During her year at Linköping University as visiting professor in the name of Moa Martinson, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert has taken part in seminars, conferences, talks, exhibitions and trips. She is grateful for the exchanges that she received through numerous of engaging formal and informal conversations. She highlights Tema Q’s weekly seminars as particularly significant noting that they provided opportunities to engage with guest speakers, discussions about texts, artworks and research proposals.
When you arrived at LiU, you spoke about working at the intersection of art, research, and society. How has that role developed during the year?
“I continue to work at the intersection of art, research and society. However, during my stay at LiU I was prompted to further clarify and articulate my working methods.”
Over the past year, she has been working on a book titled Reframing Archaeology: Photography, Archives and Colonial Cyprus, which brings together and reflects on five of her art and research projects. The book is part of Bloomsbury’s Contemporary Art/Archaeology series, edited by Doug Bailey and Monika Stobiecka.
“As the series addresses both academic and artistic audiences, one of the key challenges was to find an accessible tone and language through which to discuss my art-based research practice. This process proved invaluable because it helped me to better articulate my working methods and their connections to broader societal concerns, including decolonization, archival activism, and artificial intelligence.”
