On Things: A Conversation with Kris Paulsen (with Shana Lutker) (original) (raw)

A conversation with Caroline Bergvall

Jacket2, 2011

Caroline Bergvall: My first collaboration was with a photographer, Guri Dahl. Her work was very abstract, serial, black and white, and I was performing short prose pieces to go alongside her slide projections. What I really liked was the performance aspect of it, and the fact that as I was reading in the dark, my live voice functioned as a sort of voiceover. I remember that with much, much pleasure. I was also involved in FM radio for a time, and I would be testing some of my textual performances on air. Not always with the same approval rating from the listeners, I might add. So live performance drew out my interest in embodied presentations of text. When my collaborations became about interventions on site, or performances of site, they somehow broadened this focus.

Conversations with Malke Rosenfeld

Editor's Note: In the summer of 2013 I ran across artist J. E. Johnson and our interest in each other's teaching work sparked a written dialogue that proved to be generative and instructive on a lot of levels, especially about what it means to call yourself an artist who teaches. Following is a threepost series that shares our (lightly edited) e-mail conversation around this idea.

Anthea Garman Inaugural Lecture 1 August 2018

A series of accidents brought me to this place today where I get to address those who've become an important part of my life about what my life's work means and adds up to. Many people don't get such an opportunity, but the academic community believes in the values of history and reflection, so such an opportunity is afforded to me, and I count myself fortunate (and a little bit terrified) to have it. Those accidents (which I will talk about a little more) have meant that I have had a whole career (as a journalist) before I became an academic and so I am a little older perhaps than most professors standing in the same spot. I am close-ish to the ending of this career and I intend to have another one (as a fully-fledged writer) before I finish altogether. What I want to talk about are the deep preoccupations of my life which are: the personal and the political, talk and listening, and of course, writing.