Breathing Together

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Working across and among languages, media, and art forms, Caroline Bergvall’s writing takes form as published poetic works and performance, frequently of sound-driven projects. Her interests include multilingual poetics, queer feminist politics and issues of cultural belonging, commissioned and shown by such institutions as MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Antwerp, and won numerous awards.

Ragadawn is a multimedia performance that explores ideas of multi-lingualism, migration, lost or disappearing languages, and how language and place intersect. Ragadawn is performed with two live voices and recorded elements, outdoors, at dawn, which means the start and end times are location specific. It features song composed by Gavin Bryars, sung by Peyee Chen. Ragadawn premiered at the Festival de la Bâtie (Geneva) and at the Estuary Festival (Southend) in 2016.

You can find more work(s) by Caroline Bergvall at: http://carolinebergvall.com

Also on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/carolinebergvall/ohmyohmy

and Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/carolinebergvall/videos

Her publications include:

· Éclat, Sound & Language, 1996

· Fig: Goan Atom 2, Salt, 2005

· Middling English, John Hansard Gallery, 2010

· Meddle English: New and Selected Texts, Nightboat Books, 2011

· Drift, Nightboat Books, 2014

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