
Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, currently based in Minneapolis, USA, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Her work includes music performances and audio installations. She is interested in exploring people’s special relationship with familiar places and how that links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association. Her ongoing project Shadow-walks has been presented in gallery shows from New York to Istanbul to Portugal.
Current musical collaborators include ex-This Heat Charles Hayward + ex-Pinski Zoo Nick Doyne Ditmas as Monkey Puzzle Trio in London, Milo Fine in Minneapolis, Mike Cooper in Rome and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse featuring Pauline Oliveros in Second Life.
Recent work has featured in Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal; C33 Gallery, Chicago; Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY; Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY; NAISA Toronto, Canada; Abrons Art Center, New York City; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco; Galata Perform, Istanbul and Spark Electronic Music Festival, Minneapolis. She received a McKnight Composer Fellowship in 2006.
Recent works on CD:
Viv Corringham-Shadow Walks in the USA (Deep Listening 2010)
Monkey Puzzle Trio-White World (Slowfoot 2010)
Audio:
Corringham - Maresia Part 1
(Shadow-walks, Porto 2010)
Corringham - Slack Tide
(Shadow-walks, London 2009)
Video works:
Shadow-walks: Kingston
Video Documentation of Performance:
Corringham (voice) and Tucker (guitar) Part 1
Corringham (voice) and Tucker (guitar) Part 2
Mopomoso free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club, London. 18th April 2010.
Filmed by Helen Petts.
Corringham - Together then created a journey that both forgot. (For Paul Burwell)
Filmed by Helen Petts.
Copyright Viv Corringham