Exiled From Our Bodies

“Effortlessly synthesizing the most interesting research currently underway in the study of sensory perception, while exploring the blunting influence of various technologies, Stehlíková uses her own life and artistic practice as a throughline connecting a splendid panoply of embodied insights. An intersensory and interdisciplinary feast, the book will likely induce a fine derangement of the reader’s senses”. - David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology “This book represents a fascinating account of the artist’s sensuous journey. It is intriguing to see how the author incorporates concepts such as embodied cognition, sensory dominance, synaesthesia and so on as part of her own very personal journey as a film-maker. There is plenty of food for thought, quite literally in her discussion of the Icelandic Journey experiential multisensory dining event, for the interdisciplinary sensory scientist to come away enriched by”. – Charles Spence, University of Oxford “Exiled from our Bodies is a strongly and clearly argued reminder that the arts continue to be grounded in our deep sense of being and the activation and interplay of all our senses. All arts express and mediate our relations with the world and the critical views of this writer apply in the entire realm of the arts. The argumentation is rooted in the author’s personal convictions in the cultural and human values of art, wide reading of relevant literature and her personal exchange through years with thinkers, scholars and artists in the cultural and human meanings of art”. - Juhani Pallasmaa, architect and former professor, Helsinki University of Technology