Maria Pesli
Maria Pesli is a versatile media artist and researcher with an interdisciplinary background and studies in Film, Digital Forms of Art, and Cultural Management in UK and Greece.
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Overview
Maria Pesli is a versatile media artist and researcher with an interdisciplinary background and studies in Film, Digital Forms of Art, and Cultural Management in UK and Greece. Her creative and academic inquiries revolve around the complexities of identity, belonging, and memory, exploring notions of selfhood, life narratives, diversity, and urban cross-culturalism within the context of visual culture. Her practice-led research utilizes a diverse methodological toolkit, including lens-based media, sound, and archival objects, to investigate life experiences of diverse social groups and implement participatory art projects with a focus on visual life narratives. She works mostly with film, video art, photography and installations and has shown her work in Greece, UK and Switzerland. Her methodology is further informed by a background in contemporary dance and physical theatre, utilising theatre techniques in facilitation processes for socially engaged participatory art.
Her professional trajectory is defined by a variety of collaborations with academic institutions and international organisations, including the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panteion University, Athens School of Fine Arts, National Film Board of Canada, Al Jazeera International, ERIM (Equal Rights and Independent Media)(France), Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Germany), Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI), Museum of Political Exile “Ai-Stratis”, and Fournos theatre among else. Furthermore, her extensive work in the humanitarian sector includes educational and community arts projects with the UNHCR Greece, Karpos (Center for Education and Intercultural Communication), Mercy Corps and the Greek Council for Refugees.
Currently, she serves as a lecturer in BSBI Creative Industries Faculty, in Hamburg campus, teaching various modules in BA Animation, BA Graphic Design and MA Visual Communication.
Courses
Various modules in Foundation, BA Animation, BA Graphic Design, MA Visual Communication
Research interests
Visual narratives, Visual Communication, Storytelling, Video Art, Experimental Film, Participatory Art, Arts-based Research, Identity and Belonging, Selfhood, Autoethnography
Areas of Expertise
Visual Narratives, Visual Communication, Storytelling, Short film, Art and Media Critical Theories, Research Methodologies for Art and Design, Visual Culture.