Cecilia Vicuña:Disappeared Quipu.You'll need to raise your volume to hear the strange voices in this artwork-Marcos
Disappeared Quipu is a poem in space-a time-based work in dialogue with historical quipus ("knot"in Quechua).
For millennia ancient people's of the Andes created quipus:complex record- keeping devices that served as an essential medium for reading and writing,registering and remembering,through an intricate system of knot making.In a career spanning five decades the artist, poet,and filmmaker Cecelia Vicuña has transformed the rich cultural legacies of the Andean region,reimagining the historical within jet contemporary practice.With feminism as a unifying theme and her ongoing series of work called Precarious (Precario) as a conceptual precursor,she explores the shifting nature of language and memory;the resilience of native people in the face of repression;and her own experiences,living in exile from her native Chile,following the military coup of 1973.
Vicuña has devoted a significant part of her artistic practice studying,interpreting,and reactivating the multidimensional potential of the quipu and it's ritual aspect,banned by the Spanish during their colonization of South America.Drawing from her indigenous heritage she creates installations and transformative ritual performances address issues of homogenization,ecological disasters,and human rights.Disappeared Quipu is part of decades-long explorations that often includes activation by the artist,in which she moves,alone or with others,among the fibers and knotted strands of the work,linking movement,sound and material to enact a physical relationship with the legacy embodied by the quipu.For Vicuña each knot of her "quipus for the future"bears witness to the connection and collective and expressive capacities of a language largely lost to history.
Created specially for this project calls attention to the disappearance of knowledge through the loss of a complex,ancient textile tradition.Vicuña's work links people of the past,present,and future in a collective art of resistance and remembrance celebrating the centuries long cultural legacy of the Andean people.
Cecilia Vicuña:Disappeared Quipu.You'll need to raise your volume to hear the strange voices in this artwork-Marcos
Disappeared Quipu is a poem in space-a time-based work in dialogue with historical quipus ("knot"in Quechua).
For millennia ancient people's of the Andes created quipus:complex record- keeping devices that served as an essential medium for reading and writing,registering and remembering,through an intricate system of knot making.In a career spanning five decades the artist, poet,and filmmaker Cecelia Vicuña has transformed the rich cultural legacies of the Andean region,reimagining the historical within jet contemporary practice.With feminism as a unifying theme and her ongoing series of work called Precarious (Precario) as a conceptual precursor,she explores the shifting nature of language and memory;the resilience of native people in the face of repression;and her own experiences,living in exile from her native Chile,following the military coup of 1973.
Vicuña has devoted a significant part of her artistic practice studying,interpreting,and reactivating the multidimensional potential of the quipu and it's ritual aspect,banned by the Spanish during their colonization of South America.Drawing from her indigenous heritage she creates installations and transformative ritual performances address issues of homogenization,ecological disasters,and human rights.Disappeared Quipu is part of decades-long explorations that often includes activation by the artist,in which she moves,alone or with others,among the fibers and knotted strands of the work,linking movement,sound and material to enact a physical relationship with the legacy embodied by the quipu.For Vicuña each knot of her "quipus for the future"bears witness to the connection and collective and expressive capacities of a language largely lost to history.
Created specially for this project calls attention to the disappearance of knowledge through the loss of a complex,ancient textile tradition.Vicuña's work links people of the past,present,and future in a collective art of resistance and remembrance celebrating the centuries long cultural legacy of the Andean people.