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Graduate Student, School of Art and Media
Thesis Title: Performative Interventions In Touristic and Heritage Space
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Recent publications include an essay in 'The Hidden City Festival Handbook' (University of Plymouth Press) and 'Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways' with Triarchy Press.
www.mythogeography.com
Recent papers include 'Tourists/Terrorists – Useful Ambiguities in a Search for Models' (for Rhizomes) and for Cultural Geographies, 'The Contemporary Dérive: a partial review of issues concerning the contemporary practice of psychogeography' is now also online at
http://www.pucsp.br/pos/tidd/teccogs/artigos.html
A co-written 'manifesto' has recently been published - A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: 'dealing with the city' co-authored with Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti & Cathy Turner. It is published in Performance and the Contemporary City: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Nicolas Whybrow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Phil's background is in theatre-making, as a writer and dramaturg, specialising in recent years in performance inspired by walking.
His present research includes the uses of performance in heritage sites including guided tours, the theory and practice of mythogeography, ideas of spatialization in cinema, contemporary developments of the situationist 'drift' and acting in site-based performance. He has also been carrying out a series of walks, experimenting with the use of ‘inner maps’ (simple mental disciplines with a spatial aspect).
Copies of the films A Mis-Guided Tour, The Devil's Footprints and GeoQuest (all filmed by Siobhan McKeown) are now available free of charge for teaching and research purposes from philip.smith@plymouth.ac.uk
There is an account of autobiographical-performance aspects of Phil's work in Deirdre Heddon's 'Autobiography and Performance' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) pages 105-111.
Two texts from his Crab Walks performances and an essay on walking and mythogeography are published in 'Walking, Writing and Performance', edited by Roberta Mock, Bristol: Intellect, 2009. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4571/
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