Caroline Bergvall

texts

from About Face

recent publications

Her work as a poet includes the books:

Eclat (Sound & Language, 1996)
Jets-Poupée (RemPress, 1999)
Goan Atom, 1 (Kruspkaya, 2001)
Eclat in collaboration with designer Marit Muenzberg (ububooks, 2004)
Fig: Goan Atom 2 (Salt Publishing, 2005)
"FUSES (after Carolee Schneeman)" has been published in Brooklyn Rail, June 2005.

She has contributed to a number of anthologies and has performed her texts widely.

Her mixed-arts performance and installation projects are frequently done in collaboration with other artists:

Ambient Fish (Hull Time Based Art, 1999)
About Face (Berlin 2000 & Bard College NY 2001)
Say Parsley (Exeter 2001)
Felt (tEXt 2002).

recent articles on her work

"Speaking in Tongues" John Stammers interviews Caroline Bergvall (Magma 15, 1999)

Drew Milne, "A Veritable Dollmine" (Jacket, 2000)

cris cheek, "Caroline Bergvall: Writing and Reading the Sites of Performance" (2003)

Marjorie Perloff, "The Procedural Poetics of Christian Bok and Caroline Bergvall" (Jacket, 2003)

Nicky Marsh, "Goan Atom" (How2, Vol.2 No.2, 2004)

Sina Queyras "The Fruits of Risk" (Brooklyn Rail, May 2006)

Piers Hugill, "Love & Grammar: Caroline Bergvall's Fig" (Jacket, 2006)

websites

She has a homepage at the Electronic Poetry Centre, SUNY Buffalo.

PennSound has interviews and readings.

biographical note

Caroline Bergvall (b. 1962) is of French-Norwegian nationalities and has been based in England since 1989.

Her critical and poetic work are increasingly concerned with plurilingual writing and sited textwork. She was the Director of Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts (1994-2000). She is currently Associate Fellow in Performance Writing at Dartington College.

contact

13F Chadwell Street
London EC1R 1XD

last updated November 7, 2006

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