#Arteetude 323 - Detlef Schlich, together with his AI Co-Host Sophia, explores pool + sauna as modern “social living. They discuss the unisex changing room, meet the sauna characters, and explore how rituals of wellness create community in small, funny, dignified ways. End song: Los Inorgánicos – “Social Breathing”

In this episode, we step out of the pub and into the heat. For me, the pool and the sauna have become a new form of social living . Not the midnight version, where the atmosphere can turn heavy, drunken, or depressive, but a healthier kind of togetherness: towels, quiet jokes, small kindness, and bodies trying to reset rather than escape. Together with my AI Co-Host Sophia, we begin in the unisex changing room (surprisingly normal for a historically Catholic country), then move into the sauna world: the characters, the unspoken rules, and the strange honesty that heat brings out. Along the way, my homemade joint oils become a running gag (joints for knees and shoulders, not the smoking kind), and in the steam room, where you sometimes can’t see your own hand, a hilarious case of mistaken massage unfolds and dissolves the moment the fog clears. Arteetude 323 ends with a song by Los Inorgánicos: “Social Breathing.” Detlef Schlich is a rock musician, podcaster, visual artist, filmmaker, ritual designer, and media archaeologist based in West Cork. He is recognised for his seminal work, including a scholarly examination of the intersections between shamanism, art, and digital culture, and his acclaimed video installation, Transodin's Tragedy. He primarily works in performance, photography, painting, sound, installations, and film. In his work, he reflects on the human condition and uses the digital shaman's methodology as an alter ego to create artwork. His media archaeology is a conceptual and practical exercise in uncovering the unique aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects of media in culture. WEBSITE LINKS WAW Official YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@WAWBand "The Niles Bittersweet Song" WAW Bandcamp Silent Night In a world shadowed by conflict and unrest, we, Dirk Schlömer & Detlef Schlich, felt compelled to reinterpret 'Silent Night' to reflect the complexities and contradictions of modern life. https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/silent-night Wild Atlantic Way This results from a trip to West Cork, Ireland, where the beautiful Coastal "Wild Atlantic Way" reaches along the whole west coast! https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/wild-atlantic-way YOU TUBE *Silent Night Reimagined* A Multilayered Avant-Garde Journey by WAW aka Dirk Schlömer & Detlef Schlich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbytLSfgCw Detlef Schlich Instagram Detlef Schlich ArTEEtude I love West Cork Artists Facebook Detlef Schlich I love West Cork Artists Group ArTEEtude YouTube Channels visual Podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnOjvvGVETmyPqv-jM