[New York, NY]

David Grubbs performance with Caroline Bergvall, with reading by Jerome Rothenberg
October 9, 2019, 8:00 pm
at The Poetry Project

Caroline Bergvall will be joined by UDP contributor David Grubbs (ONE AND ONE LESS, 2017).

 

David Grubbs is a Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He teaches in the Brooklyn College MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of Now that the audience is assembled and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (both published by Duke University Press). Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 190 releases, including Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks). In 2000, his album, The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe, visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, and choreographer Jonah Bokaer. His work has been presented at MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou among other venues. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait. He has performed with the Red Krayola, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, and many others. His collaboration with Eli Keszler, One and One Less was published in 2017 as the first vinyl record of the UDPR series.

 

Caroline Bergvall is an award-winning poet and sound artist, of French-Norwegian background based in London, UK. She works across artforms, media and languages; and outputs alternate between books, collaborative performances and language installations. Her pieces and essays have been translated into many languages. Her publications include Drift (recipient of the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, 2017), Meddle English: New and Selected Texts (recently translated into French: L’Anglais Mêlé, 2018), a collection of early interdisciplinary pieces Fig (2005) as well as the DVD Ghost Pieces: five language-based installations (2010). She is the first recipient of the Art Literary prize Prix Littéraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017). Recent commissions include the multi-voice work Conference of the Birds, Dublin ILF (2019); and the broadcast soundwork Oh My Oh My for Documenta14, Kassel/Athens (2017). She was the director of Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995–2000), co-Chair of the MFA in Writing, Bard College (2005–2007) and Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry and Drama at the University of Cambridge (2012–2013). Currently Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies at King’s College London. Forthcoming Autumn 2019: Alisoun Sings (Nightboat), the final book in her trilogy of pieces inspired by medieval and contemporary sources.

 

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally celebrated poet, translator, anthologist, and performer with over ninety books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the Millennium. Recent books of poetry include A Field on Mars (in English and French), The President of Desolation, The Mystery of False Attachments, and Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. He is currently assembling a transnational anthology of North and South American poetry “from origins to present.” He will be launching two titles at The Poetry Project on October 9: The President of Desolation (Black Widow Press) and The Mystery of False Attachments (Word Palace).

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