The second Text Festival was a celebration of international poetics and language in art. With a focus on performance and sound art, the event features exhibitions and commissions from some of the world's leading practitioners and some great new talents. Geof Huth is featured in an exhibition Signs of the Times with archival mataerial and museum objects and in a performance in a UK premier. Ron Silliman performed his premier event with other poets. He is noted as a major figure in international post-avant poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.