The week’s theme is “Wild Water”. I play pieces from Nattsong and describe my current process with this work. Also on the prog: poets Ruth padel w composer Vik Sharma, & William Burns.
The threshold spaces where Ragadawn is performed are not only points of conflict but of fluidity; where cultures blend, languages overlap. Places where understanding and solidarity become possible
The Wire
Some news and events.
Nattsong: C. Bergvall in Conversation w/ Sukhdev Sandhu & Áine O’Brien
Join me for a very special conversation with writer SUKHDEV SANDHU and curator ÁINE O’BRIEN to share some of the themese of my latest performance Nattsong and celebrate the culmination of my Sonic Atlas cycle of works. Q&A with the audience. Info + booking on the link. £5/or Pay what you can
Ecopoetics, Intermediality, and the Language of C. Bergvall
By Martin Schauss. in Alluvium: Literature Culture and the Environment. Special Issue Wold Literature and the alter/native, vol. 9, No. 5 (2021)
Summer ’21 Newsletter: ShelTer & Alisoun Sings
I hope you’ve been having a joyful Summer this year…
Site-Specific Studio @ The Poetry School
It’ll be fun to run this course with London’s Poetry School this Summer! Offline and onsite writing. Taught asynchronously. Sold out.
From A to B
Opening track of SONOSCURA project. Film sequence towards final Sonic Atlas performance, Autumn’21.
March Newsletter: Workshops, Streams and Live Events
Hello to all friends, dear ones, in life and spirit, and to all new subscribers!…
New Year, New Workshops – January Newsletter
Hello Friends – I needed to get past the 20th Jan to be…
Night & Refuge 2
Still availble to view in full: Writing live across languages with these great poets/performers:
Edwin Torres, Jessie Kleeman, Mandla Rae, Erin Moure, Gunnar Waerness.
3 hours.
Caroline Bergvall’s Poetics of Disorientation
“Poetry is an action, an activity and pursuit, moving through space and time with intention.” Essay by Rebecca Teich. The Poetry Project, #260 Spring 2020.
SONOSCURA
TEXT IMAGE SOUND – A response to the inner and outer upheavals of the global COVID-19 lockdown. Premiere: Berlin Poesie Festival 9 June 2020. A Sonic Atlas Project.
“Pilgrimming” – the text
Alisoun on collective activision. The Brooklyn Rail. Thanks to Anselm Berrigan.
Alisouns Sings – Part 1 – “Pilgrimming”
Part 1 Digital Residency Poets House, NY. Ships and Song. 9 mins.
“Wat if I present as a crowd”
Reading & Conversation around Alisoun Sings. Hosted by Susan Rudy. Queer Poetics Research. Queen Mary University, London. Still viewable here via FB.
Going on a Recky for Ragadawn: Galway
Peripatetic Radio Interview with Luke Clancy. Culture File RTÉ.
Scoping a site for Ragadawn Galway2020. 8mins.
An Evolution of Style in 3 Poets
A great read of Alisoun Sings by Marc Scroggins. Also looks at Erica Hunt and John Matthias. HYPERALLERGIC.
Editor’s Choice: Alisoun Sings
Just up: “Dame” Opening sections. Thanks to Poetry Daily & Susan Tichy for this feature.
Cover Art: Reading Experimental Writing
From Lines. A 16 drawings series for my book DRIFT, 2015. Cover of essays by poets and scholars about poets’ practices. Chapter on my work by Susan Rudy. Ed. Georgina Colby. Edinburgh UP
Terms of Exchange
In and around Alisoun Sings with poet and translator Greg Nissan. BOMB Magazine
Cat in the Throat: CB’s Plurilingual Bodies
Natalie Camerlynck. Transnational Literature Vol. 8 no. 1, November 2015. Now available as PDF here.
Alisoun Sings, livestream
The book is out today! readings + conversation with wonderful contemporary medievalists Clare Lees and Josh Davies, Kings College London.
The Contemporary Medieval in Practice
Wonderful accessible collection. The two scholar-collaborators use my work, alongside Roni Horn and others to make their argument. UCL Press Open access.
The Language of Alisoun
From an expansively hosted conversation with Sukhdev Sandhu & Stephen Motika, NYU. Edited transcript: “The Language of Alisoun”, Nightboat Blog.
Release Date
Nightboat Books. Tagged a Must-Read-Poetry on its release in The Millions.
SHIBBOLETH: The Border Crossings of Caroline Bergvall, Performance Writing, and Iterative Poetics
By Jacob Edmond in his monograph: Make it the Same: Poetry in Age of Global Media also feat. the works of Kamau Brathwaite, Dmitri Prigov, Yang Lian, John Cayley, Christian Bok, NourbeSe Philip, Tan Lin, ao. Columbia UPress.
Language Station Event: Ladino & Galician
A really special opportunity to discover and discuss these two rich and ancient languages with contemporary practitioners! Singer Monica Acosta – poet Alba Cid – scholar Julian Weiss- poet/translator Erin Moure (live link). Book here.
CALL FOR DIGITAL LIGHT ARTIST / DESIGNER FOR PERFORMANCE
We are looking for an innovative and collaborative digital artist / light designer to join…
Conference (after Attar) – film
Ahead of Dublin’s Conference-performance, take a look at last year’s wonderful occasion.
Dartington Music Summer School
Exciting context for a writing workshop. Some bursaries. Join us!
Summer Writing Program: Naropa
Great to again get to take part in this seminal place.
THE LOST ONES
Text and voice track for Ingar Zach’s haunting composition. With Kim Myhr (guitar), Bozzini Quartet (str.). CD just out: “Floating Layer Cake”. Sofa, Norway.
Pressing Clouds Passing Crowds
Text cycle written & spoken for guitarist Kim Myhr’s exquisite project. With Bozzini Quartet (str.)& Ingar Zach (perc). Hubro, Norway.
Women who invite Collaboration: CB, Erin Moure , et al
Essay, Susan Rudy, in Canadian Women Writers: Connecting Texts and Generations. Eds. Marie Carrière & Pat Demers. Alberta UP. Here as PDF.
Aine McMurtry: Sea Journeys to Fortress Europe
Sea Journeys to Fortress Europe: Lyric Deterritorializations in Texts by Caroline Bergvall and José F.A. Oliver
Open Call: Live Electronic Musician / Sound Designer
Deadline for Applications: NOW CLOSED
Traduire Collectif: on l’Anglais Mêlé, et al
Propositions Théoriques autour d’Experiences de Traduire Collectif. Great philosophical essay on practices of collective translation. PDF.
Poetry as a Performance
5’19”. Reading & interview 2016, Louisiana Museum, Denmark. Filmed by Kasper Bech Dyg.
Jonathan Jones: Whistable Biennale Review.
The most ambitious meditation on the way people, birds and words live in perpetual migration…
SIX PILLARS on Ragadawn
30mins. Fari Bradley, Resonance FM. Atmos sonic mix & ntrview.
Infra-materiality and Opaque Drifting
Illustrated essay of mine exploring issues of witnessing in Drift. Feat. in beautifully produced and eclectic anthology by group of editors.
Magnétique
20′. With Yves Bron, RTS. In French. On multilingualism, Drift, Ragadawn. Geneva 2016.
Together
7’07”. In French. W/ Anne Gillot, after making the piece at Espace 2/ RTS studios.
Mudd UP! DJ Rupture
60′. Tracks of my choice on DJ Rupture’s amazing show. w Pop-up Player.
In conversation with Stephen Foster
John Hansard Gallery, 2010, around Middling English
Theres a muscularity to the text
12’33”. Recorded/edited by Joan Schuman for her sonic mag Earlid Magazine
Seeing through languages
6 mins. Filmed and edited by Kasper Bech Dyg, Louisiania Museum Channel
The surprise of love and writing
With composer Rozalie Hirs, Jacket 2 partial transcript
