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Caroline Bergvall 1. Via 2. About Face Notes VIA (48 Dante Variations) is a compiled list of translations into English of Dante's opening lines. As archived in the British Library up until May 2000. 700 years after the date set for the start of the journey into Hell. The Journey was timed to start and end in 1300. And Dante's 35th year or so-called point of mid-life. Recorded and composed with Ciáran Maher (Summer 2000). The full text has been featured in CHAIN's "Transluccinacion" issue (Autumn 2003). ABOUT FACE. This text started as a performance for the Liminal Institute Festival in Berlin in 1999. I had just had a painful tooth pulled out and could read neither very clearly nor very fast. Tape players with German and English conversations on the text were circulated among the audience. It took 45 minutes to perform the materials. For its 2nd showing at Bard College, I speeded up the tapes, transcribed the snaps of half-heard materials, and integrated these to the performing voice. The reading presented here took place in 2002 at the 2nd Anderson festival, Devon UK, curated by Nicholas Johnson. By now, it took 10 minutes to read. A version of the opening section is featured at the Electronic Poetry review #6 http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue6/text/cnotes/cb.htm Another short section is featured at the British Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poems/bergvall_1.htm RELATED RESOURCES: Caroline Bergvall in UbuWeb ContemporaryUbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb PennSound | GreyLodge | Artmob | EPC | WFMU |