`Nothing is forbidden, for there are always transgressions," wrote George Bataille, thus inspiring Jamshid Mirfenderesky to inspire 18 artists to contest the meaning of the written word as celebrated in the Crescent's Between the Lines Easter Literary Festival.
But the intent has been mightier than the execution. For though illustration and translation of selected stanzas was expressly forbidden, this is expressly what occurs.
Colin McGookian's Magic Psalter from Ginsberg's Magic Psalm is but a banner of the artist's familiar arcane icons and Kathy Herbert's interpretation of Jenny Joseph's populist Warning just a joy of frumptious purple.
Flags and emblems are unadventurous common retorts to the works of Northern poets, as are wash-overlaid maladjusted computer printouts.
Until April 26th