Detlef Schlich

I am an interdisciplinary artist and ritual designer working with performance, photography, painting, sound, installations, and film. My main concern is the evolutionary origins of fear politics, the exploration of the loss of boundaries between human beings and technology in the 21st Century, the emerging phenomenon of transhumanism in the digital age.
My methodology is the creation of an alter ego, a mythical character, a contemporary manifestation of transhumanism which embodies the symbiotic relationship between the human experience and technology. Through these alter egos I can explore this fatalistic relationship in which human beings are losing their spirituality and seek methods of analogue, and digital therapeutic re-spiritualization through contemporary art.
In my studio, I use ritual performance footage as a source of inspiration. I then work with digital and physical media collaging both the charcoal, acrylics and digital to create a final piece of visual work.

BA in Visual Arts

EXHIBITIONS
2016 Ireland, West Cork, West Cork At Center, UNCOVER II
2016 Ireland, West Cork, The Abbey, Sherkin Island, UNCOVER
2015 Ireland, West Cork, The Quays, Skibbereen, ARRAY 19
2015 Ireland, West Cork West Cork At Center Member Exhibition Skibbereen
2014 Ireland, West Cork, Ballydehob Social Club Member Exhibition, Ballydehob,
2013 Ireland, West Cork, Wall of Art, Skibbereen
2013 Ireland, West Cork, Blind Date Exhibition,
Fund Raiser Exhibition for The West Cork Art Centre
2012 Ireland, West Cork West Cork At Center Member Exhibition Skibbereen
2012 Ireland, West Cork, The River Side Café, Skibbereen
Show by the Professional Arts Practice Students of Rossa College “FLUX”
2011 Ireland, West Cork, The Quays, Skibbereen
Art, Craft & Design Show by the Students of Rossa College “15 in One”
1994 Germany, Cologne, Fabrik
Each Song a Painting Exhibition
1993 Panama, Colón, Los Tres Canonas
Acrylic paintings on Panamanian wooden paddle

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