BEGIN:VCALENDAR X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago PRODID:-//University of Iowa//Events 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T141719Z DTSTART:20190215T163000 DTEND:20190215T183000 SUMMARY:Cecilia Vicuña\, poetry reading DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker\, and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world\, including ecological destruction\, human rights\, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she went into exile in the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating "precarious works" and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile\, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard."\n\nHer multi-dimensional works begin as a poem\, an image that morphs into a film\, a song\, a sculpture\, or a collective performance. These ephemeral\, site-specific installations in nature\, streets\, and museums combine ritual and assemblage. She calls this impermanent\, participatory work “lo precario” (the precarious): transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her paintings of early 1970s de-colonized the art of the conquerors and the "saints" inherited from the Catholic Church\, to create irreverent images of the heroes of the revolution.\n\n\nhttps://events.uiowa.edu/23465 LOCATION:Dey House\, Frank Conroy Reading Room\, 507 North Clinton Street\, Iowa City\, IA 52245 UID:edu.uiowa.events-prod-23465 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker\, and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world\, including ecological destruction\, human rights\, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she \;went into \;exile in the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating "precarious works" and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile\, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard."
\n\nHer multi-dimensional works begin as a poem\, an image that morphs into a film\, a song\, a sculpture\, or a collective performance. These ephemeral\, site-specific installations in nature\, streets\, and museums combine ritual and assemblage. She calls this impermanent\, participatory work “lo precario” (the precarious): \;transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her paintings of early 1970s de-colonized the art of the conquerors and the "saints" inherited from the Catholic Church\, to create irreverent images of the heroes of the revolution.
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