An ongoing research project, exploring questions of embodied cognition and situated knowledge. From an artistic practice angle I am interested in how our environment becomes an extension of our inner worlds and how our engagement with our environment shapes our inner life. The form this research takes is varied, from video to immersive participatory performance and audio walks. I often collaborate with scientists and artists from other disciplines, such as dance and choreography.
Touch Masterclass, 2022
A short film Stehlikova made about a Touch masterclass led by professor Ophelia Deroy, Chair and Head of Philosophy of Mind at Munich Center for Neuroscience, which took place at Stiftung Kunst und Natur in Germany, in November 2023.
INFRA-ORDINARY LAB (2023 ) A site-specific participatory performance that invites you on a multi-sensory exploration of Holešovická Tržnice, framing perception and peeling the skin of the everyday to reveal hidden narratives.
WORMWOOD (2015- ongoing)
A long term collaboration between artist Tereza Stehlikova and poet Steve J Fowler.
TRIESTE: In-between states (2016): An impressionistic documentary about Trieste which was inspired by a conversation with John Berger. Trieste a city with a unique history of fluctuating fortunes is positioned on cross roads of different cultures and political states. It is a liminal place “a hallucinatory city where fantasy easily brushes with fact.” (Jan Morris) The film’s narrative is weaved from fragments of interviews readings and observations and is a collaboration with writer Deborah Levy.
Theatre of Fruit, 2016
A short film made in response to my participation in the Engaging the Senses conference and my time in Montreal, in October 2016. Sensorially tuned by the various talks I attended, I slipped away one afternoon to explore Jean Talon market and the power of sight to excite other senses. A feast for the eyes alone.
Nameless Wood, 2011
A filmic study of Wistman’s Wood, a unique ancient forest in Dartmoor. My interest in Wistman’s Wood was triggered firstly by the last chapter of John Fowles book ‘The Tree’. In it Fowles describes the wood, one of the last remaining patches of ancient woodland in Britain, in terms of its simultaneous existence within various temporal dimensions, some of which are so vast (due to its ancient age) that our human life cannot comprehend them: “a drama, but of a time-span humanity cannot conceive. A pastness, a presentness, a skill with the tenses the writer in me knows he will never know…” The film was originally made for Just Under the Surface site-specific video installation, Crypt Gallery, London, 2011. Score by Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner.
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