Statement

Franck-Lee Alli-Tis aka V Stylianidou (they/them) works in a variety of media such as video, poetry, sound/music, voice, language, installation and performance. Their artistic process involves a constant renegotiation of public and private narrations, as well as public and private spaces. 
Their work investigates systems of control and power such as language, architecture, body, labour, family, identity and gender. More specifically, Franck-Lee Alli-Tis explores embodied ways of expanding language, challenging and subverting its hegemonic rules in an attempt to suggest new poetic paradigms for knowledge and experience. As part of their video and installation work, Franck-Lee Alli-Tis writes texts that take on a poetic form and enter into dialogue with political and queer-feminist theory as well as with elements from current news.

They also explore the interconnections between language, voice, body and image as rhythm and materiality employing elements from the genre of the spoken word /spoken language as well as from experimental and underground music and poetry movements that question the canon of art making.

In 2019 Franck-Lee Alli-Tis initiated and co-founded the on-going collective artistic process WordMord which explores the relation between language, technology, violence, trauma, pleasure and sexuality. For more information: https://wordmord-ur.la/

The exacerbation of the global sociopolitical, political, economic and climate crisis, lends renewed relevance to the question of “How can art pave new paths for thought and put new artistic practices to the test?“ 

Since 2012 Franck-Lee Alli-Tis aka V Stylianidou started a series of textile- and text based installations in which they make use of textile, texts, voice and rhythm/music. In these series of works-in-progress they investigate the relation of poetic and artistic thought with the reality of (artistic) labour and economy. 
Since 2018 they have been co-curator of the queer-feminist film festival Aphrodite*. https://aphroditeproject.org/ 
In 2011 Franck-Lee Alli-Tis aka V Stylianidou founded the collaborative format STUDIOvisits Berlin (2011-2015). http://studiovisits-berlin.tumblr.com/

Text/sound-based works / poems by Franck-Lee Alli-Tis

.This Text is Already zu spät / Sewing Riverword (performative reading with a poem and a sound work), 2024

.Das Kollektiv der Liebenden (People of the South), 2022

.Letterlovers, 2022

.Nur Zu, Schauer!, 2021

.Joseph Beuys is the name of ..., 2021

.Ehmmm….peering, 2020

.The Flying Body of a Butterfly in a Battlefield, 2018

.Somatic TaleOhrZ. Part I: Who Is the Next Person to Wear It?, 2019

.WordMord_Phase I_ performative reading, 2019

.Hello! My name is Β_ _ o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _d _ y _ _ and I am here to
abduct the f_ _ _ut_ _ u_ _ _ _ _ _ re_ _ _,2017

.KNOTRPSEL, 2016

.FA®THER_ERRATIC PATTERNS, 2016

.Dark Light Appears Lightly Dark, 2016

.My body is my office_, 2016

.A CLOUDish wALL IS HAUNTING THE WORLD, 2015

.Let´s Start With the Letter S, shhh!_As in politic, 2014

.WE ARE THE MANUFACTURERS_PRESS PLAY AND INDEBT YOURSELF, 2013

.IM PARK_Let´s build together your beautiful tower, you charming boy!, 2009

.THE PLOTLESS ROOM, 2007

Texts about V Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis´ work: