Samborami (Chainlinks)
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, visual artist, and filmmaker born in Santiago de Chile. The author of twenty books of poetry, she exhibits and performs widely in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Her multidimensional works begin as a poem, an image or a line that morphs into a film, a song, a sculpture or a collective performance. She calls this impermanent, participatory work "lo precario" (the precarious), transformative acts or "metaphors in space" which bridge the gap between art and life, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her film/poemKon Kon Piwas included in the ON LINE exhibition at MoMA in 2010.Soy Yos: Antología, l966- 2006was published by Lom Ediciones, Chile in 2011. She co-editedThe Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry(2009). Her bookChanccani Quipu, a quipu edition of 32 copies, is forthcoming from Granary Books in 2012.Spit Temple: Selected Oral Performances of Cecilia Vicuñais also forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.