Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, March 16-June 18, 2017, co-curated by Andrea Andersson and Julia Bryan-Wilson. "This artist's book is the second in a collaborative series between the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and Siglio in which artists are invited to intervene in the history and space of the book in conuunction with a solo exhibition at the CAC." -- Page 152 Includes contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Andrea Andersson, Lucy Lippard and Macarena Gomez-Barris. Contains bibliographical references.
Contents:
I Felt the Sea Sense Me: Ecologies and Dystopias in Cecilia Vicuna's Kon Kon / Macarena Gomez-Barris. Vicuna in Retrospect / Andrea Andersson -- Floating Between Past and Future: The Indigenization of Environmental Politics / Lucy Lippard -- I Felt the Sea Sense Me: Ecologies and Dystopias in Cecilia Vicuna's Kon Kon / Macarena Gomez-Barris.
Summary:
"Cecilia Vicuna: About to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change. The first major U.S. solo exhibition of the influential Chilean-born artist is comprised of Vicuna's multidisciplinary work in performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and site-specific installations over the course of the past 40 years. Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence of 1960s conceptualism and radical climate change-the exhibition examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility. Operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile, Vicuna's practice weaves together disparate disciplines as well as communities-with shared relationships to land and sea, and to the economic and environmental disparities of the 21st century." Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
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