I walked with a zombie: what the living dead can teach us

This collaborative lecture by Lee Miller, Kayla Parker, Phil Smith and Roberta Mock will explore and celebrate zombies as a cultural phenomenon through contemporary understandings of performance. It will also suggest ways that zombies might act as models to help us to understand theories of performance that centre on participation, presence, space, representation, mediation and embodiment..

I walked with a zombie: what the living dead can teach us about performance

Lee Miller, Roberta Mock, Kayla Parker & Phil Smith,
Plymouth University

This collaborative lecture will explore and celebrate zombies as a cultural phenomenon through contemporary understandings of performance. It will also suggest ways that zombies might act as models to help us to understand theories of performance that centre on participation, presence, space, representation, mediation and embodiment.

Lee Miller is Associate Professor in Theatre & Performance; he is interested in landscape, collaboration, the ability of the body to endure. Roberta Mock is Professor of Performance Studies; her research focuses on gender, sexuality, culture, place and the performing body. Kayla Parker is Lecturer in Media Arts; her research centres on subjectivity and place, embodiment and technological mediation, from feminist perspectives. Phil Smith is Research Fellow in Performance & the Everyday; he researches and practices in the fields of walking, performance and counter-tourism.

Lee, Roberta, Kayla and Phil are co-organizing an academic symposium, “Zombies: Walking, Eating and Performance,” and mini-zombie film fest at Plymouth University (12/13 April 2013): www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/hpa/zombies or email livingdead@plymouth.ac.uk

For more information visit http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=39680