Walking's New Movement
Phil Smith 

A book about developments in walking and walk-performance for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics.

In walking’s new movement  Phil Smith considers where things are at for walking (as art and as performance), psychogeography, and the use and abuse of public space.

Readership

walking’s new movement is intended for anyone who makes, or wants to make, walking art or walk-performances - and for anyone interested in psychogeography, radical walking, drift and dérive, site-specific performance, and the use/abuse of public space in the shadow of Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Savile and many others.
Publication: 20th April 2015 
List Price: £10.00
Format: ~ Paperback - 108 pages
Size: 12.7 x 20.3 cm
ISBN: 978-1-909470-69-9
Tags: walking, walking arts, drift, dérive, wrights & sites, mythogeography, mis-guide, psychogeography,  improvisation, phil smith, situationism, Debord

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Among other things, Phil Smith proposes:

  • An unravelling of psychogeography from its early roots,  assessing its contribution to the state of the walking arts, and looking forwards/around to what might come next.
  • a partial mapping of the ‘evolution’ of walking that looks at ‘stages’ in that evolution.
  • a helicopter view that allows walking artist/practitioners to place themselves in historical and artistic context.
  • important new ideas about abusive semi-public spaces  (in the wake of scandals in the UK and elsewhere involving public figures, the church and others) – suggesting how radical walking can act against ‘the spectacle’ and power. 
  • a compelling theory about romanticism and the postmodern in relation to walking. 
  • a World Brain for walking.
  • strategies, tactics and a full manifesto for Radical Walking.
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SWIM, Amy Sharrocks. Photo: Ruth Corney
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Nando Messias: The Sissy's Progress. Photo: Loredana Denicola

Early comments from readers

"a passionate, entertaining and an incisive view of 'radical walking' in its many-tentacled elusive forms." Roy Bayfield
Read more reviews here.
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Phil Smith. Image credits appear in full in the book.

Extract from Gareth E Rees's   Unofficial Britain (2020):

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