Cecilia Vicuña

Death of the Pollinators (2021)

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. ...

Disappeared Quipu (2018)

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. ...

Night of the Species (2017)

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. ...

A Living Knot (2017)

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 ...

SemiYa (2015)

Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015. ...

Fire Over Water (2014)

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 performan ...

Quipu Austral (2012)

Río Mapocho (2012)

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. ...

Umbílico (2012)

El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York (2011)

Quipu Viscera (2011)

Kon Kon (2010)

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. ...

Lápiz en Bote (2009)

The artist precariously films her "basuritas" made from debris as the sea removes them. ...

Vaso de Leche (2008)

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. ...

Parti Si Pasion (2008)

Pigments are scattered across the asphalt in Manhattan, a thread is tied by poet Cecilia Vicuña between the present and the past. ...

Yellow Soto (2007)

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. ...

Paracas (1983)

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. ...

What Is Poetry to You? (1980)

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 pe ...

Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada (1980)

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 T ...

SemiYa (2015)

Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015. ...

What Is Poetry to You? (1980)

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 pe ...