Sensing Forest Time

FERAL NEST SESSION by Tereza Stehlíková
Petrohradská kolektiv / Petrohradská 13, Prague 13:00 - 14:30

A sensory visit to an ancient Dartmoor forest.

The intention of this session is to try and resonate with the temporality of an ancient forest, in order to move away from the hyperactive, distracted, fragmented time that we all occupy due to our technologies. We will spend 30 minutes immersed in an ancient Dartmoor forest, mediated by an audio-visual projection. The next part will involve time spent with a physical object. The final part will involve a discussion of our experience.

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Tereza Stehlíková

Tereza Stehliková is a Czech/British artist, researcher and educator. She is the head of visual arts department at VSKK and teaches artistic research to PhD and MA students at AMU, FAMU and UMPRUM. Tereza is engaged in artistic research, focused on investigating the role our senses and embodiment play in conveying meaning through artistic practice. Her practice spans moving image, installation and participatory performance and is driven by cross-disciplinary collaboration. She collaborates with scientists, in particular experimental and psychologists and neuroscientist investigating sensory perception and embodiment. She is currently writing a book called Exiled from our Bodies, How to Come back to our Senses, about her artistic research journey, to be published by Routledge (Sensory Studies series, ed. David Howes). She is an editor of 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.