Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome! Papers on Painting & Performance by Jeremy Diggle & Helen Billinghurst Wednesday 29th March, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building RLB308, Plymouth University Professor Jeremy Diggle: “The Performance of Painting” Jeremy Diggle is Honorary… Continue reading 29 March 2017: Artistic Research Seminar on Painting & Performance
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Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference
Dr Phil Smith, Reader in Theatre & Performance at the University of Plymouth, is presenting a keynote lecture at the Supernatural Cities II: Gothic Cities conference in Limerick, Ireland, in April 2017. This conference offers interdisciplinary conversations and activities for artists, folklorists, historians, geographers, literary, theatre and film scholars that explore urban Gothic and supernatural contexts.… Continue reading Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference
CfP: ‘On the Moors’ postgraduate research conference
2017 PEP Talks Conference: On the Moors Call for presentations: University of Plymouth Performance.Experience.Presence Postgraduate Conference 10-11 June 2017, in Dartmoor National Park, Devon We are seeking proposals for our annual trans-disciplinary practice-research postgraduate conference. We invite contributions from arts and humanities post-graduate students and early career researchers that focus on collaborative methods and/or… Continue reading CfP: ‘On the Moors’ postgraduate research conference
Feature: “Artistic thinking, walking and silence for well-being”
BY JAANA ERKKILÄ-HILL A well-known story tells about three wise men who followed a star and left their valuable presents to a newborn baby somewhere in the Middle East over two thousand years ago. It is a strange story about looking for meaning and value in something that is unknown; a story about following your… Continue reading Feature: “Artistic thinking, walking and silence for well-being”
Dr. Phil Smith is walking-artist-in-residence at Carleton College, Minnesota
Dr Phil Smith is travelling to America to begin a residency at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he will be teaching a number of media studies classes and leading short public exploratory walks. In addition he will present a public performance walk titled “Blazing Worlds” on 14 May 2016. During his time at Carleton College, Phil is participating in the ‘Walk’ 2016 festival. He… Continue reading Dr. Phil Smith is walking-artist-in-residence at Carleton College, Minnesota
Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”
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”
Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016
Crossing England an exhibition by Helen Billinghurst at the Arial Centre, Totnes Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4pm and Saturdays, 9.30am – 12noon (normally, please see below) ALL WELCOME – FREE ADMISSION Crossing England features artwork made in response to walking the twenty-first century landscape. Traces of history, memory, personal mythology, childhood games and stories… Continue reading Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016