Writer and artist who works across artforms, media and languages. Of French-Norwegian background, based in London.

She is a strong exponent of writing methods adapted to contemporary audiovisual and contextual concerns and multilingual identities. Her artistic and critical investigations explore performative language use and fluctuating forms of cultural belonging. Through micro-structural methods of work and the impact of sparse displays she revisits literary models and tackles difficult historical and political events. Her starting-points and source materials readily emerge from both ancient cultural detail and contemporary cultural artifacts as well as spoken and changing written languages.

Projects alternate between textual pieces and books, audioworks, visual textworks, net-based pieces, drawings, live performances, books, and sited installations, often in collaboration, both in Europe, Scandinavia and in North America where she presents her work and readings extensively.

Latest output: Meddle English: New and Selected Texts (Nightboat Books, NY 2011-2nd print. 2013), currently being translated into French (Les Presses du Réel). DVD of solo works: GH<>ST PIECES: 4 language-based installations (John Hansard Gallery Publs. Autumn 2012.

Other books include: Middling English (John Hansard Gallery catalogue, Southampton, 2011). Fig (2005), Goan Atom (2001) Eclat. (1996/ubu editions redesign, 2006).

Forthcoming: DRIFT (Nightboat Books, 2014) - initially commissioned as a live performance (voice / percussion/ electronic text) by Grü/Transtheatre (Geneva, 2012).

Selection of current/forthcoming group and solo shows: South Bank Centre (London, April-June’13). Tate Modern (London, July-September’13), The Powerplant Gallery (Toronto, June-August’13), Vita Kuben/Norrlandsoperan (November-December ‘13, Sweden).

She has also exhibited/performed at: MOMA (NY), DIA Arts Foundation (NY), MCA (Denver), Fundacio Tapiès (Barcelona), Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol), The Serpentine Gallery (London), MCA (Antwerp), MACBA (Barcelona), Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh), Godsbanen (Aarhus), ao.

Currently the Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry and Drama (University of Cambridge).

She was Director of Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000), co-Chair MFA in Writing, Bard College (NY, 2005-2007), Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College, London (2000–2003, and a recent faculty guest at Naropa’s School of Disembodied Poetics (2010/2012).

Awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts(2007-2010).

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