SPECIAL FEATURE:
VIDEO, AUDIO, IMAGE, AND TEXT
EXCERPTS FROM DRIFT
BY CAROLINE BERGVALL
The Rusty Toque | Special Feature | Video, Audio, Image, and Text| May 30, 2014
The Rusty Toque is pleased to present video, audio, image, and text excerpts from Caroline Bergvall's recently published collection Drift (Nightboat Books, 2014). The video work "Ottar" comes from the performance version of Drift, and "Noping" was commissioned by Triple Canopy for the exhibition Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. |
OTTAR
Excerpt from Caroline Bergvall's Drift performance. A live piece for solo voice (C Bergvall), percussion (Ingar Zach) and 3D visual text (Thomas Köppel). Inspired by the language and themes of the Seafarer, an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem from the 10th century. A contemporary meditation on migrancy, exiles and sea-travel. 2x min excerpt.
NOPING
“Noping” was produced in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, as part of Triple Canopy’s contribution to the exhibition Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson and on view from October 12, 2012, to February 3, 2013. “Noping” was also published as part of Triple Canopy’s Internet as Material project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Audio recording by Graham Williams.
FROM DRIFT
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Drift (Nightboat Books, 2014)
Essays, Intergenre, Poetry
Caroline Bergvall
Publisher's Description:
A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer
Caroline Bergvall’s Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today’s sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, “Drift,” which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both ancient and contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the plight and losses of wanderers across the waters in this haunting new book. Drift is the second of Bergvall’s explorations of historical English language. The text sequences combine with drawings, maps, macro-photos to track these depths.
Essays, Intergenre, Poetry
Caroline Bergvall
Publisher's Description:
A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer
Caroline Bergvall’s Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today’s sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, “Drift,” which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both ancient and contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the plight and losses of wanderers across the waters in this haunting new book. Drift is the second of Bergvall’s explorations of historical English language. The text sequences combine with drawings, maps, macro-photos to track these depths.
Caroline Bergvall
CAROLINE BERGVALL is a writer of French-Norwegian origins based in London and Geneva. She works across artforms, media and languages; her projects alternate between books, audio pieces, collaborative performances and language installations. Her publications include Drift, Meddle English: New and Selected Texts, and Fig as well as a DVD of earlier installations Ghost Pieces: five language-based installations (2010). Recent group shows/festivals: Fundacio Tapiès (Barcelona), Theatre du Grütli (Geneva), The Serpentine Gallery (London), MOMA (NY), DIA Arts Foundation (NY), and Tate Modern (London). Recently completed a performance version of Drift, which will tour Europe in 2014-2105. Director of the Performance Writing program at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000), co-Chair MFA in Writing, Bard College (2005-2007), and recent guest faculty at Naropa University. The Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry and Drama at the University of Cambridge (2012-2013).
