Poetry and Defamiliarization

Mar 21 2024 59 mins  
Mona Arshi brings all of herself to her poetry: her background as a human rights lawyer, a family lineage deeply embedded in the poetic, and a keen observation of the world—with a commitment to recognize and subvert patterns within that observation. All this makes her a very special interlocutor on her artistic medium.

Aidan Hart: Creation is a Poem of Love

Feb 22 2024 63 mins  
Aidan Hart works in multiple media—painting, sculpture, carving, mosaics—to create liturgical art of stunning beauty. As an author and speaker, he also reflects deeply on the nature of the sacred arts, stemming from a profoundly theological vision of creation. Our Luminous conversation, recorded in his studio in Shropshire, visits all these places.

A Tribute to Ivan Moody

Feb 01 2024 72 mins  
This special episode of Luminous is a tribute to Fr Ivan Moody—composer, scholar, musicologist, conductor, who impacted so many people and constituencies with his musicality, erudition, warmth, and infectious joy. With guests Alexander Lingas, Peter Phillips, Ivana Medic, Svetlana Poliakova, and Maria Takala-Roszczenko.

Vesper Stamper: Into Sharp Relief

Jan 04 2024 63 mins  
Vesper Stamper writes books for some of the most discerning and important audiences: young adults. And others, but it’s this audience that informs much of our conversation. Her illustrations are as clear and articulate as her writing, and together we are swept up into a narrative of history that means everything.

Nicholas Samaras: Attentiveness and the Sacred

Jun 08 2023 53 mins  
This conversation with award-winning poet Nicholas Samaras is a reminder of what life can be like when we listen, pay attention, and hear the musical lyricism of the world. This is at the heart of poetry, and his in particular.

STUDYING THE SACRED ARTS

May 25 2023 47 mins  
On this special episode of Luminous, our host talks with two students in the MA Program at the Institute of Sacred Arts. This is an opportunity to meet two exceptional people, and to hear about the work and ethos of our Institute!

Jennifer Awes Freeman: Gleaning the Message of the Arts

Apr 27 2023 63 mins  
Apart from our enjoying the arts, even being spiritually uplifted by them, the sacred arts are carrying a message, even a “teaching” that we can attune ourselves to receive. Today’s guest is herself attuned to this, among other dimensions of the arts, which she teaches, writes about, and practices herself.