Cecilia Vicuña

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¿Qué es para usted la poesía?
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¿Qué es para usted la poesía?

Jan 01, 1980

¿Qué es para usted la poesía?
1980 23 min 1 vues
Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this fundamental inquiry: ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? / What is poetry to you?, Vicuña unravels the role and substance of poetry in people’s lives. Speaking with school children, street performers, policemen, sex workers, fellow artists, and a scientist, the all embracing character of poetry emerges—its transformative role in personal relations, as a basis of oral history and the revolutionary imagination. – Chris Borkowski
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SemiYa
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SemiYa

Jun 27, 2015

SemiYa
2015 8 min 1 vues
Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
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Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

Jan 01, 1970

Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
1970 15 min 1 vues
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues is a tribute and call to action for linguistic diversity. A 15-minute motion poem (poem on film), each line comes from a different treasure or minority language. 48 speakers each speak in their mother tongues, as line by line, language by language, the poem is created.
SemiYa
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SemiYa

Jun 27, 2015

SemiYa
2015 8 min 1 vues
Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.
Un nudo vivo
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Un nudo vivo

Jan 01, 2017

Un nudo vivo
2017 7 min 1 vues
This performance takes place at the Puente de Cal y Canto bridge in Santiago de Chile, constructed during colonial times at the site where an Inka rope bridge had once connected the south and north of Chile. Vicuña invited friends and passersby to join in creating "a living knot" (un nudo vivo), to recover the memory of the sacred Mapocho Valley and its river, now deeply contaminated. This is one of several "performance-knots" of her Quipu Mapocho, conducted between 2016 and 2017.
Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada
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Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada

Jan 01, 1980

Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada
1980 7 min 1 vues
In this performance, filmed in March 1980, Sol y Dar y Dad (Solidarity: To Give and Give Sun), one of the word-splitting, deconstructive poems Vicuña calls palabrarmas, is danced by Sofía Torres, young actors, volunteers from Corporación Colombiana de Teatro, and children at the Parque Nacional de Bogotá.
¿Qué es para usted la poesía?
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¿Qué es para usted la poesía?

Jan 01, 1980

¿Qué es para usted la poesía?
1980 23 min 1 vues
Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this fundamental inquiry: ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? / What is poetry to you?, Vicuña unravels the role and substance of poetry in people’s lives. Speaking with school children, street performers, policemen, sex workers, fellow artists, and a scientist, the all embracing character of poetry emerges—its transformative role in personal relations, as a basis of oral history and the revolutionary imagination. – Chris Borkowski
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Fire Over Water
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Fire Over Water

Jan 01, 2014

Fire Over Water
2014 7 min 1 vues
In this "video poem," Vicuña responds to Gasland 2, a 2013 documentary by Josh Fox examining the devastating environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing in the United States. The audio recording of the poem Vicuña reads is from a July 18, 2013 performance at Poets House in New York City.
Paracas
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Paracas

Jan 01, 1983

Paracas
1983 19 min 1 vues
A three-dimensional animation of a pre Columbian textile. The Paracas textile, 300-100 BC, was found in a tomb in the south coast desert of Perú, and is a part of the collection of The Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Animation
Disappeared Quipu
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Disappeared Quipu

Jul 06, 2018

Disappeared Quipu
2018 490 min 1 vues
Projected from four sides, utilizing four separate bespoke films to collide into one full piece, over a series of knotted wool strands created by Vicuña and suspended from the ceiling of the gallery.
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La Noche de la Especies
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La Noche de la Especies

Jul 12, 2017

La Noche de la Especies
2017 60 min 1 vues
Noche de las especies [Night of the Species], a video animation by Robert Kolodny based on Cecilia Vicuña's drawings from the Noche de las especies.
Animation
Death of the Pollinators
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Death of the Pollinators

Jul 13, 2021

Death of the Pollinators
2021 7 min 1 vues
A film by Robert Kolodny using poems and sounds of Cecilia Vicuña and auditory landscapes of musician Ricardo Gallo, telling the story of the death of the Earth's pollinating insects.
Animation
Yellow Soto
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Yellow Soto

Jul 08, 2007

Yellow Soto
2007 25 min 1 vues
A performance lecture on the 1990 sculpture "Penetrable" by Jesús Soto. Poets were asked to respond to the works of artists included in the show, "The Geometry of Hope" at the Grey Art Gallery.
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Vaso de Leche
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Vaso de Leche

Jul 13, 2008

Vaso de Leche
2008 137 min 1 vues
A 2008 recreation of a 1979 performance gives way to a projection of the slides depicting images from the artist's archive relative to dairy crime.
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Lápiz en Bote
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Lápiz en Bote

Jul 13, 2009

Lápiz en Bote
2009 3 min 1 vues
The artist precariously films her "basuritas" made from debris as the sea removes them.
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Río Mapocho
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Río Mapocho

Jul 05, 2012

Río Mapocho
2012 137 min 1 vues
Cecilia Vicuña and the Pichimuchina performed a ritual for the waters of the Mapocho River in Santiago Chile. This mighty river had dried up as a result of global warming, however next day it rained and the river swelled for a few hours.
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Parti Si Pasion
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Parti Si Pasion

Jul 12, 2008

Parti Si Pasion
2008 6 min 1 vues
Pigments are scattered across the asphalt in Manhattan, a thread is tied by poet Cecilia Vicuña between the present and the past.
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Kon Kon
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Kon Kon

Nov 21, 2010

Kon Kon
2010 54 min 1 vues
In this documentary poem, Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Con, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being destroyed.
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Kon Kon
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Kon Kon

Nov 21, 2010

Kon Kon
2010 54 min 1 vues
In this documentary poem, Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Con, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being destroyed.
Documentary