ArTEEtude Podcast

ArTEEtude: Art, culture and the creative mind. Never so close again. – with Detlef Schlich

ARTEETUDE is a West Cork–based podcast by visual artist Detlef Schlich, exploring the shifting intersections of art, culture, technology and the creative mind.

Together with Sophia, his AI co-host, Detlef enters a conversational space where art history meets neuroscience, shamanic ritual encounters digital culture, and human imagination confronts artificial intelligence. Reflective, humorous and sometimes deeply personal, each episode investigates the forces shaping creativity, perception and contemporary life.

Drawing on his practice in performance, photography, painting, sound, installation, film and media archaeology, Detlef treats the podcast not simply as a format, but as an artistic space in its own right — a place for philosophical inquiry, cultural critique, guest conversations, listener questions and poetic speculation.In a world driven by speed, distraction and surface-level connection, ARTEETUDE slows things down. It looks beneath the noise and asks: What does it mean to create today? How do technology and consciousness transform one another? What happens to spirituality in an increasingly digital culture? And where can the human soul still find resonance?

Whether you are an artist, a thinker, a technologist or simply curious about the mysteries of creativity, ARTEETUDE invites you into a conversation where art, mind, body and machine meet.

What happens when the future you spent years building suddenly disappears?In ArTEEtude 355 — The Land That Held Me, Detlef Schlich continues his autobiographical Lackavaun story.His partner has returned to Cologne. The house is unfinished, the building money is almost gone, and Detlef is left alone in West Cork with one certainty: he will not return to Germany.For five months, life becomes surprisingly elemental.He rides his moped to work with Jimmy, a former fisherman turned organic farmer. He repairs fences overlooking the Atlantic, weeds seemingly endless rows of carrots and spinach, eats breakfast directly from the fields and spends long evenings beside the lake he created at Lackavaun, watching dragonflies above the water.Slowly, another life begins to emerge. Local web-design clients appear. Independence becomes possible.Then his partner returns.And Lackavaun changes again.An episode about separation, physical work, solitude, nature and the strange ways we sometimes recover our ability to move forward.Featuring a new song by Los Inorgánicos — “The Land That Helped Me.”

ArTEEtude is an independent, non-profit podcast.

About Detlef Schlich

Detlef Schlich is a rock musician, podcaster, visual artist, filmmaker, ritual designer, and media archaeologist based in West Cork, Ireland.

His artistic practice moves between performance, photography, painting, sound, installation, film, music, podcasting, and digital image-making. Across these fields, Schlich reflects on the human condition, the relationship between ritual and technology, and the changing role of the artist in digital culture.

As a media archaeologist, he explores how media shape perception, memory, culture, politics, and artistic expression. His work often uses the figure of the digital shaman as an alter ego — a method for navigating the space between ancient ritual structures, contemporary media, and technological transformation.

Research & Artistic Method

Detlef Schlich’s artistic research is rooted in his essay Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect, which investigates the relationship between ritual, artistic transformation, media, and digital culture.Download here for free:Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effecthttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/303749640_Shamanism_Art_and_Digital_Culture_Cause_and_EffectBuilding on this foundation, Schlich developed Multilayerism: A New Paradigm in Contemporary Art – A Manifesto, an artistic method and conceptual framework for understanding contemporary art through layers of media, memory, technology, ritual, emotion, misunderstanding, and lived experience.Read here:Multilayerism: A New Paradigm in Contemporary Art – A Manifesto by Detlef Schlichhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/375665507_Multilayerism_A_New_Paradigm_in_Contemporary_Art_-_A_Manifesto_by_Detlef_SchlichTogether, these texts form the theoretical backbone of Schlich’s ongoing work as a visual artist, media archaeologist, ritual designer, musician, and host of the Arteetude podcast.

WEBSITE LINKS

Music Projects

WAW / Wild Atlantic Way

WAW is the music project by Detlef Schlich and Dirk Schlömer.Official YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@WAWBand

From the forthcoming WAW album The Stories of Nil Young

Two songs from WAW’s developing album project The Stories of Nil Young form part of a mythopoetic journey along the Nile, where river, memory, loss, cooperation, and hope flow into music.AfricaSmileAfricaSmile follows the Nile as an imagined journey from its sources to the Mediterranean Sea — a river of memory, movement, rhythm, and myth. The song turns the meeting of the White Nile and the Blue Nile into a fragile image of cooperation. It is not a naïve peace anthem, but a wounded musical hope: two different currents meeting, listening, and still moving forward together.Watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQbsh01YWU The Nile’s Bittersweet SongThe Nile’s Bittersweet Song is the first official single by WAW / Wild Atlantic Way — Detlef Schlich and Dirk Schlömer.The song follows the Nile as a river of memory, beauty, loss, and contradiction: a life-giver, but also a force that can take away what it once nourished. Through the story of Kamau, it becomes a poetic reflection on childhood, fragile hope, and the emotional landscape carried by a river that is both kind and cruel.Inspired by East African storytelling traditions and shaped along the Wild Atlantic Way in West Cork, The Nile’s Bittersweet Song is a mythopoetic musical journey about water, grief, resilience, and the deep human longing to keep moving with the current.Watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AWko4IkKI

WAW on Bandcamp

Silent NightIn a world shadowed by conflict and unrest, Dirk Schlömer and Detlef Schlich felt compelled to reinterpret Silent Night to reflect the complexities and contradictions of modern life.https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/silent-nightWild Atlantic WayThis song emerged from a trip to West Cork, Ireland, where the beautiful coastal Wild Atlantic Way stretches along the west coast.https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/wild-atlantic-way