Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Nik Taylor is Director of Teaching and Learning for The School of Music, Humanties, and Media at the University of Huddersfield where he researches and lectures on Performance Magic and Creative Technical Theatre. He is co-editor of The Journal of Performance Magic.
He has worked as a performer, writer and director; working on a number of projects in the UK, Germany and France, including Discurs’96 & The Festival of Contemporary European Plays. He has designed for Performance City, FestCEP & Sapajou, produced a low budget feature, and performed as a dancing penguin.
As a Research Magician, he is coordinator of the Magic Research Group and is currently undertaking a research on Performing Real Magic(K): The Conjurer and Audience in Bizarre Magic. As a performer, Nik specialises in Bizarre Magic, Sideshow, Séance and Divination. Nik co-curates Mr Punch's Cabinet of Curiosities a dark museum of weird and haunted artefacts. He recently advised on the Thackray Medical Museum’s The Magic of Medicine exhibition and Proper Job Theatre’s Nosferatu and performed in Hester Reeve’s YMEDACA at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and The British Society of Mystery Entertainers.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Magic
- Performance Magic
- Bizarre Magic
- Technical Theatre
- Interactive Theatre
- Immersive Theatre
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Research Output
Identity and Persona
Taylor, N., 16 Feb 2020, The Magiculum II. Landman, T. (ed.). Lulu Press Inc., p. 58-63 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Seance a view through the veil
Taylor, N. & Cooper, A., 30 May 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Magic and Broken Knowledge; Reflections on the practice of Bizarre Magick
Taylor, N., 10 Apr 2018, In : Journal of Performance Magic. 5, 1, 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Mr Punch's Cabinet of Curiosity
Taylor, N., 25 Nov 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Activities
Four stages to hacking reality.
Nik Taylor (Keynote speaker)16 Nov 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Spiritualists and Magicians: Outrage, Appropriation and the Birth of a Performance Genre
Nik Taylor (Speaker), Andy Cooper (Speaker)31 May 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Strange Ceremonies: The Laboratory, Library, and the Living Room; Creating Imaginative Spaces in Bizarre Magick
Nik Taylor (Speaker)7 Jul 2015
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
The "Fairy Goblet of Eden Hall" to "Hunting Mammoths in the Rain": Experiencing the Paraxial through Performance Magic and Mystery Entertainment
Nik Taylor (Speaker)23 Apr 2015
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
Interview for The Extraordinary Project Podcast
7/01/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Harry Potter Exhibition Comes To Huddersfield
25/11/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities