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Networks and Interactions: IRCAM Paris

Thoughts around my online collaborative writing events. Also with Frédéric Bevilacqua, Samuel Bianchini, Marta Handenawer, Hugues Vinet. Hosted by IRCAM Reserach Centre, Paris. Free online access
Creative Research workshop starts now!

I’m super excited and eager for this workshop. Get an idea of it by listening to this very short audio intro. Places available! https://www.solitarysolidary.com/future-equipped
Practice Conversations

STARTS 9 Feb’22. 9 participants. 3 Months. Bring your project and challenges to this engaged small group process for practitioners of all kinds. Shape your ideas in a supportive and timely environment. Use language, make art in a world of changes. Explore models, strategies in dialogue. Incl. 2 individual sessions. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT UNTIL 11 JAN’22. Don’t hesitate: contact me here with any queries.

In Conversation with Erín Moure

Erin and I will be reflecting on our writing practices. Preceded by short readings. Info and registration here. Free.
Hosted and curated by Sandy Pool, U of Winnipeg. The Jake MacDonald International Writers Panel.

Practice Conversations

JUST LAUNCHED: STARTS 17 JUNE. Limited to 9 participants. Weekly Summer sessions. An open and engaged practice- and dialogue-led group work for practitioners from various disciplines and experience. More info and to book your place. Click here.
From A to B

Opening track of SONOSCURA project. Film sequence towards final Sonic Atlas performance, Autumn’21.
Inventions in Translation

Free event. Khairani Barokka, Caroline Bergvall, Sasha Dugdale, and James Womack, in conversation with Kathryn Maris, discuss inventions in translation. EB ticket here:

Alisoun Sings and hystoricism

“Bergvall’s historically multiple language creates a space where all that is transgressive, opaque, and mobile from the medieval and the contemporary meet”. Review by Toby Altman on Alisoun Sings & the trilogy. Chicago Review.
Issue 63:03/04 Winter/Spring 2020
Workshops

First two in a new series of short Writing Intensives:
1. Creative Use of Research.
2. Multilingual Resistance.
Small group work. Tickets still available: Get your place. Bursaries now fully allocated. More info here.
Night & Refuge

Delighted to be nominated at this established film poetry festival with our Night & Refuge film. I’ll post the festival link when it’s live. Film link here:
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.

“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.
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
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.

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.
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.

Night of Ideas

Invited to discuss my work as part of this all-nighter French discussion.
Pressing Clouds Passing Crowds

Text cycle written & spoken for guitarist Kim Myhr’s exquisite project. With Bozzini Quartet (str.)& Ingar Zach (perc). Hubro, Norway.

Poetry Among & In The Midst

Came across this article again archived as PDF. Around Cecilia Vicuña and my own performative “interart” practices. Denise Newman. World Literature Today.

Dawn performance draws crowd on roof of Gaelic College.

In collaboration with Gaelic speakers on the island, Bergvall devised a powerful and entrancing piece, which took the audience on a sonic journey as the sun rose above the mountains. The dawn chorus’ of birds and a passing rain shower added to a multifaceted work.

Dante’s Inferno & VIA

Lively and interesting podcast around Dante’s Inferno. Includes a short intro to Via towards the end. The Spouter-Inn. Hosted by Chris Piuma and Suzanne Conklin Akbari.
Together

7’07”. In French. W/ Anne Gillot, after making the piece at Espace 2/ RTS studios.

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