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^

Claire Hind is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at York St John University, UK. Her practice is concerned with the making and shaping of live performance using conceptual art and physical performance techniques, and her research is focused upon performance making using notions of ‘dark’ and ‘deep’ play. Her work Screen Test featured at the Performance Studies International conference at Brown University, USA, and at the Function live art event, with Nottingham based live artists Reactor. She has an international reputation for creating contemporary performance work and, since 1998, has directed several cross cultural collaboration projects in Romania for The Sibiu International Theatre Festival, and for the TJUZ Theatre St Petersburg. Claire has a history of making performance projects in collaboration with Claire Macdonald including the durational installation project In Bed at George Mason University, Virginia in 2003.

Simon Zimmerman is an artist and freelance Producer and Project Manager. Between 2005 and 2008 Simon was responsible for Arts Council England's "Artists' Insights" programme, and managed an investment of £3.5 million in support services for professional artists across England. Simon is currently Producer for London based theatre O, and the space between^words. As an artist, Simon's concerns focus on the relationships between language and loss, and he is currently developing a new project Understandable Loss bringing together his interests in endangered language research and erasure as writing.