“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.
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.
Solitary to Solidary: a Writing Experiment: 2-part workshop
Register for this workshop in shared writing and interlingual exchanges taking place over two evenings – Wednesday 22 July and Wednesday 29 July! Limited places.
SONOSCURA
An immersive response to the inner and outer upheavals of the global COVID-19 lockdown. Premiere: Berlin Poesie Festival 9 June 2020. A Sonic Atlas Project.
Night & Refuge: Live Collaborative Writing
5 voices, 3 hours, 1 poem. Writing online & through the night with poets Vahni Capildeo, Leo Boix, Will Harris and Nisha Ramayaa. Hosted by Versopolis, Counterpoints Arts, Cement Fields.
“Pilgrimming” – the text
Alisoun on collective activision. The Brooklyn Rail. Thanks to Anselm Berrigan.
Alisoun Sings – Part 2: Singing, Chaucer, Transhistoric English
Part 2 Digital Residency @Poets House. On the ballad, Chaucer, reclaimed English. 30 mins Talk w/ Illustrations, and Conversation with the wonderful Paolo Javier. Youtube.
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.
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.
Say Parsley, Munich
Special iteration for group show, Jewish Museum, Munich. New soundwork, wall-piece, hanging alphabet.
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.
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.
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.
Festival Ritournelles
Lecture à plusieurs voix: L’Anglais Mêlé avec V. Broqua, A.Lang, A.Portugal. Bordeaux.
Pressing Clouds Passing Crowds
Kim Myhr album / C Bergvall texts & voice / and others lots of great…
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 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.
The Black Pages, the White Script, the Maps, the Constellations
Interviewed by Andy Fitch, BLARB, Los Angeles Review of Books
Poetry as a Performance
5’19”. Reading & interview 2016, Louisiana Museum, Denmark. Filmed by Kasper Bech Dyg.
Conference (after Attar)
review, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
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.
A polyphonic Dawn Chorus
W/ Nancy Groves. Guardian Interview. Ragadawn 2016, Brexit.
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.
Alisoun Sings
Nightboat Books, NY
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.
An Interview with Caroline Bergvall
with literary scholar Linda Kinnahan, Contemporary Women’s Writing, 5: 3. Extensive interview and introduction.
Magnétique
20′. With Yves Bron, RTS. In French. On multilingualism, Drift, Ragadawn. Geneva 2016.
Traverser les Langues
Cecile Dalla Torre. In French. In Swiss daily Le Courrier de Genève.
In Conversation
w/ Susan Rudy. Writing/Installing. Jacket2 (no.1)
Propelled to the Edges of a Language’s Freedom, and to the Depths of Its Collective Traumas
Eva Heisler, Asymptote Journal
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
A conversation with Caroline Bergvall
With literary feminist scholar Susan Rudy, Jacket 2. Around writing and interdisciplinarity.
Now that’s what I’d call morphing
Building a Queer Architecture in Caroline Bergvall’s Éclat, Sophie Robinson, HOW 2. Special feature.
