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Last updated 18th April 2024
Nik Taylor is Director of Teaching and Learning for The School of Arts and Humanties at the University of Huddersfield 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 has just completed a research project entitled, ‘Performing Real Magic(K): The Conjurer and Audience in Bizarre Magick’. He is currently writing a monograph examining the cultural history of performance magic.
As a performer, Nik specialises in Bizarre Magick, Sideshow, Séance and Divination. Nik co-curates Mr Punch’s Cabinet of Curiosities a dark museum of weird and haunted artefacts, and is currently working on a short film capturing the Victorian Parlour Séance. 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.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Nik Taylor (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Nik Taylor (Participant) & Ashton Carter (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Ben Spatz (Organiser), Ben Young (Participant), Sara Nesteruk (Participant), Jenna Collins (Participant), Nik Taylor (Participant) & Heshen Xie (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Nik Taylor (Invited speaker) & Reece Shearsmith (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Nik Taylor (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
3/09/24
1 Media contribution
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24/09/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
7/01/20
1 Media contribution
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25/11/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities