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- Title
“touch in transit”: Manifestation / Manifestación in Cecilia Vicuña’s cloud-net.
- Authors
Phillips Brown, Julie
- Abstract
With poems typeset in string-like arrangements, Cecilia Vicuña's cloud-net connects the poetic line with large-scale gallery installations of white woolen skeins. Together the poems and installations weave a textual and material web, incorporating not only different media, but also languages, feminine and domestic craft, history and fate, the World Wide Web, social networking, globalization, memory, and a mindfulness for the present. Vicuña's merging of verse, lyric, song, dance, sculpture, performance, and installation, comes in response to a world overwhelmed by the effects of globalization and ecological deterioration. As Vicuña and her readers touch and move their bodies among cloud-net's webs, they open a shared transitive space, reclaiming the original energy of universal genesis, and its potential to heal the destruction wrought since then.
- Subjects
VICUNA, Cecilia; POETRY (Literary form); INSTALLATION art exhibitions; GLOBALIZATION in art; FEMINISM in art
- Publication
Contemporary Women's Writing, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 3, p208
- ISSN
1754-1476
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/cww/vpr012