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The Text Festival 2011, Opening Performances

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The Other Room was asked to film the opening performances of 2011’s international Text Festival. This represents less than a quarter of the events took place.

On Saturday 30th April The third international Text Festival opened. The montage at the beginning shows a small percentage of the art on display in three galleries around Bury, Manchester. There are performances here by Marco Giovenale, Helen White & Moniek Darge, Marton Koppany, Helmet Lemke & Hans Specht and Sarah Sanders. The Lemke/Specht performance was a durational piece of four hours. What is captured here is only a small portion of that fabulous piece.

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Text Festival 2011 begins this Saturday

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The Text Festival weekend launches in Bury on Saturday morning – details of the exhibitions attached – opening performances by

11.00 am Marco Giovenale (from Italy)

11.20 Helen White and Moniek Darge (from Belgium)

11.45 Márton Koppány (from Hungary)

Sarah Sanders will do a spontaneous performance sometime in the morning (when the moment is right)

Helmut Lemke and Hans Specht will perform a durational conversational artwork from about 11.15 am for 4 hours.

LINK to rest of programme

Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinchback

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Do not miss this –

Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinchback
Category: Launch
Profile: Castlefield Gallery
Opening hours: (For Castlefield Gallery) Wednesday – Sunday. 1 – 6 pm
Event Date: 18:00 – 20:00 Thursday, 26th Nov 2009
Organisation: Castlefield Gallery
Venue: Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester, M15 4GB.
Contact: Castlefield Gallery
Email: info@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Website: http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Description: Performance and CD Launch of Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinch

fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.

This CD comes in a 5inch tape reel box, including 5 prints made in conjunction with the recordings. http://www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk

FREE EVENT, BOOKING REQUIRED To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places.