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In this bilingual collection, Vicuña and her translator, Rosa Alcalá, are artist witnesses to a natural world that is a storehouse of sacred words, seeds, threads and songs. Present everywhere, they are sources for a rebalancing in human relationships and for new forms of grace and healing. In Vicuña's vision, art is life and intimacy with it is transformative.--Publisher's description.

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"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."

Vicuña, Cecilia --- Interviews --- Art --- sculpture [visual works] --- drawing [image-making] --- ecology --- video art --- performance art --- found object sculpture --- site-specific works --- milieuverontreiniging --- klimaatverandering --- pollution --- artists' books [books] --- climate change --- Vicuña, Cecilia - Exhibitions --- Vicuña, Cecilia - Interviews

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From the 1970s to the present, Cecilia Vicuñas work has both visually and poetically engaged with rituals from Aboriginal Australia, South Africa, Paleolithic Europe, and pre-Columbian America that involve red-colored thread. The Chilean artists performances, site-specific installations, paintings, and drawings relate to the symbolic function of textile and language as well as the ritual dimension of menstrual blood in the construction of solidarity through femininity and maternity, to support and continue life. 

Appearing on the occasion of Vicuñas installation in Athens for documenta 14, Read Thread tells the story of the sanguine thread in Vicuñas work. A tension arises in the asymmetry of Andean weaving and the artists quipuslarge-scale immersive installations of thread, wool, and yarn that reference the pre-Columbian language of knotting, a type of weaving-as-writing. Vicuñas translation of the quipu into a spatial and performative poetics conveys the tension of ecological disaster and reparation as well as a bodily sense of the cosmic scale of landscape, history, and time.

Alongside documentation of Vicuñas quipus, this publication includes hybrid compositionspoetic texts and narrativeswritten by the artist especially for this project, often relating the works to their political and historical context. Essays by documenta 14 curator Dieter Roelstraete and art historian José de Nordenflycht Concha complete the book.

menstruatie --- Art --- vrouw in de kunst --- Vicuña, Cecilia --- Cecilia Vicuna --- Menstrual cycle in art --- Menstruation --- Women in art --- Feminism in art --- Menstrual cycle in art - Exhibitions --- Menstruation - In art - Exhibitions --- Women in art - Exhibitions --- Feminism in art - Exhibitions --- Vicuña, Cecilia - Exhibitions

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In Generations and Geographies in the Visual Achallenge of Arts: Feminist Readings the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. The book points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance. Griselda Pollock calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, diaspora and genocide.

Vicuña, Cecilia --- Sherman, Cindy --- Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Bracha --- Kollwitz, Käthe --- Jin-me Yoon --- Shimada, Yoshiko --- Mendieta, Ana --- Saville, Jenny --- Modersohn-Becker, Paula --- women [female humans] --- feminism --- vrouw in de kunst --- Art --- gender