Tereza Stehlikova: Artistic research into sensory perception & embodiment
I wanted to share with you the latest poetic film script, which was inspired by the current lockdown and social distancing rules, while also continuing with my experiments using food and its ingestion as a means of transportation into interior worlds. I am very interested in the creative process and therefore find sharing different steps... Continue Reading →
For the past 6 months I have been developing a concept for a new short film, based on a script I wrote in 2013, which itself was inspired by the Futurist Cookbook by FT Marinetti. The Futurist Cookbook, a wonderfully provocative manifesto to creativity, disguised as a cookbook, became a prompt for new kind of... Continue Reading →
A soup for Ophelia: A scenario for a short film Inspired by F. T. Marinetti A white room, a table covered in ivory white, slightly crumpled cloth, soaked in water, still dripping. A diner arrives, alone. She is wearing a moist, velvet green dress and large heavy jewels of glass and copper. Her face is... Continue Reading →
TASTE OF ICELAND: Art, Science and Exploration by Annabel Huxley Our aim was to use “food to evoke and provoke essential states of the mind which otherwise cannot be evoked and provoked” Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook. What would Iceland taste, smell and feel like if you could whet your senses on a journey through that... Continue Reading →
Improvised dinner These improvised dinners are recommended as a means of bringing together maximum originality, variety, surprise, unexpectedness and good humour. Of every cook it is asked that he acquire an attitude that: form and colour are just as important as taste can conceive of an original architecture for every dish, possibly different for each... Continue Reading →
Astronomical dinner The table is made of a sheet of crystal placed on shining aluminium legs. The dining room is completely dark. Sources of variable light on the underside of the table, moving through layer of crystal from bottom to top, and in from two sides toward the centre, illuminate the crystal surface in a... Continue Reading →
Summer Luncheon For Painters and Sculptors After a long period of rest, a painter or sculptor who wants to take up his creative activities again at three o’clock on a summer afternoon may vainly try to excite his artistic inspiration with a succulent – traditional meal. Weighed down, he would then have to walk to... Continue Reading →
Flower, fruit and vegetable portraits created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 -1593) Carrot + Trousers = Professor (formula by the Futurist Poet of National Record Farfa) A raw carrot standing upright, with the thin part at the bottom, where two boiled aubergines are attached with a toothpick to look like violet trousers in the act of... Continue Reading →
From the Wedding Banquet: Some sauteed mushroom are served next, pompously praised by the usual maniacal huntsman: "I gathered them all by myself, between bagging a partridge and a hare in the Pistoia woods, drenched with rain. There's every kind of mushroom , except the poisonous one...unless my myopia has played an ugly trick on me.... Continue Reading →
"In a hunter's cabin secluded in a green-blue-gilded forest, two couples sit down at a rough table made from trunks of oak. The brief blood-red twilight lies in agony beneath the enormous bellies of darkness as if under rain-soaked and seemingly liquid whales. As they wait for the peasant woman to cook, the only food... Continue Reading →
Cinesthetic feasts 