The Davenports play Huddersfield (process)
To find a mode of performance for the Cultures of Place project Davenports Play Huddersfield (Taylor, 2022) I wanted to…
Making Dark Magicks at Doomsday
After three years of pandemic related cancellations and delays, the highlight of the UK Bizarre Magick calendar, Doomsday, returned to…
Séance: A View through the Veil
*The film is now available to watch on the Media of Mediumship YouTube channel* An aptitude for deception is all…
Hiding the Elephant in the Room – Performance Magic and Practice Research
A transcription of a research seminar delivered 31/03/21 The seminar itself is now live: Thank you for inviting me to…
Bizarre Magick: An Experiment in Paranormal Entertainment – Early doors
For the next few months I’ll shall be mostly blogging about a research/teaching project that begins in earnest this September. …
Halloween Happening 2017 – The thinning of the veil …
I once again had the pleasure of joining Ashton Carter and Roger Curzon in an evening of performance at the…
The Mysterium #1 Overview
The Mysterium* played the Sir Patrick Stewart Theatre a couple of weekends ago and was an experiment in devising using…
Mr Punch goes to Horror Con
Last weekend we brought Mr Punch’s Cabinet of Curiosities to Horror Con. It was our second visit and safe to…
Doomsday VII
I attended Doomsday VII last weekend it still remains the highlight of my year. It’s an extraordinary couple of days,…
Betwixt Jest and Earnest
Michael Mangan in Performing Dark Arts: A cultural history of conjuring (2007) talks of the paraxial and the notion that…
Spooky Seque
A big thank you goes out to everyone who attended my Research Seminar on Performing Séance it was great to…
Performing Séance: Four Steps to Collective Delusion
On Thursday 30th October 6.00pm as part of the Magic Research Group’s Seminar Series I shall be giving a presentation…
Scripting & Storytelling For Paranormal Entertainers
This month it was an honour to supply and Introduction to Scripting & Storytelling For Paranormal Entertainers, published May 2011….
Collective Delusion and the Madness of Crowds
(April 2011) Collective Delusion and the Madness of Crowds published in Occult Magic 2: Into The Darkness by Freddie Valentine.
Southlake Medical Research
(February 2011) A Horror themed walkthrough experience. Southlake Medical Research is locked down following a biohazard alert. Can you escape…
Illusion for ‘Spring Awakening’.
(January 2010) For a production of Spring Awakening the director required a headless body and a bodiless head to manifest…
Things that go bump in the night: Fact, fiction and the audience in séance performance
[Ongoing] Joint authored project with Madelon Hoedt.
Dircks’s phantasmagoria.
[Current] An attempt to re-create Dirck’s Phantasmagoria. (Joint authored project with David Wainwright)
Throw Six to Start
(December 2010) “an enchanting effect based on the games of our childhood” in The Mystic Menagerie Issue 3. Available from…
Magic and the M-Word
Magic and the M-Word (2010). Co-authored with Madelon Hoedt. Essay for the collection published by Psycrets. Publication date: tbc.
How Psychic Are You?
October 31st 2010″Psychic Tests and interactive fun with Dr Orlando Watt”
Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magick.
Taylor, Nik and Nolan, Stuart (2009) Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magick. The Ninth Biannual Conference of…
‘Bizarre Magick.’ [Performance]
A walkaround performance illustrating Bizarre Magick (July 2009) at The Ninth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association at Lancaster…
Many Magics
Many Magics (May 2009) is an ‘informance’ that blurs the distinct between true biography and invented persona. The magician takes…
England’s Home of Mystery
(December 2007) Magic is about deception, it is also about lying. Magic is an art form that allows you to…