Details

Subject(s)

• Vicuña, Cecilia—Translations into English [Browse]
• Performance art—Chile [Browse]

Related name

Alcalá, Rosa [Browse]

Publisher

Ugly Duckling Presse [Browse]

Related work(s)

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, [Browse]

Series

• Dossier (Ugly Duckling Presse) [More in this series]
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts. [More in this series]
• Dossier / Ugly Duckling Presse

Notes

• "The first overview of the work of this seminal multi-disciplinary artist, Spit temple 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." --P. [4] of cover.
• Printed in an edition of 1,000.
• Perfect binding, paper cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Performing Memory: An Autobiography
• Poetics of Performance: Two Poems
• El Quasar / The Quasar
• K' isa/Alango / A Vibratory Disorder
• The Quasars: Selected Oral Performances (1995-2002)
• The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York City, 1995
• Barnard College, New York City, 1996
• Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1998
• Art in General, New York City, 1999
• Krannert Art Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
• University of Minnesota's Rarig Center, Minneapolis, 2001 (performance notes)
• Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI, 2001
• The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York City, 2002
• Pierogi Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2002 (performance notes)
• Listening: Responses
• "Handspun Syllables/Handwoven Words" / Dennis Tedlock
• "Mapping the Root of Response" / Jena Osman
• "On Behalf of Seeds/Seed Speaking" / Linda Duke
• "Reademe the Binary" / Maria Damon
• "University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, April 11, 2002: A Transcription/`Cardinal Formants: Emplacement, Tangence, Witness, Rapt'" / Kenneth Sherwood
• "Link, Link, Link Please" / Juliana Spahr
• "Terriloquis Victus Dictis::Species Patefactast Verbis" / Rodrigo Toscano
• "At Play in the Psyche of Cycles: Cecilia Vicuna's Endlessnesses" / Edwin Torres
• "She's So Fine: Cecilia Vicuna's Instan" / Nada Gordon.

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ISBN

• 1937027031
• 9781937027032

OCLC

801442308

RCP

H - S

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