Tereza Stehlikova

Dr. Tereza Stehlikova is a Czech/British artist and educator. Her practice spans moving image, participatory performance and is driven by cross-disciplinary collaboration. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London, where she researched tactile language of moving image. She has been a senior lecturer at University of Westminster for 15 years, as well as a research co-ordinator and PhD supervisor at the RCA. She is currently the head of visual arts department at Vysoká Škola Kreativní Komunikace, Prague and also teaches artistic research methods to PhD students at AMU (Academy of Performing Arts) and FAMU (Film Academy), Prague, and international MA students at UMPRUM (Academy of Art, Architecture and Design), Prague.

Stehlikova is engaged in artistic research, focused on investigating the role our senses and embodiment play in conveying meaning through artistic practice. In particular, she is exploring how moving image can be used to communicate embodied experience and multi-sensory impressions. Stehlikova’s ongoing long-term artist film project, 4 Generations of Women has, amongst other things, been Shortlisted for BFI 61st London Film Festival Experimenta pitch, exhibited in a solo exhibition at Alchemy Film and Art Festival, in Hawick, 2019. Her other ongoing project, Disappearing Wormwood, has been premiered at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in January 2020. Other recent screenings include Stadtkino, Vienna, Austria, Anfilm international festival 2022, CZ, Efea 2022: experimental film festival, Norwich, UK. Her most recent solo exhibitions are Ophelia in Exile, at the Vitrinka Gallery, Czech Centre London, 2021-22, and Familial Traces, 2023 at Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna. Stehlikova’s latest project, The Infra-ordinary Lab, was selected for Prague Quadrennial Festival 2023.

Stehlikova founded and now edits an online arts journal/platform Tangible Territory, featuring essays and articles by established artists/authors from the world of arts, science, philosophy, all centred around the role our senses play in creating meaning in art and life. Stehlikova regularly presents her research at international conferences and her films and performances have been shown at a variety of film and art festivals around the world. She is also a co-founder of Ecstatic Truth symposium.

Website: https://cinestheticfeasts.com/