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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 Kunst Reiseliteratur & Erläuterungen Sozialwissenschaften
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  • 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 Std. und 13 Min.
  • Art Is Magick: Pam Grossman Interview

    Art Is Magick: Pam Grossman Interview
    Feb 6 2026
    In this episode of The Transmute Tapes, we speak with Pam Grossman — writer, curator, and host of the podcast The Witch Wave — about witchcraft, art, ritual, and the quiet forces shaping creative life today. Our conversation begins with fairy tales, winter thresholds, and first encounters with witches, and moves into questions of how magic is learned, practiced, inherited, and performed. We talk about everyday, quiet forms of witchcraft and moments when magic must become visible: staged, shared, or even confrontational. From German folk traditions around Frau Holle and Perchta to contemporary ritual performance, we explore the thin line between theatre and belief, care and danger, nourishment and threat. We speak about ancestral memory, historical violence, and the long shadow of the witch trials, including personal journeys into family history and sites of persecution. With Pam, we discuss creativity as a sacred practice: rituals that sustain artistic work, the role of intuition and discipline, and the ways artists across history have worked with unseen influences. We reflect on what makes an artwork feel alive, whether magic is embedded in the object or activated through encounter, and if art has ever truly been separate from ritual or spiritual practice. This episode is not about nostalgia or aesthetics, but about presence, responsibility, and attention, about what happens when art, magic, and culture meet without clear boundaries. A conversation about witches, creativity, ancestry, and the forces we carry – knowingly or not.
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    1 Std. und 23 Min.
  • Frank Berzbach (Author) Interview – GER

    Frank Berzbach (Author) Interview – GER
    Jan 9 2026
    This episode is in German. Willkommen bei den Transmute Tapes von Maison Douce – unserem Podcast für Gedanken zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, Auszüge aus Performances und Gespräche mit Künstler*innen und Kreativen. In einem rund anderthalbstündigen Gespräch mit Frank Berzbach berühren wir unter anderem das Feine im Archaischen, das Gebet im Jazz, Fluxus, Handwerk versus Beseeltheit, zeitgeistige und zeitlose Dimensionen von Kunstwerken, Erwachsensein und Transzendenz, Sinnfragen in der Kunst – und den Satz: „KI wird die Ölmalerei retten.“ Ein Gedanke aus dem Gespräch bleibt besonders haften: „Wir sehen nur, was wir wissen.“ Diese Episode lädt dazu ein, mehr zu sehen. -- This episode marks a new beginning: Transmute Tapes is available in German for the first time. Future episodes will be published in German and English—language as a space for resonance, not a barrier. In a conversation with Frank Berzbach, lasting around an hour and a half, we touch on, among other things, the subtlety of the archaic, prayer in jazz, Fluxus, craftsmanship versus soulfulness, the zeitgeisty and timeless dimensions of artworks, adulthood and transcendence, questions of meaning in art – and the sentence: “AI will save oil painting.” One thought from the conversation sticks in particular: “We only see what we know.” This episode invites us to see more.
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    1 Std. und 35 Min.
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