#ArTEEtude 355 — 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. Featuring a new song by Los Inorgánicos — “The Land That Helped Me.”

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 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 the forthcoming WAW a