Viv Corringham

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, currently based in Minnesota, USA, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Her work includes music performances, audio installations and soundwalks.  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. She has participated in gallery shows from San Francisco to New York to Portugal. 

Since 2007 works appeared in  Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal; NAISA Toronto, Canada; Abrons Art Center, New York City; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco; Galata Perform, Istanbul; Binaural, Nodar, Portugal; MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis; Grand Marais Art Colony, MN; Women in New Music Festival, Fullerton CA; Spark Electronic Music Festival, Minneapolis; Rochester Art Center MN and Soundworks Festival, Ireland. She composed works for the renowned St Paul new music group Zeitgeist, for solo performances and for an ad-hoc group performance at the ISIM conference, Denver. Her work has been heard in Britain on BBC radio, Resonance FM radio and Channel 4 TV, and in the US on WFMU, WLUW, WMSE, MPR and other NPR stations.

Articles about her have appeared in Organised Sound (UK), Musicworks (Canada), Playing With Words (UK) and For Those Who have Ears (Ireland). She has been artist-in-residence at Binaural (Portugal), Sirius Art Centre and Art Trail (Ireland), Art Colony (Minnesota) and Cal State University (California). She received a McKnight Composer Fellowship in 2006.

You can listen to extracts of two sound works at mnartists.org.