Sad news today that Birgir Andresson died yesterday. Each time I have visited Reykjavik arrangements have been made for us to meet but each time for one reason or another we missed each other. After my installation at Safn, his collaboration with Ragna Róbertsdóttir was the next show. He has a couple of works in the ICELAND show at Bury Art Gallery at the moment and we hoped to show him more fully in future years. It feels like a destiny unfulfilled.
www.i8.is/new/birgir.htm
Genius
Finally, I have finished ‘Genius’, my socialist riposte/rewriting of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos. I’ve blogged previously about my reasoning f...
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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... -
Don’t get me wrong, Byung-Chul Han’s ‘The Burnout Society’ is an insightful and trenchant analysis of “the systemic violence inhabiting ... -
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...