{"title":"Cecilia Vicuña","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"spit-temple","title":"Spit Temple","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Vicuña\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe first overview of the work of this seminal multi-disciplinary artist, \u003cem\u003eSPIT TEMPLE\u003c\/em\u003e collects texts and transcriptions of Cecilia Vicuña’s uncategorizable improvised performances, which combine singing, movement, chants, and stories. Also included are a critical introduction by Rosa Alcalá, a poetic memoir by Vicuña addressing her life in performance, images from Vicuña’s extensive personal archive, and response pieces by Maria Damon, Linda Duke, Nada Gordon, Jena Osman, Kenneth Sherwood, Juliana Spahr, Dennis Tedlock, Edwin Torres, and Rodrigo Toscano. A reading from the book is available online \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.commonpodcast.com\/home\/2018\/11\/20\/episode-61-rosa-alcal-translation-series-ep-1\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet, artist, and filmmaker. The author of twenty poetry books published in Europe, Latin America and the U.S., she performs and exhibits her work widely. A precursor of conceptual, impermanent art and the improvisatory oral performance, her work deals with the interactions between language, earth and textiles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46901969191242,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/6d123438be80ef6b680811f04d4e01a4.jpg?v=1689769573"},{"product_id":"saborami","title":"Saborami","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Vicuña\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCecilia Vicuña created \u003cem\u003eSaborami\u003c\/em\u003e in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England, in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led Beau Geste Press. It was one of the first artistic responses to the violence of the fascist junta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the book's original publication and of the coup in Chile, \u003cem\u003eSaborami: Expanded facsimile edition\u003c\/em\u003e by Cecilin Vicuña, is edited by Amy Tobin and Luke Roberts, and contains rarely seen archival material from Vicuña's time in London, and her role in Artists for Democracy in Chile and other solidarity campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558644302154,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/CV_Cover_temp-835x1024.jpg?v=1707140244"},{"product_id":"word-weapons","title":"Word Weapons","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Vicuña\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis book brings together the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePalabrarmas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e series by the Chilean-born artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948). Images of these works―each a powerful juxtaposition of color, poetry and politics―appear alongside new essays and historical references chosen with the artist. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePalabrarmas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, a neologism that translates to \"word weapons\" or \"word arms,\" imagine new ways of seeing language. Taking the form of collages, silkscreens, drawings, poems, fabric banners, cutouts, mixed-media installations and street actions, Vicuña’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePalabarmas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e bring together her work in poetry, activism, and visual art. Each one unpacks and deconstructs single words to reveal other words hiding within them, allowing new meanings to emerge. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe artist began making these visual anagrams while in exile in London and Bogotá after the Pinochet-led coup of 1973 in Chile and has always seen them as a form of liberation―as a way to \"open up minds by opening up words,\" as she puts it. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePalabarmas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e have taken on new relevance in today’s political climate and appeared on the streets during Chile’s 2019 revolution as protest signs. This book presents a range of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePalabrarmas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e in color for the first time, with new essays by Mónica de la Torre, Carla Macchiavello, Cecilia Vicuña and Jeanne Gerrity, and reprinted texts by René Daumal, Robert Randall and Simón Rodríguez.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47573958033738,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/512lNgtDXwL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1707766306"},{"product_id":"deer-book-libre-venado","title":"Deer Book \/ Libre Venado","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Vicuña\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg’s translation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlower World Variations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which Cecilia Vicuña first encountered in 1985, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeer Book \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrings together nearly forty years of the artist’s poetry, “poethical” translations, and drawings related to cosmologies and mythologies surrounding the deer, and sacrificial dance in cultures around the world. Woven like one of her quipu installations, Vicuña’s texts—which include original compositions in Spanish as well as English translations by Daniel Borzutzky—become meditations on translation, not just of the sacred nature of this animal but on how our understandings of ceremony and ritual are transformed, by this ongoing process. Taken as inspiration rather than conundrum, the impossibility of translation opens up poetic possibilities for Vicuña as she continues her lifelong exploration into the nature of communication across eras and distant lands, languages and shared symbols within Indigenous spiritualities. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48878527316298,"sku":"","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/81dP4e7jX8L._AC_UF894_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1721481874"},{"product_id":"mapping-the-silence","title":"Mapping the Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Vicuña \u0026amp; James O’Hearn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished to coincide with Cecilia Vicuña’s \u003ci\u003eReverse Migration: A Poetic Journey\u003c\/i\u003e at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (November 6 2025–July 5 2026), \u003ci\u003eMappinng the Silence \u003c\/i\u003egathers poems, photographs, drawings, and conversations by Vicuña and her partner James O’Hearn. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62337540718922,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/MAPPING-THE-SILENCE-FRONT-COVER.jpg?v=1784891074"}],"url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/collections\/cecilia-vicuna.oembed","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}