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/