Tereza Stehlikova: Artistic research into sensory perception & embodiment
This collaborative map is part of a developmental phase of my Infraordinary Lab project, which will take place in June 2023, as part of Prague Quadrennial, in a form of participatory performance. We are using the map to chart the area in terms of its multi-sensory qualities, hence the grouping into different categories/symbols. It is... Continue Reading →
Having recently completed my short film Self-isolation Dinner, I have asked a selected number of interesting thinkers from different disciplines, to write a short response to the film. The idea is to offer different viewpoints on the work, so that the film is not an end in itself, but becomes an inspiration to dialogue, which... Continue Reading →
Journey to the Interior – a multi-sensory, participatory performance and feast by Monika Parrinder* “Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jökull of Snæfell, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the Kalends of June, and you will attain the centre of the earth. I did it.” – Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of... Continue Reading →
Journey to the Interior: A multi-sensory, participatory performance involving a feast, inspired by George Bellas Greenough, a geologist and a founder of the Geological Society, London as well as Jules Verne’s story the Journey to the Centre of the Earth. It took place on 21st May, 2017, in Kensal Green Cemetery and Dissenters Chapel. It was conceived and realised by... Continue Reading →
"Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jökull of Snæfell, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the Kalends of June, and you will attain the centre of the earth. I did it." – Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth Journey to the Interior, 21st May, 2017, 6pm, Kensal Green Cemetery and Dissenters Chapel, Limited tickets available on... Continue Reading →
This weekend I went on my first geological field trip in Torbay, Devon. Our guide was Hazel Gibson, a geologist based at Plymouth university, who also has a blog here: https://mypatchworkplanet.wordpress.com/. Hazel decided to take us to Torbay, because of its visually striking geologies, where she was able to talk about broad structural changes, geological faults and bedding and... Continue Reading →
These are some of the images from an ongoing research into capturing tactile qualities in moving image. This forest, covered in lichen and moss, was the perfect subject, given its tactile appeal, especially after days of rain. Trees here are dressed in a myriad of shades of green, strange beings, quivering with anticipation...ready to assume a different role...... Continue Reading →
These are stills from my latest short film, with the working title: Journey to the Bottom of the Ocean. This project is a part of my on-going research into using food and eating to communicate multi-sensory impressions in moving image. It is also an homage to Marinetti, and his call to: "use food to evoke... Continue Reading →
A full version of my film Across the Unseen Sea (2014) is now online. The film builds on a multi-sensory immersive performance I conceived and designed together with a number of key collaborators, and which took place on a single evening, at a unique London location and involved a small number of selected guests. The central... Continue Reading →
From my Trieste wanderings...April 2015. "Great sadnesses … they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.” Rilke ©Tereza... Continue Reading →
Cinesthetic feasts 