Tereza Violet Stehlíková, Ph.D.

tereza.stehlikova@aauni.edu

Letenská 5, Prague 1

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Tereza Violet Stehlíková is a Czech/British artist, researcher, writer, and educator. She holds a doctorate and master’s degree in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Central Saint Martins. Her work spans moving image, installation, participatory performance, writing, and artistic research, with a focus on sensory and embodied experience in meaning-making.

Stehlíková began her research appointment at Anglo-American University in 2026. Her academic experience includes roles at the University of Westminster, the Royal College of Art, and the University of Creative Communication in Prague. She also teaches artistic research at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and UMPRUM.

Her cross-disciplinary research connects artistic practice, sensory studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, and art-science dialogue. Her monograph Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses was published by Routledge in 2025. She is founder and editor of Tangible Territory and co-founder of “Ecstatic Truth,” an international symposium series on expanded animation and documentary practice.

Her films, installations and participatory performances have been presented internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, Prague Quadrennial, Somerset House, Stadtkino Vienna, the British Film Institute London Film Festival, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the Under_the_RADAR festival in Vienna.

Specializations

  • Artistic research
  • Sensory studies and embodiment
  • Haptic visuality and tactile moving image
  • Multisensory aesthetics and cross-modal perception
  • Moving image, installation and participatory performance
  • Expanded animation and documentary practice
  • Art-science collaboration
  • The infra-ordinary, place, atmosphere and lived space
  • Practice-based doctoral research and supervision

Publications

  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2026). Tactile matters: Haptic dialogue and material empathy in moving image practice. In B. Hosea & J. Hagler (Eds.), Expanded Animation: Synaesthetic Syntax. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2026). Trieste: In-between states. In D. Wiemann (Ed.), John Berger in Collaboration. Intellect Books. Forthcoming.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2026). How to come back to your senses. Psyche.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2025). Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses. Routledge.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2025). TT Journal: Treading and tracing a common territory. Journal for Artistic Research.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2023). The Infra-ordinary Lab. Theatralia.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2014). Mapping the terrain of lived space. In Artistic Research – Strategies for Embodiment. Nordic Summer University.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2013). Tactility and film. In It’s a Method! Practice-Based Research. Bauhaus University Weimar.
  • Berger, J., & Michaels, A. (2011). Railtracks. Photographs by T. Stehlíková. Go Together Press.
  • Stehlíková, T. V. (2007). The Story of Violet. Go Together Press.

Artistic & Research Activities

  • Absolute Now II, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, 2026.
  • The Infra-ordinary Lab, participatory performance, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, 2023.
  • Familial Traces, solo video installation, Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna, 2023.
  • Ophelia in Exile, solo video installation, Vitrinka Gallery, Czech Centre London, 2021.
  • Disappearing Wormwood, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2020.
  • Touch Talk Tell: Sensory Storytelling, Somerset House, London, 2017.
  • TRIESTE: In-between States, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2016.
  • Absolute Now, Atsuko Barouh Gallery, Tokyo, 2015.

Curatorial and Editorial Leadership

  • Founder and editor, Tangible Territory, 2020-present.
  • Co-founder and organiser/curator, Ecstatic Truth symposium series, 2016-present.
  • Concept and curation, MAKING SENSE minifest, 2025.
  • Co-curator and co-organiser, In-Habit international symposium, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, 2022.