Homenaje a la Trayectoria: Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña es la primera artista chilena en recibir el premio León de Oro a la Trayectoria en la Bienal de Arte de Venecia.
Artista y activista vinculada al feminismo y las prácticas ancestrales ha nutrido el imaginario colectivo con sus quipus menstruales, obra efímera y poética sonora.
Te invitamos a recorrer su historia, proceso creativo y legado.
Entrevista realizada en marzo 2016.
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CRÉDITOS realización:
-Dirección: Ale Ruiz
-Cámara: Javiera Cortés
-Montaje: Patricio Soto-Aguilar

CRÉDITOS obra artística en orden de aparición:
Cecilia Vicuña, Rito por el Mapocho, 2019, ritual performance, Santiago de Chile, 11:24 min.

Cecilia Vicuña, Abre La Puerta Niñita [Open the Door Little Girl], 2011, video created from the home movies created by the artist's parents, Jorge Vicuña Lagarrigue and Norma Ramírez de Vicuña, in 8mm between 1949 and 1956. Filmed in Bellavista, Florida, south of Santiago, where Cecilia Vicuña grew up.

Cecilia Vicuña, Otoño [Autumn], excerpt from Saborami, 1973, Beau Geste Press, Devon, U.K. 152 pages, 8 x 6 ½”. Bilingual edition of 250 copies. Translated by the author with Felipe Ehrenberg.

Cecilia Vicuña, Otoño [Autumn], Sala Forestal, 1971, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

Cecilia Vicuña, Otoño [Autumn], 1971, gathering autumn leaves performance, Santiago, Chile.

Cecilia Vicuña, Precario/Precarious, 1983, performance, Arch Gallery, New York.

Cecilia Vicuña, Casa espiral [Spiral House], 1966. Site-specific performative installation, destroyed, Concón, Chile.

Cecilia Vicuña, No manifesto de la Tribu No [No Manifesto of the No Tribe], 1967, Santiago de Chile.

Tribu No, group portrait, photographer unknown.

Tribu No, group portrait, photographer unknown.

Tribu No, group portrait, photographer unknown.

John Dugger, Chile vencerá, 1974. Photo: John Dugger Archive. Private collection. Courtesy England & Co Gallery, London.

John Dugger, Chile vencerá, 1974. Photo: John Dugger Archive. Private collection. Courtesy England & Co Gallery, London.

Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña, 2014. Curated by Paulina Varas, Museo de la Memoria y Los Derechos Humanos and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, January-May 2014.

Artists for Democracy, 1974, installation view. Zanu banner by John Dugger. Part of the Arts Festival for Democracy in Chile, organized by AFD at the Royal College of Art, London, October 14, 1974.

Cecilia Vicuña, Lenin, 1972, oil on canvas, detail of La Ruca Abstracta, 1974, installation at the Arts Festival for Democracy in Chile, organized by AFD at the Royal College of Art, London, October 14, 1974.

John Dugger, Chile vencerá, 1974. Photo: John Dugger Archive. Private collection. Courtesy England & Co Gallery, London.

Cecilia Vicuña, ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? [What is Poetry to You?], Bogota, 1980, 16mm, 14 min, sound, transferred to video. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.

Cecilia Vicuña, cloud-net, 1998, video of street performance, New York, 7:18 min. Cinematography by Francesco Cincotta, edited by Chris Borkowski and Paige Saez.

Cecilia Vicuña, SemiYa, 2000, Gabriela Mistral, Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Gobierno de Chile. Filmed by Norma Ramirez Arenas and Jorge Vicuña Lagarrigue, parents of the artist.

Cecilia Vicuña, Saborami, 1973, Beau Geste Press, Devon, U.K. 152 pages, 8 x 6 ½”. Bilingual edition of 250 copies. Translated by the author with Felipe Ehrenberg.

Cecilia Vicuña, Siete Poemas, 1979, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá. Chapbook, in Spanish. 16 pages, 8 x 6 ½".

Cecilia Vicuña, Precario/Precarious, 1983, Tanam Press, New York. 80 pages, 20 ½ x 5 ½". Bilingual edition of 50 copies (cloth), 1,000 (paper). Translated by Anne Twitty.

Cecilia Vicuña, PALABRARmas, 1984, El Imaginero, Buenos Aires. Letterpress edition in Spanish. 96 pages, 7 ½ x 5 ½".

Cecilia Vicuña, Samara, 1987, Ediciones Embalaje, Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia. Limited edition, Spanish. 22 pages, 8 ½ x 8 ½". Book design by Omar Rayo.

Cecilia Vicuña, LA Wik’Una, 1990, Francisco Zegers Editor, Santiago, Chile. Trade edition, Spanish, 116 pages, 8 x 5 ½”.

Cecilia Vicuña, Palabra e Hilo / Word & Thread, 1996, Morning Star Publications, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 22 pages, 8 ½ x 8 ½”, bilingual edition of 300 copies. Translated by Rosa Alcalá.

Cecilia Vicuña, cloud-net, 1999, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center / Diverseworks Artspace / Art in General, New York, Houston, Buffalo. 108 pages, 10 x 8", 1,000 copies.

Cecilia Vicuña, Instan, 2002, Kelsey St. Press, Berkeley. 88 pages, 9 x 6".

Cecilia Vicuña, i tu, 2004, Tsé-Tsé, Buenos Aires. Nuevo Offset printing 5 ½ x 8", 300 copies.

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