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The Text Festivals - the Book

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On occasion, I think, people interested in the ideas we have been working with in Bury have been stymied by my preference for the next project rather than the past project. But the Text Festival has been breaking new ground since 2005 so maybe inevitably it has developed a history that needs to be acknowledged. The Text Archive  developed by Holly Pester  through the AHRC funded partnership with Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre responded to  that imperative. And now hot off the Plymouth University Press , "The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry" . You can acquire this must-have publication from  here  or via Bury Art Museum shop (slightly cheaper). Tony Lopez has done a great job - not least getting me to do my bit for it. As he  wrote in his blog  the field of enquiry that the festival has opened up urgently needed focused secondary work which can inform and develop the ongoing dialogue.  Phil Davenport 's seminal anthology The Dark Would

The Dark Would Northern Launch

THE OTHER ROOM presents the Northern launch of THE DARK WOULD Anthology of Language Art, featuring: MIKE CHAVEZ-DAWSON LAWRENCE LANE JO LANGTON CAROLYN THOMPSON NIGEL WOOD DATE: 16TH OCTOBER 2013, 7PM VENUE: THE CASTLE HOTEL,  66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE FREE Mike Chavez-Dawson  is an artist-curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester, UK. He instigated and curated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and David Shrigley’s solo show entitled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse (2012–13). More recently his extraordinary proposal ‘Beyond the Medium, A Rake’s Dream…’ made the 100 favorite proposals for Artangel ‘OPEN’ 2013. He also judged (alongside Laurie Peake, Paul Stolper and Iain Andrews) and curated the neo:art prize 2013. Laurence Lane  is an artist and curator. In June 2000 he co-founded The International 3, a gallery space in city centre Manchester that developed out of the city’s artist-led activity. He has exhibited