Journeys and Transmission – The Land/Water symposium (16-17 June 2016)

Thursday 16 and Friday 17 June 2016 Roland Levinsky Building and Scott Building, Plymouth University The Land/Water 2016 symposium, Journeys and Transmission, explores contemporary concerns about our relationship to the world. Following the journeys we make as artists and researchers to acquire knowledge and to share an understanding of what it is to be human… Continue reading Journeys and Transmission – The Land/Water symposium (16-17 June 2016)

4 May 2016: performance research seminar on moving, being & thinking at Plymouth University

You are warmly invited to attend the next in our series of PEP Talks, the seminar series for the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 4 May 2016
, 16.30 – 18.00pm, in the Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University  The papers will be presented by Phil Smith and Ruth Way. Abstracts and titles for both are… Continue reading 4 May 2016: performance research seminar on moving, being & thinking at Plymouth University

Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

BY PHIL SMITH In her recent book Forms (2015), Caroline Levine makes a powerful case against using media and literary fictions as direct analogies for political realities. She warns of the dangerous politics, not least a dependence on “acts of exclusion” and a “constitutive outside” that can accrue from such a tendency. Yet, that is… Continue reading Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”

Dr Phil Smith, speaking on ‘psychogeography’ at Edge Hill University

Plymouth University’s Phil Smith will be one of the keynotes at “Taking it to the Streets: Empowering Interactions with the Urban Environment”: a symposium about psychogeography at Edge Hill University on 23rd February 2016.   Looking back to the ideas and practices from which ‘psychogeography’ emerged, and examining them through the prism of very recent developments… Continue reading Dr Phil Smith, speaking on ‘psychogeography’ at Edge Hill University