Interview with nprs terry gross, covering the legendary phonographers life including the time spent in the american south with his father, john, in the 30s and 40s, recording thousands of songs for the library of congress archive of american folk song. Internationally renowned writer and performer caroline bergvall teams up with the continued. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading paj 107 may 2014 performance drawings paj. Including computers in acts of translation brings critical attention to how symbiotically we collaborate with those computerized machines in our daily acts of writing and reading. Her critical and poetic work are increasingly concerned with plurilingual writing. Tracy grinnell, michelle ellsworth, and caroline bergvall resulting in early drafts of the postobsolete book and riding sidesaddle. Created as a response to bryon gysin i am that i am. In the twelve years since its inception, pennsound has grown to include more than 25,000 recordings. Given that breadth, any attempt to briefly summarize the archives complexity is bound to come up short. Since 2007, triple canopy has advanced a model for publication that encompasses digital works of art and literature, public conversations, exhibitions, and books.
This piece is 4,800 words or about ten printed pages long. In use by over 60 broadway shows and national tours, including hamilton and book of mormon, and by over 50,000 users. Ara shirinyan, judith goldman, robert fitterman, caroline bergvall, bill kennedy, m. The course was written, and the field developed, by a number of selfdescribed performance writers and academics including john hall, ric allsopp, caroline bergvall, aaron williamson, brigid mc leer, alaric sumner, redell olsen, cris cheek, peter jager, barbara bridger. The wire international and awardwinning poet and sound artist, caroline bergvall has an interdisciplinary practice and works across artforms media and languages. Interview with caroline bergvall in contemporary womens writing, vol 5 no 3 nov 2011. For stephen greenblatt, composition is an action and writing.
Gilbert and grape lone ranging romance 20052008 gilbertandgrape and their lone ranger, a 20 kilo stuffed moose head, propose to travel the coasts of england and norway in a volvo amazon to search out and collect stories from people with an interest in nostalgia, document vague memories, exchange taped music and watch sunsets at the end of the day. Id love to hear from ukers who have direct experience with such programs to learn more about them and will do some research for a future post, but from my limited understanding i can at least suggest that we take a look at caroline bergvalls 1996 keynote at the first symposium of performance writing at dartington college of arts. 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. This book gathers a decade of caroline bergvalls innovative pieces, from her long outofprint performance text goan atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of hans bellmers doll and violent love fantasies of other radical bodyinspired artists, the shorter chaucer, a series of contemporary tales exploring social mores in a feisty mix of languages, and the hybrid and visual prose pieces. Myhr, playing the 12string acoustic guitar with the montrealbased string quartet quatour bozzini, fellownorwegian percussionist ingar zach and the voice of bergvall, trading her own text created minimalist yet strongly lyrical and quite intense soundscapes. A written transcription of the interview is available for hard of hearing people. The best part is the service is free and automatically backs up to the cloud, which gives it an edge over the muchloved scrivener program that is paidfor and offline by default. Bergvall is a poet and performance artist based in london, england. On performance writing tim etchells world theatre 2. Psychoanalytic night at hooters was published as part of triple canopys immaterial literature project area, which receives support from the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts, the brown foundation, inc. The aloud writing is showing up the connections of a hand tied to writing.
At its most basic, saying that writing is performative means that writing acts, that it can make things happen. Oct 10, 20 writing that gestural and calligraphic skills, long devalued by most western poetry, have found their way back to art through performance and bodyrelated visual arts. This library of audio books and poetry features digital recordings and mp3s from the naropa poetics audio archive, librivox, project gutenberg, maria lectrix, and internet archive users. C bergvall in contemporary poetry, edinburgh up, 2011. Bergvalls other works in fig often do not look like poems in any expected sense, instead appearing as prose paragraphs or fragments, often using unconventional elements like hyphens, ellipses, slashes, or even blank space to fill up the pages. Above all then, writing must be flexible to a reader and writers needs, thought provoking and challenging, but it must also be enjoyable and in that joy the chessbard reminds us that writing well means playing well. Theoretical and programmatic research from the center on accelerating student learning. Caroline bergvall, aaron williamson, brigid mc leer, alaric sumner, redell olsen, cris cheek, peter jager, barbara. Caroline bergvall takes language and the visual representation of language very very seriously but her work isnt either sombre or portentous. Wilson fellow in poetry and drama at the university of cambridge 201220. Having read the interview in jacket i wish id gone to see her southampton show i had the opportunity, its quite nearby and. The recording is followed by a conversation with whitstable biennale performance curator keira greene, in which anna describes her work with reading groups and voice recognition software, as well as the ideas and texts informing her work.
For candace spigelman, every writing is, to a great or lesser extent, a rhetoricalperformance spigelman 2004, 49. This book gathers a decade of caroline bergvall s innovative pieces, from her long outofprint performance text goan atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of hans bellmers doll and violent love fantasies of other radical bodyinspired artists, the shorter chaucer, a series of contemporary tales exploring social mores in a feisty mix of languages, and the hybrid and visual prose pieces. Id love to hear from ukers who have direct experience with such programs to learn more about them and will do some research for a future post, but from my limited understanding i can at least suggest that we take a look at caroline bergvall s 1996 keynote at the first symposium of performance writing at dartington college of arts. The company challenges theatrical responses to the urban experiences of its audience. Created in 2012 stage write software is a digital solution to document staging and choreography for theatrical productions of all sizes. Recording performance recording as performance an essay and playlist by michael s. Caroline bergvall regards writing as a textual performance that takes place on and through the space of the page bergvall 1999, 112. At the intersection of performance art, installation and writing, fiona templetons 1995 text installation cells of release at the disused eastern penitentiary in philadelphia, imbricates the architectural space of the building a series of cells lining both sides of a corridor with movement through that space and the work of handwriting a. This is the meaning students in the stanford study of writing, a longitudinal exploration of writing development during the college years, meant when they told researchers over and over again that good writing is writing that. In reading caroline bergvalls 2005 book fig, the poem via. Extensive interview with feminist literary scholar pdf nerys williams.
The first english poet to be seriously inspired by dante was geoffrey chaucer died 1400. Performance writing is one of those unwieldy terms not quite familiar enough for us to assume we already know what it means, not quite descriptive enough for us to simply guess. Tim etchells is the director of the uk performance company forced entertainment. Teatro delle albe will be coming to penn in fall 2020, and we will devote that week to their oncampus performing. Toward a digital dramaturgy, a presentation paper cowritten and copresented by barbara bridger and myself at. Although writing is neglected by nclb, other voices, such as the college board, an organization of more than 4,300 colleges, wa rned that students and society will be shortimproving the writing performance of young struggling writers. Having read the interview in jacket i wish id gone to see her southampton show i had the opportunity, its quite nearby and i wanted to see it when i had the chance. From the outset, performance writing has taken a consistently broad and overtly interdisciplinary approach to what writing is and what writing does in a range of social and disciplinary contexts, exploring writing and textual practice in relation to visual art, digital media, installation, performance, collaborative practices and soundaudio. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Writing on writing on performance writing lapsus linguae.
Writing that gestural and calligraphic skills, long devalued by most western poetry, have found their way back to art through performance and bodyrelated visual arts. Improving the writing performance of young struggling writers. Using writing strategies and visual thinking software. Hopefully we might also welcome the franconorwegian, englishlanguage performance artist caroline bergvall to class, too. Performance writing was inaugurated as a bachelor of arts undergraduate course at dartington college of arts in 1994. Here are a few steps we advise people to take when writing a biography for the first time. The mesostics of john cage, his writings through, are quite well known. Nov 05, 2012 tim etchells is the director of the uk performance company forced entertainment. The quality and quantity of each students written products were tracked daily, as well as student attitudes toward writing.
She has been the director of the performance writing program at dartington college of arts 19952000, cochair of the mfa in writing, bard college 20052007, recent guest faculty at naropa university, and the judith e. 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. This list is generated automatically and includes monoskop pages categorised as conceptual writing. We are looking for an innovative and collaborative digital artist light designer to join the artistic team for a new immersive audiovisual performance piece by caroline bergvall. A visiting professor of medieval studies at kings college london, caroline bergvall is an international poet, artist, and performer who works across artforms, media, and languages. This model hinges on the development of publishing systems that incorporate networked forms of production and circulation. Projects alternate between books and printed matter, collaborative performances, sitespecific installations and. Editing, customizing, selecting, moving, and block zoom.
Etchells theory on writing texts for performance is that a text can be a text for something, rather in the traditional theatre world, as a text about something. Caroline bergvall s writing explores language as the restlesss, unstable shaper of cultures, places and identities. Machine coauthorships via translative creative writing. Speaking writing voice, simultaneous sound of writing pen. Above all then, writing must be flexible to a reader and writers needs, thought provoking and challenging, but it must also be enjoyable and in that joy the chessbard reminds us. A text is prepared as an orthographic instrument by searching through it for the letters most frequently of a proper name, that of a hero of the avant garde, or. Scrivener scrivener is packed with all the features a novelist needs, helping you track plot threads, store notes on characters and locations, structure your. Nourbese philip, craig dworkin, and kenneth goldsmith variously assemble poetic material taken from the public. To further underline the iterative nature of the performance writing methodology employed in this chapter, i will note here that the abovecited adaptation of bergvalls text was later integrated into call and response. If youre writing a biography for college, you probably have the option of choosing your subject. The aloudwriting is showing up the connections of a hand tied to writing.
The compositional structure of this work uses live performers in combination with a cast of remote voices streamed live. Caroline bergvall reads mont blanc by percy bysshe shelley. A quick two minute overview of how writers blocks works. During a 1month summer remedial program, 24 seventh and eighthgrade students with mild disabilities were taught to use writing strategies, inspiration software, and word processors. What are some good programssoftware downloads for a. Working closely with artists, writers, technologists, and. Jun 23, 2016 at its most basic, saying that writing is performative means that writing acts, that it can make things happen. Writing in 1995 caroline bergvall noted that her earlier work, until that time, eschewed the troubled relation between text and performance which has pervaded the twentieth century. The translation of process exposes the processes of translation and writing as process. Writing and reading are always mutual and messy and iterative, but that is what makes it fun, playful. The writing editor itself is nice and plain though, offering a basic toolbar and buttons that access your various notes and ideas. The border crossings of caroline bergvall, performance writing, and iterative poetics by jacob edmond in his monograph. The poetic theme of fragile, slow transformation captures perfectly the sonic essence of pressing clouds passing crowds.
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