{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhometoher.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fart-as-medicine-with-dee-mulrooney-wZo8pjSv","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Art as Medicine with Dee Mulrooney","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/bd6d80d1-8ec4-4be9-af68-a7c45fa1c454/4f155121-4b4e-4a1f-9c85-b024df1b93e0/copy-of-img-20210131-112441-dee-mulrooney.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"On the latest episode, I have the privilege of speaking with Irish artist Dee Mulrooney, whose creative work includes painting, drawing, film, story-telling and performance art. I first got to know Dee through her remarkable performance piece “Growler,” an 81-year-old shamanic vulva living in exile in Berlin, Germany. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art and she uses this process to deal with difficult topics, including abuse, death and loss. She has exhibited and performed numerous times in both Berlin and Ireland, and she is also the creative force behind the feminist “Holy Cvnt Collective” in Berlin.\n \nOn today’s episode, Dee and I explore:\n●\tHer spiritual background and how growing up Catholic shaped her views\n●\tWhy it’s important to find the sacred in the ordinary and mundane aspects of life (and why she’s not a big fan of the word “sacred”)\n●\tWho Growler is and how she came into being\n●\tHow art functions as medicine for her, and how it has helped her work with collective feminine shadow\n●\tWhat it means to use art as activism – “artivism”"}