Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Includes drawings by the writer. Cecilia Vicuña's INSTAN is composed in handwritten lines that move across the page with the instantaneous feeling of marks in a private journal, the book transmits the energy of her performative works, where thread and poetic lines play at being one. The word/drawings are certain and fragile. In their power to preserve and transform, they offer hope in art and daily speech for radical change. "Cecilia Vicuña, born and raised in Santiago de Chile, has been an exile since the early 1970s. Vicuna has never accepted the boundaries between cultural disciplines, creating a terrain of her own..."--Lucy Lippard, The Precarious: The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

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/poem Kon Kon Pi was included in the ON LINE exhibition at MoMA in 2010. Soy Yos: Antología, l966- 2006 was published by Lom Ediciones, Chile in 2011. She co-edited The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). Her book Chanccani Quipu, a quipu edition of 32 copies, is forthcoming from Granary Books in 2012. Spit Temple: Selected Oral Performances of Cecilia Vicuña is also forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.

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