Walking Bodies

Claire Hind is an Associate Professor in the School of Performance and Media Production at York St John University where she runs the MA in Theatre and Performance. She has an international reputation for her teaching and has been a guest practitioner at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, School of the Arts Institute Chicago, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and New York University. Claire has an international performance practice with artist Gary Winters - together they create dream walks, Super 8mm film, live and visual art influenced by cult cinema, dead icons and dark emotional ballads.. Helen Billinghurst is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, researcher and writer. With a background as a film maker, she now works within the expanded fields of painting and drawing. Her recent doctoral research at the University of Plymouth explored the intersection between studio practice and aesthetic walking. She currently lectures at Plymouth College of Art, and her research interests include the performance of making, site-specificity and embodied process. In 2014 Helen was resident artist for six months at High Cross House in Dartington, Devon. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Crossing England' (Arial Centre, Totnes, 2016), 'Embodied Cartographies' (Walcot Gallery, Bath Fringe Festival curated by Fay Stevens, 2016), 'English Diagrams' (Royal William Yard, Plymouth, 2018) and 'Walking Diagrams' (Walking's New Movements Conference, University of Plymouth, 2019). Other recent commissions include an article for the catalogue of 'Dear Christine', (a touring exhibition about the life of Christine Keeler, by women artists, curated by Fionn Wilson, 2019). Collaborating with Phil Smith as Crab & Bee, Helen makes walks, performances, poetry and exhibitions. They have worked together on an exhibition and walking project called 'Plymouth Labyrinth' (funded by Arts Council England), and a residency at Teats Hill slipway (for Take Apart, Plymouth, 2019). They are writing a new book, The Pattern based on walks across Southern England and Wales. Dr. Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer and academic researcher, specialising in work around walking, site-specificity, mythogeographies and counter-tourism. With artist Helen Billinghurst, he is one half of Crab & Bee, who have recently completed an exhibition and walking project called 'Plymouth Labyrinth (funded by Arts Council England), a short walking project in the Isles of Scilly and a residency at Teats Hill slipway. They are currently engaged in a series of walks across the UK researching their forthcoming book, The Pattern (2020). With Tony Whitehead and photographer John Schott, Phil recently published Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage with Triarchy Press. He is currently developing a 'subjectivity-protective movement practice' with Canada-based choreographer Melanie Kloetzel. With Claire Hind and Helen Billinghurst, he co-organised the 2019 'Walking's New Movements' conference at the University of Plymouth. As company dramaturg and co-writer for TNT Theatre (Munich), he most recently premiered 'Free Mandela', co-authored with TNT's artistic director Paul Stebbings, about the end of apartheid in South Africa. Paul and Phil are presently working on a book about TNT Theatre's transformation from tiny experimental theatre company to global touring organisation. Phil is a member of site-based arts collective Wrights & Sites, who recently published The Architect-Walker (2018). As well as Walking Stumbling Limping Falling (2017) with poet Alyson Hallett, Phil's publications include Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance (Red Globe/Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Rethinking Mythogeography (2018) (with US photographer John Schott), Anywhere (2017), A Footbook of Zombie Walking and Walking's New Movement (2015), On Walking and Enchanted Things (2014), Counter-Tourism: The Handbook (2012) and Mythogeography (2010). He is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Plymouth.

Introductions
Magical Aesthetics: walking with eight legs - Sarah Scaife
Walking in Tree Time - Duncan Hay, Leah Lovett, Martin de Jode, Andrew Hudson-Smith
Dancing-Walking with Trees - Vicky Hunter
Walking with Elephants - Cathy Turner
Being Horse: walking as an impossible beast - James Frost and Sonia Overall
Pigeon Steps - Gabrielle Hoad and Megan Calver
Crow - Matt Fletcher
Walking away? From deep mapping to mutual accompaniment - Iain Biggs
Web Walking - Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith
The Artist-Scholar Walks: Passage to Else-Where - Ishita Jain
How do our bodies act as instruments of sensory navigation? - Emma Bush
Suriashi as a ceremonial, subversive act - Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt
From Working to Walking - Chloe Lund
Inspiral Undergrowth - Rachel Gomme
The Sight of the Walker - William Sharpe
Walking Diagrams - Helen Billinghurst
Visiting Sutton Pool - Monali Meher
Object Place Walking - Jody Oberfelder
A Route Unscrambled - Gary Winters and Claire Hind
Words from Walks - Hamish Fulton
Quipu - Elspeth (Billie) Penfold
The S Project - Carly Butler and Gudrun Filipska
White Man Walking: Settler Ambulation in Colonised Spaces - Ken Wilson
Walking-with whiteness - Richard S. White/Walknow
The Meaning and Importance of Refusals - Sarah Harper
Access Denied? Walking Art and Disabled People - Morag Rose
Mind the Gap - Philippe Guillaume
The Documentary Drift: Lutyens, Cockington and Poetry - Sam Kemp
'It started with a film and ended with a walk' - Sam Christie
Chip Walks - Hilary Ramsden and Clare Qualmann
Noble & King, Walking with Correspondence - Simon King and Corinne Noble
Chasing Mists - Anna Sanders-Falcini
On Mythogeosonics - John Bowers and Tim Shaw