Cecilia Vicuña: Living Quipu

Chilean-born, New York–based artist Cecilia Vicuña stages a participatory meditative performance in conjunction with the opening of her exhibition, “Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu.”

“Living Quipu” represents a rebirthing of the quipu—an ancient Andean mode of writing, record keeping, and remembering through an intricate system of knotted cords that was banned by the Spanish in colonial times. Throughout the performance, Vicuña weaves and wraps the audience in raw wool, poetry, and song, channeling the power of this lost language into a new vehicle for connection. For Vicuña, each person becomes a knot and vessel for memory in her “quipu for the future.”

Friday, 万辛克 19, 2018