An Interview with Caroline Bergvall
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L A Kinnahan (Duquesne University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 232-251 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpr019 |
| OpenAlex | W2101921052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
On her extensive Web site and in her recently published Meddle English, cross-disciplinary writer Caroline Bergvall includes images of collaged pages that she developed, drawing, in part, upon the Surrealist Hans Bellmer's 1930s photographs of life-size dolls that he built to then take apart and reconstruct in unsettling ways (Meddle 60–61). Visually, the collaged pages physically layer bodies of words, visual markings, and textures of language and parchment, suggesting the page and its language as material, textual bodies, subject to assembly, disassembly, and reassembly. Staging collage in the virtual space of Bergvall's site, this set of pages emphasizes the writing process and the environment of language as visceral, elusive, and material, all the while performing an awareness of itself as text and inter-text. Exploiting technology's promise of access, the private act of writing opens into the public sphere, and the visual mark of the word merges with its sonic dimensions throughout her Web site, as Bergvall reads and performs the layered polysemantics of myriad compositions. A multiplicity and sense of transit (across arts, time, and languages) are suggested by these collaged pages and are insistently explored in the other text-based interactions with diverse media and spaces that distinguish Caroline Bergvall as a poet/artist/critic who, in the words of Charles Bernstein, “has emerged over the past decade as one of the most brilliantly inventive poets of our time.”
Art · Art history · Discipline · Object (grammar · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |