. . . I was struck with the usual fear. He was about to leave. I never knew when I'd see him again. Every time could be the last time.
Lisa Taddeo, from Animal
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For National Poetry Month, we want to post Cecilia Vicuña’s “lo precario” work, which she has been creating since the mid-1960s.
“The poem is not speech, not in the earth, not on paper, but in the crossing and union of the three in the place that is not.” - Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña (1948 -) is a poet, artist, painter, 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 has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. […]
Vicuña’s 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. (from the artist’s website: http://www.ceciliavicuna.com)
Text for Image 2:
Tunquén
The meeting of sun and bone
Is a path the hand knows how to follow
Dust of orgasmic joy
I laughed, knowing what was first
Vicuña’s exhibition “Brain Forest Quipu” at Tate Modern recently closed on April 16.
The precarious : the art and poetry of Cecilia Vicuña
Edited by M. Catherine de Zegher
Added t. pg. title: Quipoem
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c1997.
HOLLIS number: 990076946700203941
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¿Puede existir la justicia en el ámbito del trabajo digital?
“Most of us like to talk
about freedom in the
abstract, even claim that
it’s the most important
thing for anyone to fight or
die for, but we don’t think
a lot about what being
free or practicing freedom
might actually mean”.
David Graeber
“A la mayoría de nosotres nos gusta hablar
sobre la libertad en abstracto, incluso afirmar que es lo más importante por la que hay que luchar o morir, pero no pensamos
mucho en lo que significa ser libre o practicar la libertad
puede significar realmente.
David Graeber
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Start of my new insta comic series, work title: *Precarity* Please note that this is a work of fiction and any similarities to real persons, places or events are purely coincidental. #comic #instacomic #precarious #bullshitjobs #narracióngráfica #graphicnarrative #precariedad (hier: Precariti) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgKSUUtDsiM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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A precarious but cool cupcake display
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How could she have become so blindly attached to what she could so suddenly and so completely lose?
Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil
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Cecilia Vicuña created this work in Bogotá, Colombia on September 26, 1979 to protest the distribution of contaminated milk. Vicuña staged a street action by tying red yarn around a glass of milk. When the yarn was pulled from a distance, the milk spilled onto the street. The following poem was written on the sidewalk in front of the home of Simon Bolivar:
A Glass of Milk
“The cow
Is the continent
whose milk
(blood)
is being
spilled.
What are we doing
to our life?”
The precarious : the art and poetry of Cecilia Vicuña
Edited by M. Catherine de Zegher
Added t. pg. title: Quipoem
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c1997.
HOLLIS number: 990076946700203941
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