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.

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...

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...

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...

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!

Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World is a collection of stories by neurodivergent people who identify as being Mad, about what it's like to live Mad in a world that oppresses them for the ways they think, live, and act differently from those who consider themselves Normal.intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes dark, these stories are always illuminating. some describe situations that are vibrantly shameful, horrifyingly scary, and just plain hard....

This eighth volume of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology features two dozen strange tales in which things are never quite what they seem -- tales of smoke and mirrors, both literal and metaphorical -- from 24 authors: J S Allen, Charles R Bernard, Chris Campeau, Samantha Carr, C B Droege, James Fritz, Orrin Grey, Amanda Hard, Brian Jenkins, Eben Lou, R J Lynch, Mark McElroy, Donna J W Munro, Scott Nicolay, Mark A Nobles, Noley Reid, J L Royce, Guy Russell, Dani Alexis Ryskamp,...

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find a site and generate a performance beyond the theatre building.