The line ‘workable pussy’ appears to have its erotic cake and eat it too.

Drew Milne, A Veritable Dollmine: Caroline Bergvall’s Goan Atom Jacket #12 (July 2000)
In her second book, English poet and performance artist Bergvall builds and demolishes a set of phonetic analogies between words and bodies; both are permeable, expanding and contracting, accepting improvised additions and rejecting some.

—Publishers Weekly, August 6 2001.
Goan Atom occurs at the junction of a number of different intellectual and aestheticcontexts: contexts which Bergvall has assiduously traced and, where necessary,created.

—Nicky Marsh: Review of FIG (Salt Books), HOW 2 (Vol.2. Nr. 2, Dec 2004)
Linda Kinnahan: “Caroline Bergvall’s rearticulated bodies: Photography and the graphic page” in Mina Loy, Twentieth Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets, Routledge, 2017 – 236-254.
John Stammers interview with Caroline Bergvall: Speaking in Tongues, Magma 15, 1994

Republished in full in Meddle English(Nightboat, 2011)
The work started out as Jets-Poupee (Rem Press, 1999)
Translated into French in L‘Anglais Mêlé (Presses du Réel, 2018)

DETAILS

ISBN: 1-928650-08-2
Krupskaya Books, San Francisco, 2001
Out of Print

Full graphic text version of my explorations around Bellmer’s festishistic series of sculpture photographs: La Poupée. Variations autour d’une mineure articulée (1935/1936). A pretext to rearticulate the female body through bilingual syntax, queer imagination and more recent visual arts connections.

Jets-Poupee

DETAILS

Chapbook
Rem Press, Cambridge, 1999
First published version of what became Goan Atom

Print run: 100 copies, numbered
Out of print

RemPress was a project of 12 books/poetic sequences, all following a strict house style design with individual endpaper colour. Curated by Lucy Sheerman & Karlien van Beunkel. Square 12 x12 cm, spiral binding, neon green endpaper.

The line ‘workable pussy’ appears to have its erotic cake and eat it too.

In her second book, English poet and performance artist Bergvall builds and demolishes a set of phonetic analogies between words and bodies; both are permeable, expanding and contracting, accepting improvised additions and rejecting some.

Goan Atom occurs at the junction of a number of different intellectual and aestheticcontexts: contexts which Bergvall has assiduously traced and, where necessary,created.

Jets-Poupee

Fig

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