Caroline Bergvall Caroline Bergvall

RAGADAWN (2015-2019) – outdoor sunrise performance
EVENING WORK (2017-2019) – evening concert-performance
LANGUAGE STATIONS (2016 -2020) – research network, recorded local and translocal conversations

Sonic Atlas is the umbrella title for a series of multilingual performance works by writer and vocal performer Caroline Bergvall. These feature vocal chorus, field recordings and song sequences developed in collaboration with composer, Gavin Bryars and a developing team of musicians, artists and poets based across Europe. Recorded conversations between scholars, writers, singers and speakers of various minoritarian languages form the basis of a treated electronic chorus within the performances, and ongoing contact in the form of discussions, workshops, etc. Each performance is carefully conceived and sited in partnership with its host venue.

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“Watching this in performance, the testimony is almost overwhelming”.

Sophie Mayer The F-Word

Poet Caroline Bergvall’s Drift is a multi-millenniumal mashup of sea stories

Alice Saville Exeunt magazine

Media

“Drift marks a significant ethical engagement for poetry in these isles”

Cherry Smyth Art Monthly

A book as filled with ghosts as with beauty, as driven by intellec

Publishers Weekly Book Review

Drawings

Exhibitions

Gru Transtheatre
Geneva, 2012. UK Premiere: Shorelines Festival. METAL, 8 nov 2013. On tour Autmun 2014.

Shorelines Festival
UK Premiere: METAL, 8 nov 2013.

On tour
Autmun 2014.

Reviews

Greg Bem: Drift review
July 2015
Reviewed in RainTaxi, Summer 2015

Clara Sankey: Drift Review
Feb 2015
This sense of directionlessness – the Vikings called it hafvilla: not knowing where one is on the sea – is the singular thread that ties the book together. Review featuring scans of some of the drawings in great new mag The Improbable.

Tim Freeborn: Shake that Microtone: Caroline Bergvall’s Drift
Nov’14
Essay just up as a special feature in Rusty Toque, Nov’14 issue

David Kaufmann: Drift book review in Asymptote
Oct 2014
“Caroline Bergvall’s latest book, Drift, is haunted by the loss of the thorn, the yogh, and Anglo-Saxon generally”.

Alice Saville: Drift at the Forge, London, Exeunt magazine
Oct 14
“Poet Caroline Bergvall’s Drift is a multi-millenniumal mashup of sea stories”.

Cherry Smyth: DRIFT review in Art Monthly – PDF – 
Oct 14
“Drift marks a significant ethical engagement for poetry in these isles”. Cherry Smyth reviews the performance and the book for Art Monthly, Oct 14

Sophie Mayer: Drift at the Southbank Centre: All at Sea
26 Aug 2014
“Watching this in performance, the testimony is almost overwhelming”. Sophie Mayer reviews DRIFT live at the Purcell Room and the book. For The F-Word.

Sarah Dawson: Drift at the Southbank Centre: I went to see
19 July 2014
I went to see Drift by Caroline Bergvall last Thursday. review of DRIFT live at the Purcell Room.

Steve Mentz: Caroline Bergvall’s Drift 
2 June 2014
Gorgeous, intricate, impassioned writing. A review of the book and a reader’s report w/ other links

Publishers Weekly: Book review: Drift* – PDF – 
14 May 2014
A book as filled with ghosts as with beauty, as driven by intellect as by wanderlust -PDF-

Caroline Bergvall