Hello friends,

Nearly half-way through the year and it's time to share a few things with you. We live in such deeply transitory times, so erratic and difficult, it's tough to know how to filter and use the emotional pressures this generates. At the moment I feel that what I can best contribute with is to continue to explore and re-imagine language connections, art connections, keep on inviting others into it, and push at the sensory and radical capacity of art and performance to move and energise.

I have a few projects on the go and have been joined in their production by Michaela Freeman and Angharad Cooper. Project Assistant is Harriet Cook. My thanks to all involved in making the projects below and others to come possible.

Hope to see you around at some of this
Take care,
Caroline
 

UPCOMING EVENTS:



Conference (after Sweeney) - live discussion & soundwork.
The International Literature Festival, Dublin, 25 May 8pm Info & Book

“The most ambitious meditation on the way people, birds and words live in perpetual migration”.  The Guardian

This work centres on a live conversation with six speakers from various fields and artforms: a sociolinguist, a singer, a poet, a medievalist, a geographer, a nature recordist.

The live discussion changes slowly into a contextual soundwork and pushes at perceptual thinking and listening. Migratory birds recorded locally circulate in the space. The title is an allusion to the medieval Irish poem of Mad King Sweeney cursed into exile as a bird. With Vahni Capildeo, Ceara Conway, Vera Regan, Geoff Sample, James L. Smith and David Wallace with live processing from sound artist Rob Blazey.

Conference (after Attar), 2018 - film just launched!
Have a look at the gorgeous short film by Andy Delaney from last year’s first work in this format, Conference (after Attar), commissioned by the Whitstable Biennale.  8mins.

Language Station Event, King's College, London, 21 June - Info & Book

This intimate event is the first of my Language Station recorded conversations to be open to the public. Since 2016, the main focus to these has been to record conversations with writers/artists of "minoritised" languages, and feed edited sections of these into my performance Ragadawn and now also Sonic Atlas. 

On invitation from King's College’s large-scale research project “World Making and Language Acts”, this is a special opportunity to listen to, discuss and share in the ancient languages of Galician and Ladino through current practitioners: the wonderful singer Monica Acosta, poet Alba Cid, scholar Julian Weiss, and a unique contribution by Canadian poet and translator Erin Moure (live link).

Preceded by an afternoon workshop with interdisciplinary translator Jen Calleja.
The event is in English/Galician/Ladino.
Open to the public but limited spaces so must book!

Language Station Podcasts - more info

We are working on a series of short podcasts from past and ongoing encounters, edited with our new team member, sound recordist Caleb Watson. First three to be launched end June.

VARIOUS GROUP SHOWS & OTHER COLLABORATIONS: