Subject: Text Festival - 12 June
An evening of poets and texts
Friday 12 June 2009 - 07:30pm
Bury Art Gallery, Moss St., Bury
And evening of experiment and challenge in the company of Japan-based Jesse
Glass, Nick Thurston, Sarah Tremlett and Judy Kendall.
Jesse Glass currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. His plays, poems,
performance works, and
fiction have appeared in a wide variety of journals and anthologies. In
addition to his work as Publisher of Ahadada Books, Jesse Glass is a
professor of Literature and History at Meikai University in Chiba, Japan.
His writing employs a breath-taking range of voices and styles to explore
the complexity beneath sensation and fact.
Nick Thurston is one of the
rising talents of conceptual poetry; his work demands both constant
attention and detachment simultaneously during the reading.
Sarah Tremlett is a media artist whose work integrates image and text
developed from fixed
lens observations of everyday life and construction the narrative of site.
Judy Kendall's first collection of poetry, 'The Drier The Brighter', with
Cinnamon Press in 2007 was nominated best first collection of 2007. Her
second collection 'Joy Change', poems of Japan, due out next year, draws on
her seven years of living in Japan. She has won several awards for her poems
and is particularly interested in space, gaps, silence and visual text.
> The Text Festival highlights innovative practice in text through a
> programme
> of exhibitions, public art commissions, films, publications and
> performances
> by internationally recognised practitioners and new talents in the field.
> In
> venues and sites across Bury in Manchester, UK, this major British
> festival
> develops the practice of language in art as poetry and poetry as language
> art, and challenges the boundaries between both.
>
>
>
> "The singularities that serve to rupture and renew normative discourse
> always emerge from the interstices (Foucault) - in other words, where
> nobody
> is looking. Almost certainly nobody was looking in the direction of Bury
> for
> the emergence of this significant project." - Art Monthly Magazine.
>
>
>
>
>
> Tony Trehy
>
> Text Festival Director
>
> Bury Art Gallery & Museum
>
> Moss St
>
> Bury
>
> BL9 ODR
>
> United Kingdom
>
>
>
> Tel: 0161 253 5869
>
>
>
> 4* Excellent Council
> Bury Council is now rated as a four star 'excellent' council by the Audit
> Commission.
> This rating recognises the council's commitment to providing first class
> services
> and providing good value for money.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Why not visit our website www.bury.gov.uk
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for
> compliance
> with our information security policy.
> The information contained in this e-mail and any files transmitted
> with it is for the intended recipient(s) alone. It may contain
> confidential information that is exempt from the disclosure under
> English law and may also be covered by legal,professional or other
> privilege.
> If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or
> take
> any
> action in reliance on it.
> If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by
> using
> the reply facility on your e-mail system.
> If this message is being transmitted over the Internet, be aware that it
> may
> be
> intercepted by third parties.
> As a public body, the Council may be required to disclose this e-mail or
> any
> response to it under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 unless the
> information
> in it is covered by one of the exemptions in the Act.
> Electronic service accepted only at [log in to unmask] and on fax
> number
> 0161 253 5119 .
> *************************************************************
>
>
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.59/2165 - Release Date: 06/09/09
05:53:00
|