19: Dee Mulrooney - Creative Orgasms

Receive bonus content and extended episodes for just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceDee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney***Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section 13:40-19:00 mins***We talked about:The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatreHow one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to drawThe colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalismArt and activismWomen’s creativity, high art and the EstablishmentArt as alchemy and transmuter of painIn the extended episode we discussed:The impact of empire…and how quickly things can changeHer experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcisedImbas – the Irish insightHer advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called toWe mentioned:Empire podcastBurning WomanTuam Mother and Baby HomeThe Babog projectMeggan Watterson – Magdalene RevealedImbasSile na gigsAbout your HostLucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.lucyhpearce.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.