Collective Voicing (artist talk with sound work)

SOUND/TEXT

SPEAKER: CAROLINE BERGVALL, ARTIST

Caroline Bergvall is a writer, artist, and performer who works across art forms, media and languages. The recipient of many international commissions, she is a noted exponent of writing and performance methods adapted to contemporary audiovisual and contextual situations, as well as multilingual identities and translocal exchange.

Awarded a Cholmondeley Award for her poetic production (UK, 2017). First recipient of the art literary prize Prix Littéraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017). Awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship, Italy (2019).

Projects alternate between books and printed matter, collaborative performances, site-specific installations and soundworks. Her work frequently develops through exploring material traces, literary documents, historical languages, hidden or forgotten knowledges. Her sparse textual, spatial and audio works often expose hidden or difficult historical/political events.

As a scholar and professor, she has taught in the UK, Europe and the US both in art schools and universities. Currently Visiting Professor, Kings College London (2017-2020). Instrumental in setting up the interdisciplinary Performance Writing programme at Dartington College of Arts, Director (1995-2000) and has been co-chair in Writing at Bard College (NY, 2004-2007). Mellon Fellow in Collaborative Arts (w/ Jen Scappettone & Judd Morrissey), University of Chicago (2016). Writer-in-Residence, Whitechapel Gallery (2014). Judith E. Wilson Fellowship, Cambridge University (2013-14). AHRC Fellow in the Performing Arts (2007-2010). Visiting Faculty, Summer Writing Program, Naropa Institute (Boulder, CO).

Her performances and installations have been presented at MUCEM (Marseille); Jewish Museum (Munich), Tate Modern (London), Serpentine Gallery (London), Louisiana Museum (Copenhagen), Khoj Art Centre (New Delhi), Southbank Centre (London); MACBA (Barcelona); Samtidsmuseet (Oslo); Luma Foundation (Zurich); MAMCO Museum of Contemporary Art (Geneva); MCA (Denver), MOMA (NY), Whitney Biennial (NY); Callicoon Fine Arts, (NYC, 2015), and elsewhere.

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