Nattsong: Conversation in the Dark with Caroline Bergvall

CAROLINE BERGVALL is an artist and and writer, who works across art forms, media and languages.

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Caroline Bergvall talks w/ Sukhdev Sandhu and Áine O’Brien about the night, languages, collaboration, and her work  "Nattsong".

To celebrate Caroline's latest performance "Nattsong" and mark the culmination of her long-standing series of works, Sonic Atlas, Caroline will be joined by Sukhdev Sandhu, author of Night Haunts and London Calling, and Áine O’Brien, curator, co-founder of Counterpoints Arts, to reflect on the issues of the night, cultural transformation, language migrations, and the necesstity of collaboration and critical conversation in our times. <a href="https://carolinebergvall.com/work/sonic-atlas-2022/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Read more on Caroline's website. </a>Sukhdev Sandhu has a unique voice, a broad palette of concerns ranging from music, literature to forgotten voices of the northern textile industry or the nocturnal workers of London. He is the author of London Calling: How Black and South Asian Writers Imagined a City, I’ll Get My Coat, Night Haunts and Other Musics. He also directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University and runs the Texte und Töne publishing imprint.Áine O’Brien is a singular and generous curatorial presence in the UK. She is co-Founder of Counterpoints Arts, London and its Curator of Learning and Research. Her productions span documentary film, print, exhibition and curation, exploring global storylines linking migration with human rights and social change. A forthcoming co-edited book is Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship (2021).The structured conversation will last for approx. 50 minutes. It will be followed by a 30-minute open conversation and Q&A with the audience.Specific to Nattsong, they will explore the dark as a sign of gestation, insights, intimacy and also deep fears that enable the re-emergence of collective archetypes. Diving into the unknown of the night at this time of collective upheavals provides a timely reminder of the need for marking a pause, as well as for opening up both to new imaginaries and perhaps other ways of doing things. How does one transform oneself and one another pro-actively in the face of deep changes?They will also touch on themes and ideas that have emerged from Bergvall's Sonic Atlas over the course of this six-year cycle, including collaboration, interdisciplinarity, writing in context, multiple languages, differential identities, the profound value of conversation...

The performance of Nattsong at Turner Contemporary marks the culmination of the Sonic Atlas cycle of live works and their research into languages, landscapes, timezones, conversations, and writing in context.Ghostly and spacious, Nattsong takes an immersive journey into language, refuge and the night and seeks out the elemental connections of languages, the inherently lived interdependence of things and the wisdom voices at the heart of time. Collaborators include: Jamie Hamilton, Gavin Bryars, Peyee Chen, Andrew Delaney.Sonic Atlas began with the sunrise work Ragadawn (2016) and closes at the end of 2021 with the dark and nocturnal work Nattsong.Watch the full live stream of Nattsong here:

About Áine O’Brien: Áine O’Brien is Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder (Co-Director 2012-2020) of Counterpoints Arts, London. Her productions span documentary film, print, exhibition and curation, exploring global storylines linking migration with human rights and social change. A forthcoming co-edited book is Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship (2021).

About Sukhdev Sandhu:Sukhdev Sandhu is the Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities and Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of books including London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, I’ll Get My Coat and Night Haunts: A Journey through the London Night.

About Caroline Bergvall: Award-winning poet, writer, sound artist and performer Caroline Bergvall has been practising as a writer, performer and facilitator for over 20 years. Her practice is interdisciplinary and stretches across various artforms, media and language. Her works include books, performances, installations, soundworks and print.

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