Claire MacDonald initiated the space between^words in 2006 in order to research the encounter between art, writing and performance. She is Director of the International Centre for Fine Art Research, University of the Arts London, writes about visual art and performance and holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has just completed her first novel, ‘All that Remains’ and her current work for performance includes the new play ‘Correspondence,’ directed by Patrick Morris for Menagerie, and a new collaborative performance work with Charlotte Vincent of Vincent Dance. She is a co-founding editor of the journal Performance Research, and a Contributing Editor of Performing Arts Journal.

Caroline Bergvall’s work alternates between published poetic pieces and more performance-oriented, often sound-driven writing projects. She collaborates frequently with other artists and her books are noted for their combination of performative, visual and literary textualities. She has developed audioworks, visual textwork, net-based pieces, live and sited performances, both in Europe and in North America and has toured her work and readings extensively. Her poetics are concerned with cultural and linguistic performativity, mixed-media writings and the politics and imaginaries of writing multilingually. Her critical essays and talks address these issues through the works of a number of poets and text-based artists. Her ongoing series of perfomative and poetic texts GOAN ATOM has so far produced two volumes: Goan Atom 1 (Krupskaya, 2001) and Fig (Salt, 2005). The recent and popular cycle of pieces "Shorter Chaucer Tales" written in Middle English and contemporary vernaculars has been hosted online by PennSound and Jacket and is being translated into Norwegian and French. A limited edition of "Alyson Singes" was recently produced on the occasion of a live presentation of the Shorter Chaucer pieces as a collaboration with DIA Arts Foundation (New York, June'08). She has presented work at Tate Modern (London, April'08) and MOMA (NY, '07 & '08) as part of their Modern Poets series. Other recent collaborations include the sound and language installation Say: “Parsley” re-created at the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MuKHa) in Antwerp, May-Aug'08. Caroline Bergvall was the Director of the innovative and cross-arts writing program Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000), and later a Dartington Fellow (2000-2006). Visiting Professor, MA Creative Writing at Temple University (Philadelphia, 2005); co-Chair MFA Writing, Bard College (2004-2007). She has recently been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (England, 2007-2010). Other great sites that I find relevant: artists books^ Ubuweb^ Amanda Stewart^ Xu Bing^ Coco Fusco^ Hamish Fulton^

[[b:Claire MacDonald]] initiated the space between^words in 2006 in order to research the encounter between art, writing and performance. She is Director of the International Centre for Fine Art Research, University of the Arts London, writes about visual art and performance and holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has just completed her first novel, ‘All that Remains’ and her current work for performance includes the new play ‘Correspondence,’ directed by Patrick Morris for Menagerie, and a new collaborative performance work with Charlotte Vincent of Vincent Dance. She is a co-founding editor of the journal Performance Research, and a Contributing Editor of Performing Arts Journal.

[[b:Caroline Bergvall]]’s work alternates between published poetic pieces and more performance-oriented, often sound-driven writing projects. She collaborates frequently with other artists and her books are noted for their combination of performative, visual and literary textualities. She has developed audioworks, visual textwork, net-based pieces, live and sited performances, both in Europe and in North America and has toured her work and readings extensively. Her poetics are concerned with cultural and linguistic performativity, mixed-media writings and the politics and imaginaries of writing multilingually. Her critical essays and talks address these issues through the works of a number of poets and text-based artists. Her ongoing series of perfomative and poetic texts GOAN ATOM has so far produced two volumes: Goan Atom 1 (Krupskaya, 2001) and Fig (Salt, 2005). The recent and popular cycle of pieces "Shorter Chaucer Tales" written in Middle English and contemporary vernaculars has been hosted online by PennSound and Jacket and is being translated into Norwegian and French. A limited edition of "Alyson Singes" was recently produced on the occasion of a live presentation of the Shorter Chaucer pieces as a collaboration with DIA Arts Foundation (New York, June'08). She has presented work at Tate Modern (London, April'08) and MOMA (NY, '07 & '08) as part of their Modern Poets series. Other recent collaborations include the sound and language installation Say: “Parsley” re-created at the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MuKHa) in Antwerp, May-Aug'08. [[b:Caroline Bergvall]] was the Director of the innovative and cross-arts writing program Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000), and later a Dartington Fellow (2000-2006). Visiting Professor, MA Creative Writing at Temple University (Philadelphia, 2005); co-Chair MFA Writing, Bard College (2004-2007). She has recently been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (England, 2007-2010). Other great sites that I find relevant: artists books^ Ubuweb^ Amanda Stewart^ Xu Bing^ Coco Fusco^ Hamish Fulton^