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About Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall is a writer of French-Norwegian origins based in London. She works across artforms media and languages; her projects alternate between books audio pieces collaborative performances and language installations. Her publications include Drift (recipient of the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry) Meddle English: New and Selected Texts (recently translated into the French: L'Anglais mêlé) 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 toured Europe in 2014-2105. She has been the director of the Performance Writing program at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000) co-Chair of the MFA in Writing Bard College (2005-2007) recent guest faculty at Naropa University and the Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry and Drama at the University of Cambridge (2012-2013). Caroline is currently a Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies at Kings College London.