Professor Caroline Bergvall, PhD, Dartington College of Arts/University of Plymouth, 2000Global Professorial FellowEmail: c.bergvall@qmul.ac.ukWebsite: http://www.carolinebergvall.comProfileResearchPublicationsPublic EngagementPerformanceProfileI am a poet and an interdisciplinary artist with a special focus on multilingual and context-led projects as well as transhistoric approaches. I am the author of a trilogy of texts and performance projects Meddle English (2005), Drift (2011) and Alisoun Sings (2019). I have shown my performances and installations both in the UK and internationally and was awarded a Cholmondeley Award 2017 as well as being the first recipient of the art literary prize Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou Paris 2017. I am also an Art Practice Mentor and founder of the online Solitary to Solidary Arts Lab to support writers and artists. My appointment at QMUL consists in creating a research project that focuses on interdisciplinary conversation, modes of listening, and voice processing. It will build on a series of workshops and conversations with various kinds of participants around material exchange, vocal poetics, translocal trajectories, migratory birdsong, and creative systems of engagement. The workshops will take place indoors and outdoors. The research concludes in 2025 with a public and tourable performance event: a networked, processed and polyvocal conversation. Caroline Bergvall CV [PDF 223KB] Follow me on Instagram : carolinebergvall Follow me on my website: www.carolinebergvall.com Follow me on my You Tube channel: @carolinebergvallofficialResearchResearch Interests: Multilingual and Crosscultural Textualities Site-specific Performance and Context-led Reserach Interdisciplinary Conversation Local and Translocal modes of dialogue and exchange Sound, Voices, Place, Technology PublicationsSelected Books 2023 Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts and Transhistorical Methods, eds. C. Bergvall & J. Davies (Arc Humanities Press) – forthcoming - 2019 Alisoun Sings (Nightboat, NYC) 2014 Drift (Nightboat Books) (2nd printing 2016) 2011 Meddle English: New and Selected Texts (Nightboat Books: NY, Feb 2011) (2nd printing 2013) 2010 Middling English (JHG Publications: Southampton, 2010) 2005 Fig (Salt Books: Cambridge, 2005) 2001 Goan Atom: Doll (Kruspkaya Books: San Francisco, 2001) 1999 Jets-Poupee (Rempress: Cambridge, 1999) 1996 Eclat (Sound & Language: Lowestoft 1996) Selected Articles And Keynotes 2019 “Afterward”, Queenzenglish, ed. Kyoo Lee (Roof Books, NY) 2017 “Monolingualism is Killing Birds”, in Oh My Oh My, Southbank Centre (London) 2012 “Conceptual Twist” foreword, I’ll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writings by Women, co-edited w/ Laynie Brown, Teresa Carmody & Vanessa Place (Les Figues, LA). 2011 ‘Indiscreet G/hosts’, commissioned text for Imogen Stidworthy catalogue, Matt’s Gallery, Dec 2011 2009 “Pressure Points: Gendered and Tactical Authorship”, HOW 2 (vol. 3: 3, Nov 2009). “Cat in the Throat – on bilingual occupants” in Jacket #37 (Spring 2009); in Ord & Bild arts quaterly, Swedish transl. by A. Farrokzhad (Spring 2009) “Antekningar om den perfomativa textens politik” (What Do We Mean by Performance Writing?) in Swedish by Glänta eds, Glänta (4:08) 2007 “The Audio Culture of Writing”, online version Kritiker 7 (Dec 07); trans. into Swedish, in Kritiker 7 (Stockholm, Dec 07). “Georges Perec’s site-writings” in Noulipean Analects, eds. M. Viegener & C. Wertheim (Les Figues, LA, Spring) 2004 “Handwriting as a Form of Protest: Fiona Templeton's Cells of Release”, Jacket # 26 (October) 2003 “Body & Sign: Thoughts around the work of Aaron Williamson, Hannah Weiner, Henri Michaux”, Jacket#22 “A Form of Address: A Conversation with David Antin: David Antin & Charles Bernstein”, Jacket #22 (May03) “In the place of writing” in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, ed. Romana Huk (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) 2002 “Marks of Speech: on siting writing” in Additional Apparitions, Special issue The Paper, #3/4, eds. D.Kennedy & K.Tuma (March 2002) 2001 “Writing at the cross-roads of languages” in Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, eds. Steven Marks & Mark Wallace (University of Alabama Press, 2001), in Translating Nations, ed. Prem Poddar (Aarhus University Press, 2000) 1999 “Truncated/ Troncated: Mina Loy's misspellings” in Open Letter (Toronto, June 99)Public EngagementRadio 3 The Verb (April 2023), Aftenposten Review of concert with collaborators, Maijazz, Stavanger, Norwway (12 May)PerformanceSelected Performances & Installations 2023 Nattsong, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol – forthcoming – Pressing Clouds, Passing Crowds, text and concert with musicians, MaiJazz, Stavanger, Norway 2021 Nattsong, Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate/ Rivers Institute New Orleans 2020-21 Night & Refuge, Online Collaborative Writing Event, Estuary Festival / Oslo Int. Poetry Festival Sonoscura, Planet P, Berlin Int. Poetry / Café Oto label Shine in! Shine out! Digital piece, Edwin Morgan Celebrations, Poetry Libarry, London 2016-2019 Ragadawn sunrise performance: Atlas Arts, Isle of Skye, Scotland/ Marseille/ Galway City of Culture/Estuary festival Conference (after Sweeney), interdisicplinary convesration-perforamnce, Dublin International Literature Festival 2018-2019 Conference (After Attar) , interdisicplinary convesration: Whitstable Bienale/ ILFDublin 2017 Crop, John Hansard Gallery 2015-2017 Drift installation: Calliccon Fine Art (NY); Seaan Kelly (NY), Centre Art Contemporain (Geneva), Logan Art Centre (Chicago), Vite Kuben (Ålesund) 2017 Oh My Oh My (Pinktrombone, 21 January 2017), Documenta 14, Basel-Athens 2016 Together (voice work in 3 parts), MAMCO Museum (Geneva), Espace 2/RTS Swiss Radio 2014 Public Address, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden 2011 Ghost Cargo, sky banner. Writing Encounters/ Leeds City Gallery / Refugee Week 2010 Middling English, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK 2001-2020 Say Parsley installation: Spacex (Exeter), Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol), Liverpool Biennial,), Jewish Museum (Munich), MUKHA (Antwerp) Selected Group Shows, Performances & Festivals 2023 The Weight Of Words, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds – forthcoming Summer ‘23 2022 Earthsigns, Maritim Museet, Denmark 2019 La Voix Libérée, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Shibboleth, Jewish Museum, Munich Edge of the Sea, Kuben, Ålesund, Norway 2016 Retrogarde, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago 2015 By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY Reverse, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, Switzerland 2014 Fondation Vuitton, Paris, Whitney Biennial, NY Southbank Centre, London Samtidsmuseet, Oslo, Norway 2013 Actoral Festival, Marseille 2013-14 Word. Sound. Power, Tate Modern, London; Khoj Art Centre, New Delhi Non-Text, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, USA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University 2013 Afterlives of Gardens/ Kõndides mööda salateid, KUMU, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, 2012-2014 Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, group show, Denver/Toronto/Michigan Visual Poetics, South Bank Centre, London, 12 Feb – 5 May.
