Text Festival, 2011

Welcome to the Text Festival.

The Text Festival in Bury is an internationally recognised event investigating contemporary language art (poetry, text art, sound and media text, live art). Opening on 29 April 2011, the next Festival will be its third manifestation and run into July.

Against the background of global stylistic multiplicity, the use of language spans many artforms and may even be a unifying field of enquiry, a new definition and a new field of international linguistic art practice and dialogue. The Bury Festival is the leading focus of language in 21st Century art.

The Festival specialises in experiments, in new experiences, in performances and exhibitions that mix artforms in ground-breaking combinations that challenge traditional language art boundaries and offer artists a forum for dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Events:

The opening: 

http://www.textfestival.com/events/events.php?eid=35

Ron Silliman (USA), Satu Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko (FIN), and Phil Minton's Bury Feral Choir:

http://www.textfestival.com/events/events.php?eid=36

Sound and Dark:

http://www.textfestival.com/events/events.php?eid=37

MERZTEXTE:
http://www.textfestival.com/events/events.php?eid=38

Sound and Dark (2):
http://www.textfestival.com/events/events.php?eid=39

Exhibitions:

http://www.textfestival.com/exhibitions/

Publications:

http://www.textfestival.com/publications/

Translating (in) Europe – Naples, Festival 22-29 November 2010

http://www.estranslation.net/en/index.php?id_site=4

SPT conference on Aggression

Last weekend was the SPT conference on Aggression in San Francisco and Oakland, California, USA.


The blog has a lot of "exhibits" in it that are worth reading.

Among the post-conference postings of talks (or talks that were posted pre-conference and then read at the conference) that I've found so far include...


Jasper Bernes's "The Liberalizing Ideology of the Internet".

Erika Staiti's "Race & Gender" archival project.

Craig Perez's "My Michael Magee and the Frontier of Democratic Symbolic Action"

Laura Moriarty's "Re Vision: Outlaws, Lone Wolves and Made Poets: Bay Area Poetics from the 70s to the Present". And then some out takes here.

Juliana Spahr's here.

Still hoping to find Rob Halpern's, Robin Tremblay-McGaw's, Tyrone Williams's, and Bhanu Kapil's sometime soon.

Audio archive supposed to be at a voice boxeventually.

"the utopian library" -- a letter from Vittore Baroni

ARTIST'S BOOKS – ALTERED BOOKS – IMPOSSIBLE BOOKS

ANTI-BOOKS – REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS – IMAGINARY BOOKS

THE UTOPIAN LIBRARY

In July-August 2008 the BAU Cultural Association (www.bauprogetto.it)
will organize in Viareggio a multimedia festival titled THE PLACES OF
UTOPIA, that will include art shows and installations, performances,
readings, workshops, conferences and other events revolving around the
theme of UTOPIA.

As part of this festival, I will coordinate THE UTOPIAN LIBRARY, a
reading room where the visitors will be able to look through a
collection of international artists' books culled from the E.O.N.
archives plus books expressly submitted. The books will be on display
in shelves and over tables, with the possibility of a direct, hands on
fruition.

You are welcomed to CONTRIBUTE A BOOK to the UTOPIAN LIBRARY, either
an original work related to the utopian theme, or a book you have done
in the past that you think will fit the project. An illustrated
catalogue of the books received will be sent to all the participants
(Arte Postale! magazine n. 95). Your book will not be returned, but at
the end of the festival will become part of the E.O.N. archive.

The size, medium and technique for the books is FREE.

The material is not restricted to paper, but please take into
consideration the hands on approach.

Deadline: all the books should arrive BEFORE JULY 15, 2008.

Mail to:

Vittore Baroni, via C. Battisti 339, 55049 Viareggio (LU), Italy

vittorebaroni [at] alice [dot] it

Thanks in advance for your participation

Feel free to circulate this invite

Vittore Baroni

poésie / nuit, 4-15 mars, Lyon

la poésie/nuit, une manifestation consacrée à la poésie, à l’écrit et à la performance contemporaine, à Lyon, France, présentée dans le cadre de la manifestation « le Printemps des Poètes ».

L’édition 2008 se tiendra du 4 au 15 mars 2008.

Vous trouverez sur ce site le programme des différents événements, et bientôt les biographies des poètes invités ainsi que toutes les infos pratiques de cette prochaine édition.

Vous pouvez également télécharger la plaquette de présentation de la manifestation ici (pdf, 2.5 Mb).