Cecilia Vicuña: about to Happen |
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Artist:
| Vicuna, Cecilia |
Text by:
| Andersson, Andrea Lippard, Lucy R. Gómez-Barris, Macarena |
Interviewer:
| Bryan-Wilson, Julia |
ISBN: | 978-1-938221-23-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2019 |
Publisher: | Siglio Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña's artist's book on the politics of the sea
Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happenserves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In this artist's book, Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña weaves personal and ancestral memory while summoning the collective power to confront the economic disparities and environmental crises of the 21st century.More Description
A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña's artist's book on the politics of the sea
Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happenserves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In this artist's book, Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña weaves personal and ancestral memory while summoning the collective power to confront the economic disparities and environmental crises of the 21st century.
Collecting the detritus that washes up on shore, Vicuña assembles out of the refuse tiny precariosand basuritas--little sculptures held together with nothing more than string and wire, which she sometimes makes as offerings to be reclaimed by the sea.
About to Happentraces a decades-long practice that has refused categorical distinctions and thrived within the confluences of conceptual art, land art, feminist art, performance and poetry. Vicuña's nuanced visual poetics--operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile--transforms the discarded into the elemental, paying acute attention to the displaced, the marginalized and the forgotten.