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The Transmute Tapes by Maison Douce
The Transmute Tapes by Maison Douce
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Welcome to "The Transmute Tapes," a podcast by Maison Douce, an art collective from Germany led by Lotte Hauss and Marc Thaddaeus Suess.
The Transmute Tapes bring you insightful commentary on contemporary art, immersive performances, and exclusive interviews with visionary artists and creatives worldwide. Each episode delves into a unique story, inspiration, or the creative process of our guests, offering a global perspective on modern artistic practices.
As an art collective, we aim to reconnect with the primal forces of ancient rituals, myths, and symbols. We believe in the enduring significance of these expressions of the collective subconscious, that we find in stories, sacred places, and folk traditions.
Discover inspiring talks, audio documentaries or art performances.
Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform and visit our website at [maison-douce.com](http://maison-douce.com) for more information and artworks.
The Transmute Tapes bring you insightful commentary on contemporary art, immersive performances, and exclusive interviews with visionary artists and creatives worldwide. Each episode delves into a unique story, inspiration, or the creative process of our guests, offering a global perspective on modern artistic practices.
As an art collective, we aim to reconnect with the primal forces of ancient rituals, myths, and symbols. We believe in the enduring significance of these expressions of the collective subconscious, that we find in stories, sacred places, and folk traditions.
Discover inspiring talks, audio documentaries or art performances.
Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform and visit our website at [maison-douce.com](http://maison-douce.com) for more information and artworks.
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The monster we fear. The monster we need. And perhaps, the monster we create.
For over 2,500 years, Medusa has haunted our imagination. Once a terrifying guardian protecting ancient Greek temples, she later became a symbol of female rage, resistance, and transformation. But who is Medusa beyond the familiar image of the snake-haired monster?
In the first episode of Beneath the Work, our new series within Transmute Tapes, we explore the myths, psychology, and artistic interpretations behind one of humanity's most fascinating and contradictory figures.
Jungian psychoanalyst Suzanne Schreve joins us to explore Medusa through the lens of depth psychology: her petrifying gaze, the symbolism of her serpents, and the archetypal forces of fear, power, and protection.
Lotte Hauss takes us into the creative process behind Maison Douce's Medusa Flag and Medusa Portrait, reflecting on mythology, feminist art, materiality, and the transformation of ancient symbols into contemporary artworks.
Together with Marc T. Suess, we follow Medusa from ancient sanctuaries into the human psyche and the artist's studio, asking what makes someone monstrous, who holds the power of the gaze, and why this ancient figure still speaks so powerfully to our times.
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Please note: this episode is mainly in French. English subtitles are available on YouTube.
Dans cet épisode de Transmute Tapes, nous recevons l’artiste photographe française Psyché Ophiuchus pour parler de mythologie, de psychologie, de symbolisme, de rituel et de ce désir de « réenchanter le monde et donner du sens à la réalité ».
Nous revenons sur son parcours de la psychologie et du mannequinat vers la photographie, sur ses interprétations de Méduse et Narcisse, sur le pouvoir du regard, le mystère et la croyance, ainsi que sur l’influence du symbolisme et des Préraphaélites.
Nous parlons également de la création d’images lentes à l’ère des réseaux sociaux et de l’IA, avant d’aborder la transformation, l’alchimie et l’évolution actuelle de sa pratique artistique.
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In this episode of Transmute Tapes, we speak with French photographic artist Psyché Ophiuchus about mythology, psychology, symbolism, ritual and the desire to “re-enchant the world and give meaning to reality.”
We talk about her path from psychology and modelling into photography, her interpretations of Medusa and Narcissus, the power of the gaze, mystery and belief, and the influence of Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelites on her work.
We also discuss slow image-making in the age of social media and AI, before looking at transformation, alchemy and where her artistic practice is heading next.
Some artworks don't simply ask us to look. They feel like doors.
In the new Transmute Tapes, we speak with writer and curator Sarah Elizabeth about darkness, occult art, monsters, ritual, altered states, forgotten knowledge — and our very human attraction to things we cannot fully explain.
We talk about the childhood fears that became fascination, the first artwork that truly spoke to her, artists as explorers of other realities, the monsters of our technological age, current obsessions — and her extraordinary new book The Art of the Unknown.
At the heart of the conversation is one deceptively simple question:
What happens when we accept that we don't know?
And could one of art's most important roles today be to protect that unknown?
New episode of Transmute Tapes — Sarah Elizabeth: Art, Darkness & the Unknown.
All episodes on www.maison-douce.com
ART BRÜT versteht Parfum nicht als dekoratives Accessoire, sondern als künstlerisches Medium: als Erinnerungsträger, als Atmosphäre, als kleine Bühne auf der Haut. Die Düfte bewegen sich zwischen Berliner Nacht, Melancholie, Übermut, Sehnsucht, Körper, Biografie und Gegenwart. Sie tragen Namen wie German Angst, Disko Disko, Weltschmerz, Chasing Ghosts oder Je ne regrette rien – und wirken wie olfaktorische Kapitel eines Lebens, das sich nicht glätten lassen will.
Mit Daniel sprechen wir über seinen Weg zwischen Unternehmertum und Kreativität: über die Frage, wie man eine Marke aufbaut, ohne sie dem Markt vollständig auszuliefern. Für Daniel funktioniert ART BRÜT fast wie eine Galerie. Jeder Duft ist ein Werk, jede Komposition eine Setzung, jede Veröffentlichung ein weiterer Raum innerhalb eines größeren künstlerischen Kosmos.
Besonders faszinierend ist seine radikale Treue zur eigenen Intuition. Keine Markttests, kein Anpassungsreflex, kein vorsichtiges Abgleichen mit erwartbaren Zielgruppenwünschen. Daniel vertraut seinem Geschmack, seinem Bauch, seinem Blick auf die Welt. Was ihn interessiert, wird Material. Was ihn bewegt, wird Duft.
Wir sprechen darüber, wie er mit seinen Parfums die letzten zwanzig Jahre Berlin rekapituliert: Nächte, Exzesse, Verluste, Freundschaften, Szenen, Übergänge, Stimmungen. ART BRÜT wird dabei zu einer autobiografischen Kartografie – nicht chronologisch, sondern sinnlich. Ein Archiv aus Geruch, Erinnerung und Haltung.
Es geht um Parfum als Bühne, um das Verhältnis von Marke und Kunst, um die produktive Spannung zwischen Kontrolle und Kontrollverlust, um Unternehmersein ohne Selbstverrat – und um die seltene Kraft, den eigenen Instinkten mehr zu glauben als jeder vermeintlichen Marktlogik.
In this episode of The Transmute Tapes, we speak with Joanna Ebenstein, founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy, about death as a creative force, memento mori, mourning, anatomy, fairy tales, ritual, beauty and the life-affirming power of looking into the dark.
Joanna’s work explores the strange and fascinating spaces where art, death, medicine, mourning and culture meet. Her books include The Anatomical Venus, Memento Mori, Death: A Graveside Companion and The Morbid Anatomy Anthology.
For us, this conversation is about the morbid as a form of attention: a way of looking closely at the body, memory, grief, devotion and the fragile intensity of being alive. We speak about curatorial instinct, devotional impulses, hidden histories, fairy tales, transformation — and why facing mortality can become an act of reverence, imagination and gratitude.








