A book about developments in walking and walk-performance for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. walking’s new movement is intended for anyone who makes, or wants to make, walking art or walk-performances - and for anyone interested in psychogeography, radical walking, drift and dérive, site-specific performance, and the use/abuse of public space in the shadow of Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Savile and many others.

"I'm bursting to say how beautiful, bewildering and breathtaking this book is. I don't want it to end...maybe it never does..." - 5-star reader's reviewThis is a book for urban explorers, imaginative walkers, ambulant youngsters, difficult drifters, artists of the path less travelled, mythogeographers, psychogeographers, situationists and all the restless.Phil Smith author of 'Mythogeography', 'On Walking' and the 'Counter-Tou...

An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking “normally” by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.

An arrival and the usual between father and son. Then the meeting with June, the woman of the young mans dreams. Their coming together and the life they lead in this new world.The mistake, the discovery, the handing in. The trial and after and that ending!

This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it’s more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism ‘tactics’ plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.It also features more than 200 colour photographs, gathered by the author in the course of his counter-tourist driftings.In addition, ...

In this Footbook, Phil Smith (Mytho, Crab Man) extends his critical account of the gentle walking arts to the predatory lurch of the living dead. The author has been a keen observer of the zombie mythos for the past 35 years, and here he draws on the mass of plots, images and metaphors that can be found swarming in zombie movies and comics. Instead of treating zombie media as a kind of parallel universe, he concentrates on the 'normality' of the zombie apocalypse - showing how zombies have...

This long-awaited new book is an extraordinary, wide-ranging, funny, and clever account of 40 years in the life of the most successful touring theatre company of all time. The authors dance between magical storytelling...offering a masterclass on the skills and practice of acting, directing, and writing for theatre, considering the role of theatre in different countries and continents, and offering a eye-opening history of TNT.

Phil Smith of Wrights & Sites' fame is not the first to walk in the footsteps of W.G. Sebald, whose The Rings of Saturn is an account a walk round Suffolk 20 years ago.What is remarkable is that Phil's own walk was quite as extraordinary as Sebald's and that he matches Sebald's erudition, originality and humour swathe for swathe.On one level On Walking... describes an actual, lumbering walk from one incongruous B&B to the next, taking in D...

Separately, 13 Artifacts guide the fate of the universe. Together, 13 Artifacts will end the universe.

Separately, 13 Artifacts guide the fate of the universe. Together, 13 Artifacts will end the universe.

Written by Mad scholars, a Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to "do" Mad Studies? What are the field's intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come-a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-...

Diagrammatical Performances’ traces some of the traditions and contemporary developments in the uses of diagrams – actual and metaphorical – in the making of performance that nurtures a relationship between humans and more-than-humans.Addressing students, researchers, and teachers of radical theatre, eco-activists, makers of eco-theatre and site-specific performance, the book provides a radical description of the diagram, a history of its uses in theatre and performance, and a tool...