Dear friends and fellow walkers
If you are in the Liverpool area tomorrow the University, specifically the dept of Geography and Planning, are hosting a talk by Phil Smith whose work I am sure many of you will find inspiring. The seminar is free and open to all, and you would be very welcome to join us. Details below, with apologies for the short notice due to those pesky circumstances beyond my control. It would be lovely to see some WAN-ers there
very best wishes
Morag
University of Liverpool, Department of Geography and Planning, Seminar Series
Prof Phil Smith from Plymouth University.
Location: GIC, 6th Floor of Roxy Building
Time: 12-1pm Tuesday 29th Oct
Research group: Power, Space and Cultural Change
Title: Threads, Knots, Webs, Myths, Points, the Pattern and the Dark Forest
Abstract: In this talk, Phil will map out some of the ideas about place, time, ontology and narrative emerging from work with the visual artist Helen Billinghurst (in their art and research collaboration as ‘Crab & Bee’) on a series of projects and journeys that bring together attentiveness to site-specificity, practice-as-research, place-narratives and art making. These include ‘Plymouth Labyrinth’ in which the real and imagined margins of the city were explored through walking and the lens of the labyrinth myth and then exhibited (https://plymouthlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/205/ ), ‘Teats Hill Slipway’ where limestone geology and quarrying informed an attempt to re-introduce a myth to a marginalised community (https://plymouthlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2019/06/02/crab-bee-at-teets-hill-with-take-a-part/ ), a chance observation of human/unhuman interaction in Hyde Park, London, and an action in Huddersfield that created an exemplary thread to the Isles of Scilly.
Phil Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Plymouth. He is a writer, artist and academic researcher specialising in walking, site-specificity and mythogeographies. With artist Helen Billinghurst he is one half of Crab & Bee; after a project of walks, readings and exhibition, ‘Plymouth Labyrinth’ (ACE funded) , they are presently researching ‘The Pattern’ for publication by Triarchy Press in 2020. With photographer John Schott and wildlife dj Tony Whitehead, Phil has just published ‘Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage’ (Triarchy Press). His other publications include ‘Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance’ (Red Globe, 2018), ‘Walking’s New Movement’ (2015), ‘On Walking’ (2014) and ‘Mythogeography’ (2010). Phil is company dramaturg for TNT Theatre (Munich).
www.mythogeography.com
https://www.triarchypress.net/smithereens.html
https://www.facebook.com/mythogeography
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