In Arteetude 341, Detlef Schlich welcomes back musician, artist, designer, project manager and builder Buko Pan Guerra, also known as Buko Sinigayan, for a deeply human conversation about survival, rejection, land, animals, music, community and the strange courage it takes to keep building when life has already asked too much.
Buko has spent decades helping other people’s visions become real — working across art, music, construction, education, entertainment, design, theme-park environments and complex project management. Now she is building something of her own: Golden Mirage Ranch in Leona Valley, California.
But Golden Mirage Ranch is not just a ranch. It is a place for rescued animals, nature, music, workshops, food, learning, healing and community. It is where many of Buko’s lives come together: the artist, the musician, the project manager, the daughter, the caretaker, the survivor and the dreamer.
This episode is not simply about a fundraiser. It is about dignity. It is about creative resilience. It is about what happens when an artist refuses to disappear. It asks: How does an artist survive rejection and still build a place of care, land, animals, music and community?
The episode ends with Buko’s powerful song
“In Search for Power” — a fitting musical closing for a conversation about vulnerability, survival and the search for strength.
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https://goldenmirageranch.com/https://www.instagram.com/goldenmirageranch/https://www.gofundme.comAbout 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.
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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.
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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 ProjectsWAW / 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 album
The Stories of Nil YoungTwo songs from WAW’s developing album project The Stories of Nil Young form part of a mythopoetic journey along the Nile, where river, memory, loss, cooperation, and hope flow into music.
AfricaSmile
AfricaSmile follows the Nile as an imagined journey from its sources to the Mediterranean Sea — a river of memory, movement, rhythm, and myth. The song turns the meeting of the White Nile and the Blue Nile into a fragile image of cooperation. It is not a naïve peace anthem, but a wounded musical hope: two different currents meeting, listening, and still moving forward together.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQbsh01YWU
The Nile’s Bittersweet Song
The Nile’s Bittersweet Song is the first official single by WAW / Wild Atlantic Way — Detlef Schlich and Dirk Schlömer.
The song follows the Nile as a river of memory, beauty, loss, and contradiction: a life-giver, but also a force that can take away what it once nourished. Through the story of Kamau, it becomes a poetic reflection on childhood, fragile hope, and the emotional landscape carried by a river that is both kind and cruel.
Inspired by East African storytelling traditions and shaped along the Wild Atlantic Way in West Cork, The Nile’s Bittersweet Song is a mythopoetic musical journey about water, grief, resilience, and the deep human longing to keep moving with the current.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AWko4IkKI
WAW on Bandcamp
Silent Night
In a world shadowed by conflict and unrest, Dirk Schlömer and 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 song emerged from a trip to West Cork, Ireland, where the beautiful coastal Wild Atlantic Way stretches along the west coast.
https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/wild-atlantic-way
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Silent Night Reimagined – A Multilayered Avant-Garde Journey by WAW aka Dirk Schlömer & Detlef Schlich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbytLSfgCw
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