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Caroline BergvallFig(Goan Atom 2) |
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Biographical note: Caroline Bergvall was born in 1962 of French-Norwegian nationalities and has been based in England since 1989. She is widely published and her text pieces and collaborations have been produced internationally. Her work plays around with perception through language games, sexual ecstasies, multilingual speech, sited texts and ephemeral gestures. She is Research Fellow in Performance Writing at Dartington College and co-chair in Writing, Bard College.
BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844710928
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description/annotation: 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.
Main description: FIG is the second installment of the ongoing series Goan Atom. It is a colllection of 12 poetic pieces written between 1996 and 2004. They have each previously been produced as off-page collaborations or text-installations. This range of artistic and poetic contexts and the compositional processes that result from these is a crucial aspect of the goanatom poetics represented in FIG. Each piece has been carefully rethought and twelve short prefatory notes have been written and developed especially for the book. They function as an additional textual layer, a poetic dimension in their own right. The pieces in FIG explore the connections between the materialities of written or inscriptive language and the materialities of human physicality. Language inscribed in the speaking, listening, writing body. This includes the pursuit of physical and sexual imaginaries, bilingual and translative poetics, time-led and context-specific writings, textual and spoken patterns of misrecognition. It is one of the premises of FIG that the poetic texts are written with an accent and with body. The book’s drawings and photographic material add to the traffic between verbal and visual textualities.
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Unpublished endorsement : This collection opens up the sweep of Caroline Bergvall’s intertwining of disciplines, as well as zooming in to luminous seams of language where the microscope reveals universes. From a folding-in of language, the performed-in-a-body, ripened to bursting, sows performance in attention’s body. Cultures in a morpheme, narratives in a fract, history in a sign, things in a life, the mind in a woman, in print. Writing’s polygendering, braiding authorship, layering thought. Jouir de l’influence. Politics of the tongue. Honest, acute, visceral, ludic, funny. Arising too in the social, the contextualized projects return the gift. Both seducing forward as sound, and details compelling “wait”. Resaid. Rehear it. Relived. Replay. Reread and reread it. Fiona Templeton
Unpublished endorsement : Listen to the glissade, as meaning slides into sound, sound into sense, sense to action. Working at the borders of poetry, installation, performance, and translation, Caroline Bergvall’s Fig is conceptually astute and structurally shimmering. From figuration (imagine) to figure (articulate) to fig (object): a pleasure for eye, ear, mind. Charles Bernstein
Review quote: What I admire about Bergvall’s work is its absolute originality, it's structural articulations. In this sense, Bergvall offers an exciting direction for feminist poetics, moving as it does out of the speculative and reflective into the active and shapely, incorporating a performative element that complicates our understanding of “meta-text”. Lemonhound |
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