Tereza Stehlikova: Artistic research into sensory perception & embodiment
A multi-media exhibition by Tereza Stehlíková STERNSTUDIO GalleryMayergasse 7/21020 WienAustria NEW DATE:Opening - 20th January 2023 - 19:00visit on appointment via info@sternstudio.at A multi-media exhibition tracing and mapping some of the textures that make up the narrative of oneself: a fragile and ever-shifting construct made of embodied memories, fragments of early childhood experience, imprints of tactile... 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 →
SENSING PLACE Five day sensory workshop / residency, in beautiful surroundings of South Bohemia, focused on exploring our relationship to landscape/place, in order to inspire creativity, fuel the imagination and ground the body. Introduction: brief concept How do we get to know a particular place and how do we learn to experience it fully with... Continue Reading →
Here we are again, Steve and I, on our now regular exploration of this part of North West London. Unlike the last mini expedition, when the atmosphere was so thick and still it could be cut with a knife, today everything is nimble, translucent, in a state of flux. There is a palpable sense of... Continue Reading →
Ongoing explorations and musings, Worm Wood film project in making, in collaboration with Steve J Fowler. Sweltering heat, strange smells and heavy stenches drifting from nearby factories, spawning thick vegetation, the canal transformed into a toxic green carpet, impenetrable, surely hiding all sorts of disturbing content in its depth. Something much worse than the bloated... Continue Reading →
Perceiving Place: Royal College of Art PhD research methods course Convened by Tereza Stehlikova I was asked to run a research methods PhD session called Perceiving Place, focused on exploration of the creative process, inspired by and developed in collaboration with a unique location, and employing multi-sensory methods of research. Working with particular places, the... 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 →
Today I went on an exploration of Kensal Green cemetery, with geologist Diana Clements. We were looking for famous geologists, engineers and zoologists, marked on the map drawn up by former local resident geologist, Eric Robinson, who led many groups around the cemetery looking at the graves and the stones they were made from At the same... Continue Reading →
Cinesthetic feasts 