The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Phil's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Phil
Dr Phil Smith is an Associate Professor. He is an academic researcher, writer and artist specialising in walking, site-specific performance, dramaturgy, diagrammatical performances, eco-gothic fictions and mythogeographies. He welcomes enquiries from postgraduate students interested in researching fields similar or adjacent to these areas; he is currently Director of Studies for Trystan Verran (bardik practice) and Patrick Ford (myth-making in Leeds arcades). With artist Helen Billinghurst he works as the 'Crab' half of Crab & Bee; after a project of walks, readings and exhibition, ‘Â鶹´«Ã½ Labyrinth’, they published ‘The Pattern' (2020) with Triarchy Press. His other publications include 'Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights' (2024), 'The Common' (2023), 'Living In The Magical Mode' (2022), ‘Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance’ (Red Globe Press/Bloomsbury, 2018), ‘Walking’s New Movement’ (2015), ‘On Walking’ (2014) and ‘Mythogeography’ (2010). At present he is preparing a monograph on eco-eerie movies for Undefined Boundary Press. Phil is company dramaturg of TNT Theatre (Munich) and co-author with its artist director, Paul Stebbings, of 'TNT: The New Theatre' (2022, Triarchy Press).
Supervised Research Degrees
Helen Billinghurst (PhD) 'Ways of making: producing artworks in the studio in response to experiential walking'
Ivan Pope (PhD) 'My Auschwitz State of Mind: a study of emergence of a text in relation to Auschwitz'Â Â
Teaching
Site-based theatre, ambulatory performance, performance and environments, community theatre, improvisation, directing, playwriting, live art, symbolist theatre, rough theatre.