#ArTEEtude 357 – Schlich explores personal memories of West Cork, the challenges facing small island communities, and the development of The Cape Clear Sessions.

ArTEEtude 357 – The Cape Clear Sessions An Atlantic Crossing, Artistic Experiments & the Layers of Island Life Three heavy bags, a guitar, two kilos of chicken, and a stormy crossing of the Atlantic. In this special episode of ArTEEtude, Detlef Schlich takes listeners to Cape Clear Island, off the coast of West Cork, Ireland, for an intimate journey into the relationship between landscape, memory, artistic research, and multilayerism. What begins as a challenging journey becomes a creative exploration of an island's history, its people, and its extraordinary Atlantic environment. From dramatic moments aboard the ferry to a temporary studio equipped with paintbrushes, recording equipment, a wood-burning stove, and an improvised microphone stand made from a coffee thermos, Detlef reflects on how unpredictable circumstances can become part of the artistic process. The episode explores personal memories of West Cork, the traces artists leave behind in landscapes, the challenges facing small island communities, and the development of The Cape Clear Sessions. Featuring music by Los Inorgánicos . Coming next week: The autobiographical journey continues in Ballydehob, 2008 — an apartment with an outside metal staircase, a new beginning, and an unexpected encounter with blackmail. ArTEEtude is an independent, non-profit podcast dedicated to art, music, philosophy, and multilayerism. Follow, listen, share, and join the creative conversation. The future is just a podcast away. Your Detlef. 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, rit