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.
#ArTEEtude 353 – Detlef Schlich returns to Lackavaun on the north side of the Mizen Peninsula and to the years when an almost uninhabitable ruin slowly became something much more personal. And stay until the end for the new Los Inorgánicos track: “Rock Breaker → Dragonflies.”
When does rebuilding a house stop being construction — and start becoming art?
In ArTEEtude 353, Detlef Schlich returns to Lackavaun on the north side of the Mizen Peninsula and to the years when an almost uninhabitable ruin slowly became something much more personal.
A wall is broken open towards the landscape. The Fisherman’s House takes shape. A handmade kitchen, Art Nouveau stairs, mermaids, whales, a grotto bathroom and even a slightly improbable “Turkish shopping centre” find their way into the architecture.
Outside, a JCB and Rock Breaker reshape the land. Huge stones become steps and retaining walls. And an experiment begins: could the naturally water-resistant soil hold a lake without a plastic liner?
It could.
Then something unexpected happens.
Insects arrive. Dragonflies dance above the water. Plants establish themselves. Frogs discover the lake and lay their spawn.
What began with heavy machinery becomes a living ecosystem — a three-dimensional painting that continually repaints itself.
But paradise has boundaries.
And beyond them, another story is already beginning.
Featuring a new track by Los Inorgánicos: “Rock Breaker → Dragonflies.”
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/@WAWBandFrom 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=LnQbsh01YWUThe 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=33AWko4IkKIWAW 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-wayYouTube
Silent Night Reimagined – A Multilayered Avant-Garde Journey by WAW aka Dirk Schlömer & Detlef Schlichhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbytLSfgCwDetlef Schlich
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