("Fig" is the second installment of "Goan Atom" and contin...)
"Fig" is the second installment of "Goan Atom" and continues its exploration of poetic practice registered through physical uptake. Delighting in the corporeal use of language, these pieces explore the surface tensions of our encounters with the processes of recognition. Each piece has previously been initiated as part of a performance work or collaborative installation and short prefatory notes reflect on these different writing practices.
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She graduated from the Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, from University of Warwick, and from Plymouth University.
She was Director of Performance Writing at Darlington College of Arts, from 1994 to 2000. She taught at Cardiff University and Bard College. Bergvall has developed audio texts and collaborative performances with sound artists in Europe and North America.
Her critical work is largely concerned with emerging forms of writing, plurilingual poetry, and mixed media writing practices, also Performance Writing.
Her work often explores archaic versions of languages. A review of 2011"s Meddle English: New and Selected Texts in The Brooklyn Rail noted that her essay "Middling English" urges readers and writers working with English to "excavate its fractured and fractious history."
She wrote FIG (Goan Atom 2), poetic and performance pieces (Salt Books, 2005).
Installations with Ciaran Maher include Lidl Suga for TEXT Festival (2005) and Say: "Parsley" at Liverpool Biennial (2004). Her installation Drift appeared at New York City"s Callicoon Fine Arts in 2015.
Bergvall"s work has also been shown at Dia Art Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, the Serpentine Galleries, Tate Modern, and the Hammer Museum.
("Fig" is the second installment of "Goan Atom" and contin...)