OQ14: Healing through art (EN)

Episode descrip­tion:
In this episode Irina speaks to Gözde Sütçü about her inner jour­ney in the attempt to recon­nect with the core of her being and find joy in life. Dur­ing a few months in Upp­sala, Swe­den, where she had come to study Euro­pean visual arts, Gözde cre­ated a body of work that she titled Anx­i­ety for mean­ing, show­ing at Eko Caféet in Upp­sala Decem­ber 15-January 15, 2011. Gözde shares how she started paint­ing and how paint­ing with­out con­cern for the out­come increased her self-understanding and helped her release the pain she had been car­ry­ing for years. Gözde speaks about her fas­ci­na­tion with trees, how the mate­ri­als she uses for paint­ing or sculp­tur­ing are in line with her vision and shares about her first encounter with the gallery world in Sweden.In Part 2 of the show Irina intro­duces some of the top­ics that she would like to explore in 2012: string the­ory and mod­ern physics; voice as the expres­sion of who we are and find­ing our true voice; skep­ti­cism and the idea behind the skep­tics move­ment; crit­i­cal think­ing and what it takes to dis­ci­pline our mind; work­ing with our dreams as a way to inform our wak­ing life and Jun­gian dream analy­sis; trans­for­ma­tive power of expres­sive arts. Irina also shares the names of the two peo­ple she con­sid­eres to be her teach­ers and would like to invite for a con­ver­sa­tion on Open Ques­tions: artist, art teacher and author Peter Lon­don and poet, author and speaker David Whyte. We wel­come ideas and sug­ges­tions of who Irina could invite as a guest to speak on the sub­jects men­tioned above.

Fea­tured music track:
Uppsala-bound (although not for much longer) Alex Tael brings into the show a tad of roman­tic melan­cho­lia with his own song Jul­saga (Kom­mer du hem till jul?) (SE), Christ­mas fairy­tale (Are you com­ing home for Christ­mas?).

Bonus track:
We close the year and the sea­son of Open Ques­tions by J. S. Bach’s Christ­mas Ora­to­rio per­formed by the reward-winning a capella group from Swe­den The Real Group and recorded dur­ing one of their live per­for­mances. Irina and Mar­ian (guest on #OQ11) had it con­firmed that TRG were as real and as fan­tas­tic as they were reported to be and enjoyed TRG con­cert at UKK in Upp­sala on Decem­ber 11, 2011.