My disrupted internet access and the forthcoming house move delayed me putting this up. The conference of Festivals covered much of the ground one would expect. There was the usual sharing of recent project ideas and much discussion of destructive cuts to literature funding across the globe, with representatives farthest stretched to Chile in the West and the Ukraine in the East. A lot of Balkan Festivals too. The Text Festival was the only overtly non-literature festival. 
June 23, 2011
Overcasting (Databolism) - Noah Pred
As mentioned in the last post, it's always been the objective to make our context conducive for artists to create and think, that was ...
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Back in 2005, I launched the International Text Festival in Bury, Manchester. It's aim was to question, curate, display, distribute, ar...
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As already featured in the anniversary post on 19 March, the field of action of first festival was contextualised with the ‘Text’ (ISBN 0 9...
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Don’t get me wrong, Byung-Chul Han’s ‘The Burnout Society’ is an insightful and trenchant analysis of “the systemic violence inhabiting ...