Participate in the opening of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen with an improvisational performance by the artist, the creation of a living quipu. Inspired by the ancient Andean writing tradition of “talking knots,” the living quipu will celebrate tactile knowledge and interconnections across the cosmos. This performance is a dynamic form of storytelling in which unspun wool and language weave a vibrant matrix of connections and possibility.
Following the collective performance, unpack ideas and contexts informing the artist’s process in a conversation between Vicuña and exhibition co-curators Andrea Andersson and Julia Bryan-Wilson.
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Cecilia Vicuña. Photo: Daniela Aravena. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
![<p>Cecilia Vicuña (Chile, born 1947). <em>Balsa Snake Raft to Escape the Flood</em>, 2017. Site-specific installation with found materials sourced from New Orleans, Chile, and New York: debris, bamboo, willows, twigs, fishing line, beads, rope, net, styrofoam, plastic, and feathers. [Installation view, <em>Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen</em>, 2017. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.] Photo: Alex Marks.</p>](https://henryart.org/assets/img/Alex_Marks_CAC_Cecilia-Vicuna-6.jpg)