About

PROFILE

Born in Cologne, Germany
2003 Moved over from Germany to Ireland, West Cork, Goleen
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EDUCATION
2012-2016  DIT, West Cork, Sherkin Island –  3rd Level Degree in Visual Art (BAVA)
2011-2012 Rossa College – Professional Art Practice – Fetac Level 6
2010-2011 Rossa College – Art, Craft & Design – Fetac Level 5
1981 Graduation in Germany, Commercial College Cologne, Niehler Kirchweg
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RESEARCH
BA Visual Art DIT/Sherkin Island
• Thesis – Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect
• Essay – The Question Concerning Technology – ‘But where the danger is, grows the saving power also.’ This paper discusses Martin Heideggers´ essay, ‘The Question Concerning Technology’, written in 1953. I will critically assess Heideggers´ description regarding the ambivalent value of technology, using a quotation from the poet Friedrich Hölderlin as a reference point.
• Essay – What is an Author? An Essay Exploring The Definition Of The Role Of The Author In Postmodern Culture

Essay´s for Art Appreciation, Rossa College Fetac Level VI
• Essay – The Organic and the Surreal – Investigating Max Ernst, Gaudi and H.R. Giger.
• Artist Talk Review – Eilis O´Connell talked about her life and Part Haptic. An exhibition of sculptures at the West Cork Art Centre Skibbereen.
• Masterpiece – A historical and visual exploration of “Christ carrying the cross” by Hieronymus Bosch.

Essay´s for Art Appreciation, Rossa College Fetac Level V
• Gustav Klimt – The Kiss (Analyzing the technic and explaining the historical background content, combined with Gustav Klimts emotional background during his creation of “THE KISS”.
• Visual History – Hell (50 visual Art Works, representing the hell and its contemporaries through significant art movements from 400 years B.C. ago till now)
• Art Exhibition Review – Fastforwardfossil (Part 3) An exhibition of drawing, photography and sculpture by Ellen Driscoll at the West Cork Art Centre Skibbereen.
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EXHIBITIONS
2016 Ireland, West Cork, The Abbey, Sherkin Island, DISCOVER
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 Cafe
Each Song a Painting Exhibition
1993 Panama, Colón, Los Tres Canonas
Acrylic paintings on Panamanian wooden paddle
1988 Germany, Cologne, Nippes, Nippeser Entgleisungen
Several acrylic paintings on 2 m x 1,50 m canvas sheets
1983 Germany, Cologne
First exhibitions and street art performance
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PERFORMANCES

2018
Hagalaz – A transformative ceremony by Detlef Schlich, Medium Christa Liebach, Aghadown, Co. Cork, Ireland.
2017
Asylum Seeker – Poem Performance by Paul and Transodin, Baltimore, Co. Cork, Ireland.
2016 Ireland
Transodin and Delilah  Performance, Ballydehob, West Cork
Upside down Performance Part II, Castlefreke, Clonakilty. West Cork
2015 Ireland
Transodins Trichotomie, A Living Sculpture Performance in 3 Parts, Community Hall, Sherkin Island
World Saving: Art Part IV – A Shamartistic Social Performance, Ballyrisode Beach Back
2014 Ireland
Transodin`s Last Battle, Synapsnaroek, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Transodin`s Birth. Brainwave Drawing, Upside down Performance, Castlefreke, Clonakilty. West Cork
Beach4Peace Mandala Drawing, Clonakilty, West Cork
Ritual Mount Gabriel Performance, Mount Gabriel, West Cork
Orange Sherkin Island Performance, Community Hall, Sherkin Island, West Cork
World Saving: Art Part III – A Shamartistic Social Performance, Ballyrisode Beach Front
2013 Ireland, West Cork
Ritual Forest Performance
World Saving: Art Part II – A Shamartistic Social Performance, Tragumna
2012 Ireland, West Cork
World Saving:Art – A Shamartistic Social Performance, Sherkin Island
Ballydehob Jazz Festival – Live Painting with Corina Thornton and Earth ship,
BSClub – Live Painting with Corina Thornton inspired by a Poet Drum Performance from Ailin Becker and Thomas Wieland
2011 Ireland, West Cork
Clay to Mania, 90 BPM Sound, Clay and Poem-Performance, Ballydehob
1997 Germany, Cologne
Sketch-writer and actor of the cabaret-duo “Fix and Fotzi”
1995 Cologne, Nippes, Farmers market
Life performance – collecting quotes from pedestrians, which were then made into a picture inspired by the quote.
1994 Germany, Cologne, Nippes, Fabrik Cafe
Exhibition and Art Pop Performance – Part of the performance involved painting and singing about the colors red, yellow and blue, and with every song a picture was created.
1994 Cologne, Cologne Cathedral, down by the river Rhine
Life performance – selling crisis water (fFoodwater bottled in specially designed wine bottles). A cynical examination of disaster tourism
1984 – 1995 Germany, Cologne
Several band projects (frontman and songwriter of Mob Desi, Paradisox Peacepack, Schlich & Bandit)
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MEDIA

2018
Hagalaz – A transformative ceremony by Detlef Schlich, Medium Christa Liebach, Aghadown, Co. Cork, Ireland.
2017 Directing/producing a video project for a crowdfunding presentation clip. The product is called multiEngine@easyGoing. Castletownbere, West Cork, Ireland.
2017 – Asylum Seeker – Poem Performance by Paul and Transodin -, Baltimore, Co. Cork, Ireland.
2016  – Transodin´s Tradgedy: A film installation about the transhuman condition at the beginning of the 21th century
Production by Cute Alien TV with the participation of DIT/BAVA Sherkin Island, Co. Cork, Ireland.
2015 – The last Human: A visual essay in 3 parts about
the human condition in times of transhumanism.
Production by Cute Alien TV with the participation of DIT/BAVA Sherkin Island, Co. Cork, Ireland.
2012 – 2014 Several ART Video Clips
2011 Ireland, West Cork
Creating a You Tube Channel “CuteAlienTV “
2010 Ireland, West Cork
Co-Producing, Sound Engineering and Film Music Development for the Sherkin Island Visual Art Project (Short movie “The winning line”)
2010 Ireland, West Cork, Schull, Fastnet Short Film School
Developing a selection of short movies
2010 Ireland, West Cork
Founding the West Cork Art network “I love West Cork Artists”.
2007 – 2010 Ireland, West Cork
Developing ‘DetDesign’ (digital eco treatment) which provided web art, web animation and commercial web design, such as http://www.fliegenfischerschulen.de (animation and web design) http://www.thewoodburningcentre.com http://www.jimodaly.com http://www.sonntagswurf.de http://www.fliegen-shop.de
as well as video and photo shootings
1998 – 2003 Germany, Cologne, Berlin
Serial, TV movie and “sit com” developing for different TV-stations and film production company’s (script, plots and treatment development)
1998 Germany, Cologne
Developing the high-technology thriller ”scarabaeus on cocain – the night of the scarabaeus”
1994 – 1997 Germany, Cologne, Riehler Heimstätten
Developing, coordinating, directing and editing the first German TV-show for and performed by seniors: “TV 60plus” a weekly old people´s home TV-show. (unpublished)

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PUBLISHING
2014 Artwork (Flyers, event poster) for the first Art & Culture Weekend Ballydehob
1983 – 2014 International
Developed and published flyers, bandcovers, event posters, book-illustrations, commercial art and other pop-artwork
1993 Germany, Cologne
Developed and published cartoons in the “Kölner Stadtanzeiger” (a local newspaper)
FURTHER TRAINING
2016  Digital art and GPS mapping Workshop, Sherkin Island with  Conor Mc Garrigle
2016 Sculpture Workshop,  Sherkin Island with Ronan McCrea
2015 Sound Workshop, Sherkin Island with Mark Garry
2015 Sound Workshop, Durrus with Maurice Seezer
2014 Performance Workshop, Sherkin Island with Amanda Coogan
2014 Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern
Art (IMMA), Dublin
2014 Cast Workshop, Ballydehob with Holger Lönze
2013 Print Workshop – Dublin
2012 Sound-workshop West Cork Art Centre
2011 Ireland, West Cork
Attending at the work shops “Sound of Clay” & “Evolution of a Ceramic Artist” with Marian Ban. Organized by the Society of Cork Potters.
2010 Ireland, West Cork, Schull, Fastnet Short Film School
Developing a selection of short movies.
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ACHIEVEMENTS
2014 Art/Culture Workshop Coordinator, PR-Design for the 1st BALLYDEHOB ART & CULTURE WEEKEND
2011-2014 Ballydehob Social Club -Event Coordination/Non Profit Volunteer
2011-2014 Ballydehob Social Club – Film club/Art House Coordination
2004 Ireland, West Cork, Lackavaun – Land Art
Nature Sculpturing ‘Fish towards Sea’ with the help of a JCB, created a natural man-made lake with the shape of a fish next to the sea. The water for the lake was provided by flowing mountain water. My intention was to design the lake using the natural materials available to me.
The lake was a part of a project, called the “sense path”.
A meditative walk through nature with the intention to stimulate the 6 senses.
1995 Germany, Cologne
Singer/songwriter project “Schlich & Bandit” recording the CD “Lieder aus dem Schatten meiner Sonnenuhr” (songs out of the shadow of my sundial) produced by Kirchenbauers Klangkonzept Studio and Chlodwig Music
1994 – 1997 Germany, Cologne, Riehler Heimstätten
Developing, coordinating, directing and editing the first German TV-show for and performed by seniors: “TV 60plus” a weekly old people´s home TV-show.
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TECHNICAL ABILITY’S
Draw and Paint Experience:
Oil, Watercolor, Acrylic, Cole, Chalk, Pencil and Ink, Mixed Media,
Sculpturing Experience: Wood, Wire, Paper, Weaving, Plaster, Clay and Concrete
Computer technologies:
Adobe Creative Suit CS 5. After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Lightroom. Soundediting software: Audacity, Soundbooth.
Content Management Systems like for instance Drupal, WordPress and Typo 3.
Analogue and digital video editing and shooting experiences
Analogue and digital recording experiences.
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MEMBERSHIP
West Cork Art Center