Cecilia Vicuña: Word Weapons
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Inga Picks Language & Poetry
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Inga Picks Language & Poetry
1/7
2/7
3/7
4/7
5/7
6/7
7/7
Cecilia Vicuña: Word Weapons
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Inga Picks Language & Poetry
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Inga Picks Language & Poetry
This book brings together the Palabrarmasseries by the artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago, Chile). A neologism that translates to “word weapons”or “word arms,” Palabrarmas imagine new ways of seeing language. By taking the form of collages, silkscreens, drawings, poems, fabric banners, cut-outs, mixed media installations, and street actions, Vicuña brings together many aspects of her practice in poetry, activism, and visual art, allowing new meanings to emerge. This book presents a range of palabrarmas, created over the past four decades, in color for the first time.
Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman. With new essays by Mónica de la Torre, Carla Macchiavello, and Cecilia Vicuña and reprinted texts by René Daumal, Robert Randall, Simón Rodríguez. Cecilia Vicuña is an artist, poet and activist currently based between New York and Santiago.
