Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, May-November 2019, and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, February-August 2020. Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-351).
Contents:
Language is migrant. Dawn Adès -- Selected writings by Cecilia Vicuña -- Cecilia Vicuña: a retrospective for eyes that do not see / Miguel A. López -- The living room / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- To liberate! About Cecilia Vicuña's Palabrama's / Carla Maria Macchiavello -- Spinning the common thread / Lucy Lippard -- Cecilia Vicuña's Calcomanías / Dawn Adès -- Artworks. Seed song -- Dangerous dreamers -- Palabrar -- The contaminated indigenous woman -- Selected writings by Cecilia Vicuña -- No Manifiesto de la Tribu No [no manifesto of the No Tribe] -- Pain Things & Explanations -- Lecture on the arts in Chile after 1970 -- The coup came to kill what I loved -- Choosing the feather -- Word & thread -- Language is migrant.
Summary:
Overlapping autobiography with sharp political reflections, Vicuña weaves visceral entanglements between word and seed, sound and thread, quipu and blood, body and dust, or rubbish and cosmos. This exhibition and accompanying publication is the most comprehensive survey today of a groundbreaking work that has been deeply influential among her peers and for later generations. As the exhibition, this publication gives an overview of Vicuña's artistic practice as a poet, visual artist, and activist from the 1960s to the present day. It is edited by López, designed by Studio Manuel Raeder in Berlin, and includes a forward by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, new essays by Miguel A. López, Julia Bryan-Wilson and Carla María Macchiavello, existing essays by Lucy Lippard and Dawn Adès, an anthology of texts authored by Cecilia Vicuña, and a number of previously unpublished visual documentation that expands our understanding of her work.
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