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The Transmute Tapes by Maison Douce

The Transmute Tapes by Maison Douce

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.Maison Douce – Lotte Hauss & Marc T. Suess Art Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • German Angst? Parfum als Biografie: Daniel Matousek von ART BRÜT über experimentelle Duftkunst.

    German Angst? Parfum als Biografie: Daniel Matousek von ART BRÜT über experimentelle Duftkunst.
    Jun 19 2026
    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.
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    52 mins
  • Death as Muse: Joanna Ebenstein on Morbid Anatomy, Memento Mori and the Life-Affirming Dark

    Death as Muse: Joanna Ebenstein on Morbid Anatomy, Memento Mori and the Life-Affirming Dark
    May 22 2026
    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.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • The Mystery of the Siberian Ice Maiden: Kim Trainor on Poetry, Death, and Memory

    The Mystery of the Siberian Ice Maiden: Kim Trainor on Poetry, Death, and Memory
    Apr 10 2026
    For this episode of The Transmute Tapes, we speak with Kim Trainor — a Canadian poet, teacher, and author based in Vancouver, whose work moves between poetry, ecology, memory, grief, and the ethics of attention. We first connected with Kim through a shared fascination with the Siberian Ice Maiden — the tattooed Iron Age woman unearthed from the frozen Pazyryk burial grounds in Siberia. In Kim Trainor’s book "Ledi", this discovery becomes a poetic investigation shaped by archaeology, intimacy, memory, grief, and the strange persistence with which the dead continue to address the living. For Maison Douce, the Siberian Ice Maiden became the starting point for a different artistic gesture: the flag "Talking to Ghosts", conceived as a portal and trigger — an artwork that invites confession, projection, and the release of buried knowledge. In this conversation, we explore where these approaches meet: how one ancient figure can move across time and enter the present through radically different artistic forms, awakening both poetic language and visual ritual. In this episode, we talk about what it means to be seized by a presence from the distant past, and what allows an unearthed body, image, or fragment of story to still act upon us across centuries. We discuss the ethics of unearthing the past, the responsibilities that come with working artistically with the dead, and the fragile line between revelation and appropriation. Kim also reflects on her writing process, poetry as a form of listening, and her deep connection to the natural world. We touch on her most recent book, Blue thinks itself within me: Lyric poetry, ecology, and lichenous form, and on the way ecology, weather, plant life, and environmental crisis enter her work. This is a conversation about artistic kinship, ancient remains, poetic form, ritual, and the mysterious ways certain figures keep calling to us. **Content note: This episode includes references to death and suicide. Please skip this episode if you prefer not to engage with these themes.**
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    1 hr and 13 mins
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