Footbook of Zombie Walking

Footbook of Zombie Walking
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1911193198

A book about despair, climate change, zombie films, multiple apocalypses, the everyday, city-dwelling, zombies, walking and walk-performance, imperialism, sex, zombie literature, refugees, popular culture and zombies.

The MK Myth

The MK Myth
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018-09-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1911193503

the world’s first walkable novel - set in Milton Keynes

Queering the Family in The Walking Dead

Queering the Family in The Walking Dead
Author: John R. Ziegler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 331999798X

This book traces how The Walking Dead franchise narratively, visually, and rhetorically represents transgressions against heteronormativity and the nuclear family. The introduction argues that The Walking Dead reflects cultural anxiety over threats to the family. Chapter 1 examines the destructive competition created by heteronormativity, such as the conflict between Rick and Shane. Chapter 2 focuses on the actual or attempted participation of characters such as Carol and Negan in queer relationships. Chapter 3 interprets zombies as queer antagonists to heteronormativity, while Chapter 4 explores the incorporation of zombies into the lives of characters such as the Governor and the Whisperers. The conclusion asserts that The Walking Dead presents both queer alternatives to and damaging contradictions within the traditional heterosexual family model, helping to question this model and to consider the struggle of queer American families. Overall, this study holds special interest for students and scholars of queerness, zombies, and the family.

Anywhere

Anywhere
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1911193147

A mythogeography of South Devon and how to walk it

Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350316466

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.

Bonelines

Bonelines
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1913743071

A dark novel set in the 'Lovecraft Villages' of Devon, spanning several thousand years, from the time it was occupied by the Dumnonii, through the 19th century to its more contemporary occupation by holiday park dwellers, marketing professionals, doggers and other romantics.

Embodying the Dead

Embodying the Dead
Author: Claire Hind
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350316636

Where do we find the dead? Do the dead appear in our dreams? What is it like to play dead? This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that remember, personify and re-imagine the dead, it playfully unpacks the psychoanalytic concepts of the Death Drive, Desire and the Uncanny as a way of thinking about performance. Embodying the Dead draws on work of Gary Winters and Claire Hind and the various qualities of deadness found in their projects. The authors' work includes live art, theatre, installation, Super 8mm film, walking arts practice and durational performance. This book includes scripts and scores of their performances, original creative texts, interviews with internationally renowned artists and a series of practice-led research tasks to support readers creating their own imaginative performance work. Rich in creative and critical content, this book is ideal for students of drama, theatre and performance studies who have an interest in devised theatre, theatre making, writing for performance and intermedial practice.

She is the Sea

She is the Sea
Author: Helen Billinghurst
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1911193732

A poetry pamphlet with one shoreline essay and one riverbank essay

TNT The New Theatre

TNT The New Theatre
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1911193856

an extraordinary, wide-ranging, funny, clever account of 40 years in the life of the most successful touring theatre company of all time.

The Footbook of Zombie Walking

The Footbook of Zombie Walking
Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Consciousness
ISBN: 9781909470873

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. A keen observer of the zombie mythos for the past 35 years, he draws on the multitude of plots, images and metaphors swarming from movies and comics to describe a groundbreaking way to have presence in everyday life. Invoking slowness, fragmentary consciousness, thickness and thingness, the author describes in strategic theory and a horde of tactics, how to walk from Night to Day and away from the old Dawn into a radical nothingness. Gorehounds will never see the zombie the same way again. Drawing examples from across the spectum of the living dead product, with plenty from its margins, Phil Smith celebrates and berates the zombie; then turns it into a meditation, a manifesto, a dance score and the herald of a social movement. Shambling around the three key principles of Interiority, Carnival and an End to Ends, the Footbook of Zombie Walking is a way back to a vital Life and an art of Living. It is the next step, beyond Mythogeography, to ending media predations, putting subjectivities back on the streets and coming to be present in everday life. The Footbook is a toolkit for anyone who wants to make their every gentle step or crawl an uprising against the apocalypse and a march to real life over the remains of a spectacle. 'When Humanity is fed up, then the living walk the Earth.'