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Blake Morris, Ph.D.

Books

Published as part of Routledge’s Performance Practitioner Series (2022), The book offers a practice-based overview of the works of Antonin Artaud. Published as part of Rowman and Littelfield International’s Radical Cultural Studies Series (2020), the book argues for walking as a distinct artistic medium.

Book Chapters:


Contains ‘Former Fresnans: Mapping Home through a Memory Palace’ (2021), a discussion of my Former Fresnans project. Contains ‘The artistic medium of walking: a model for reflexive tourism -the memory is the medium – tourism, walking and art’ (2020). Contains ‘Hamish Fulton: Opportunities for Storytelling’ (2019), a discussion of Fulton’s participatory slowalks. Featuring Walking with a Beard (2018) inspired by Henry Scott Tuke’s August Blue (1893). Featuring Google Walk (2015),  developed with the Footwork Research Group.

Peer Reviewed Articles:


‘Walking and the art of invitation 5 notes and 3 invitations’ (2023) Irish Journal of Sociology, 31(1), 12–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/07916035221124387
‘Introduction: Walking in the Digital City’ (2021)  Streetnotes, Volume 27, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.5070/S527053476. Co-authored with Claudia Brazzale.

‘Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future’ (2019), Global Performance Studies 2.2. Co-authored with Morag Rose.
‘The Walking Institute: a reflexive approach to tourism’ (2018) International Journal of Tourism Cities, 4(3), pp. 316-329. doi: 10.1108/IJTC-11-2017-0060.
‘The Walking Library: Relating the Landscape’ (2017) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Special Issue: Traversing the Field – Walking and Scottish Landscapes, Iss. 21, Vol. 3.

Other Writing:



‘The Artistic Medium of Walking (In Defence of Medium Specificity)’ (2018) Interartive, Special Issue: Walking Art/Walking Aesthetics.


‘Walking Home: Former Fresnans in the Memory Palace’ (2018) Livingmaps Review, Vol. 4.


‘Slow Marathon 2018: Creating New Narratives through a Walk at a Distance’ (2018) Deveron Projects, Research Zone.

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