Alice's Derives in Devonshire by Phil Smith
In Alice's Derives in Devonshire, Phil Smith embodies in a modern fairy tale his preoccupations with mythogeography (the inner and outer worlds of psychogeography) - bringing them together to describe the possibilities that offer themselves up to us when we live and walk and dream without our usual blinkers.
From The Foreword by Bradley LGarrett (place hacker and author of Explore Everything: "In Alice's Derives, Phil Smith captures the wonder of childhood imaginations and reminds us of the importance of continuing to embrace desire, letting it play out through our imaginations. Phil reminds us of the continuing importance of transforming spaces into places. Alice and her friends encounter a world that seems at the same time completely familiar and bizarrely bleary-eyed; they are adept explorers of the everyday, finding the impossible all around them. In transporting us to this world from the perspective of a curious nine-year-old girl, Phil also reminds us that those experiences carry with them a hidden danger, the reason why we fear that rudderless lot: the wonders of the everyday waiting to be found are so tantalizing, so satisfying, that we may never emerge from them. This of course is what many of us are embarrassed to admit in adulthood - the compulsion to run away, to escape, never wholly vanished, we just suppressed it out of supposed necessity."
Dr. Phil Smith has claws in several different worlds. One, large and wide, is in performance and music theatre [he has written more than 100 plays for companies including St Petersburg State Comedy Theatre, Opera North and Perpetual Motion, and he is dramaturg with TNT (Munich)]. From site-specific performances in South Devon beach huts, lidos, tea shops and other unconventional settings, to mis-guides in National Trust properties, to counter-tours and drifts in city streets, Crab Man has long practised what he preaches in this Handbook. He is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the University of Plymouth and a visiting lecturer at the University of Exeter. He is also one of four core member of a group of artist-researchers called Wrights and Sites, who have generated a range of mis-guides, performances, possible cities and forests and other wonders.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781909470392 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909470392 |
| Title | Alice's Derives in Devonshire |
| Author | Phil Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Triarchy Press |
| Year published | 2014-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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