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Phil Smith

Phil Smith

Phil Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader). He is an academic researcher, writer and artist specialising in walking, site-specific performance, dramaturgy 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 Tryg Verran (contemporary bardic performance) and Patrick Ford (arcades of Leeds). With artist Helen Billinghurst he works as the 'Crab' half of Crab & Bee; after publishing ‘The Pattern' (Triarchy Press, 2020) they are currently working on practical research in making diagrammatical performances.
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areobate

From translations of the Greek playwright Aristophanes: It literally means to walk on the air, but actually means to walk as if on air. What a perfect word for buoyant sauntering, after, say, receiving good news. Credits to Mark Peters.

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