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Beteilige Person: Vicuña, Cecilia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Catskill, NY Siglio [2019]
Ausgabe:Second, revised edition
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Abstract:"Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happen serves as a lament as well as a love letter to the sea as Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña weaves personal and ancestral memory. About to Happen also traces Vicuña's decades-long practice that has refused categorical distinctions and thrived within the confluences of conceptual art, land art, feminist art, performance and poetry. Her nuanced visual poetics -- operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile -- transform the discarded into the elemental, paying acute attention to the displaced, the marginalized and the forgotten. With essays by Andrea Andersson, Macarena Gómez-Barris, and Lucy Lippard, and an interview with the artist by Julia Bryan-Wilson."--Back cover
"Cecilia Vicuña: 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 Vicuña'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, Vicuña'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.
Beschreibung:"About to Happen has been or will be exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2017); the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California (2018); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2019); and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington (2019); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida (2019)."--colophon
Umfang:149 pages (some folded) illustrations (chiefly color) 20 cm
ISBN:9781938221231
1938221230