Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña

出生 : 1948-07-22, Santiago, Chile

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Norma Cecilia Vicuña Ramírez, visual artist and writer. She was born on July 22, 1948 in Santiago, Chile. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Chile in 1971. Later in 1972 she traveled to London where she did postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts at University College. She is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Chile. She formed a group of artists and poets called Tribu No. At the beginning of 1970 she made a series of installations and art actions related to the theme of symbols of the pre-Columbian indigenous world, nature and South American mythology in general. In 1973 the BBC of London, made a documentary about his poetic-visual work In his visual work he has dedicated himself to oil painting, sculpture and video production. He has also published numerous poetic works and has given conferences on art. In 1975 she settled in Colombia where she continued her studies on American Indian popular culture and worked as a professor of Art History at the Fundación Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the course of Contemporary Latin American Poetry at the Fundación El Arte of the Universidad Libre de Bogotá. In 1980 she moved to New York City, USA.

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Cecilia Vicuña

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A Living Knot
Director
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.
SemiYa
Self
Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.
SemiYa
Director
Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.
Kon Kon
Screenplay
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.
Kon Kon
Director
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.
Paracas
Director
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.
Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada
Director
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.
What Is Poetry to You?
Director
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