Caroline Bergvall
A conceptual introduction:
1. Exactly! We can also be used as relics because of the body parts.
2. Even for a limited period of time, devising specific rules to regulate one's behaviour demands great effort of concentration as well as a capacity for physical exertion of a kind which can threaten, or indeed collapse, a sense of personal safety.
3. In a way, it's about timeliness rather than timelessness.
4. How much of the hand and how much of writing is there in the handwriting?
5. The notion of writing in one language yet retaining strong cultural roots in another is one way of actively responding to the sense of cultural doubling-up which I have always experienced. This split or double (depending on your point of view) condition is shared by a great number of people today and it is affecting the ways in which bilingual or bicultural writers are develolping their works.
6. What is it I need to imagine? The shape of somatised writing?
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Bio:
Caroline Bergvall is a poet and conceptual writer based in London. Her latest collection of texts and performance pieces is FIG (Salt, 2005). She has developed audioworks, visual textwork, net-based pieces, live readings and sited performances, both in Europe and in North America. Her work is widely available online.
Collaborations include the sound-text installation Say: “Parsley” (Liverpool Biennial, 2004), Lidl Suga (Bury Text Festival, 2004), Voice-Fold-Feed-Wash-Pass (for COMA festival, 2008). She recently presented work at MOMA (NY, 2007) as part of their Modern Poets series. Her critical work is concerned with mixed-media writings and multilingual poetics. Director of Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000); Co-Chair of the MFA Writing Faculty, Bard College (2004-2007). She is the recipient of an AHRC Arts Fellowship in Britain (2007-2010). website.Video:
- Caroline Bergvall reading with Cole Swensen and Christian Bök
- Panel discussion with featured poets, moderated by Tenney Nathanson
- Download the PowerPoint file that Caroline Bergvall references in the panel discussion
- Download the mp3 recording of Caroline Bergvall's breakout section: Forms of Social Engagement
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Conceptual Poetry and Its Others Symposium is made possible by grants from the Arizona Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Poets & Writers. We are also grateful for Symposium support from the Arizona Inn; College of Humanities; Book Stop Used Books, and Friends of the Poetry Center, especially Helen S. Schaefer.