Statement

Franck-Lee Alli-Tis aka V Stylianidou (they/them) works across a variety of media, including video, poetry, sound/music, voice, language, installation, and performance. Their artistic process involves a continuous renegotiation of public and private narratives, as well as the spaces in which they unfold.

Their practice investigates systems of control and power—such as language, architecture, the body, labor, family, identity, and gender. Franck-Lee is particularly interested in embodied ways of expanding language: challenging and subverting its hegemonic structures to propose new poetic paradigms for knowledge and experience. Their video and sound installations often incorporate experimental poetic texts that engage with queer-feminist theory and respond to elements drawn from current news and media.

They explore the intersections between language, voice, body, and image as rhythm and materiality, drawing from spoken word traditions, as well as experimental and underground music and poetry movements that challenge dominant artistic canons.

In 2019, Franck-Lee initiated and co-founded WordMord, an ongoing collective and transdisciplinary artistic research project. WordMord explores the complex entanglements of language, the body, and technology with trauma and violence—but also with pleasure and sexuality. The collective seeks to deconstruct and destabilize hegemonic, patriarchal language by illuminating the performative and material dimensions of words.

From 2012 to 2016, Franck-Lee Alli-Tis (aka V Stylianidou) developed a series of textile- and text-based installations that combine fabric, language, voice, and rhythm/music. These ongoing works investigate the relationship between poetic/artistic thinking and the lived realities of (artistic) labor and economy.

Since 2018, they have been co-curator of the queer-feminist film festival Aphrodite* (aphroditeproject.org).
In 2011, they founded the collaborative platform STUDIOvisits Berlin (2011–2015) — studiovisits-berlin.tumblr.com.

They live and work between Berlin and Athens.

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

.Skin Is the Longest Organ, 2025

.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: