#ArTEEtude 352 - Detlef Schlich, supported by his AI-Co HOst Sophia returns to Lackavaun and asks why these memories have resurfaced more than twenty years later.The episode ends with a new Los Inorgánicos track: “Goodbye to the Rats.”

What happens when rebuilding a house becomes a way of reading your own past? In ArTEEtude 352 , Detlef Schlich returns to Lackavaun and asks why these memories have resurfaced more than twenty years later — and why they have become more than a single podcast episode. Influenced by landscape, memory, Walter Benjamin’s idea of passages and his own evolving practice of Multilayerism, Detlef begins to see the reconstruction of the old house as something else: a method of thinking through layers. Then the philosophy gets dusty. The main house is completely stripped back. Rotten timber comes out. Floors are lowered. Stone walls are exposed and repointed. Drainage and underfloor heating go in. Woodworm treatment, chemicals, mosquitoes, concrete, exhaustion — and the slow process of learning skills from others before doing them himself. Yet beneath everything that has to disappear, something remains. The stone. The scars. The memory of the building. And eventually, through a new gable window, Dunmanus Bay enters the house. Keep what remembers. Lose what does not. The episode ends with a new Los Inorgánicos track: “Goodbye to the Rats.” 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 Effect https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303749640_Shamanism_Art_and_Digital_Culture_Cause_and_Effect Building 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 Schlich https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375665507_Multilayerism_A_New_Paradigm_in_Contemporary_Art_-_A_Manifesto_by_Detlef_Schlich Together, 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