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Cecilia Vicuña
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LINEbreak Reading at the Charles Morrow and Associates Studio, New York City, September 1995
Cecilia improvises a song in Quechua (0:30): RealAudio
Cecilia performs a multilingual quazar (1:40): RealAudio
Water (3:00): MP3
Complete recording (28:59): MP3
Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021
For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing.
Performance and Reading at Princeton University, with pianist/composer Ricardo Gallo, April 4, 2018
Complete recording (01:20:27): MP3
Video available here.
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Complete reading (1:27:09): MP3
- Opening remarks by Al Filreis (3:07): MP3
- Introduction by Laynie Brown (11:06): MP3
- "You made me cry..." (12:39): MP3
- Viewing of "Fire over water" (7:13): MP3
- Fragment of "Quipu Mapocho" (6:54): MP3
- Discussion of two videos (6:57): MP3
- "Colliding and not colliding at the same time" (3:55): MP3
- "Last night, I went to..." (3:43): MP3
- Discussion of shifting attentions (2:49): MP3
- Discussion of aesthetics as change and despair (8:28): MP3
- Discussion of the internet, mind, and glaciers (11:51): MP3
Reading for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, April 15, 2016
Complete recording available here.
in association with the exhibition "The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books"
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Complete performance (46:35): MP3
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Reading and Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Poems for the Millennium Vol. 5, The Poetry Project, October 14, 2015
Complete reading (23:08): MP3
- On Jerome Rothenberg (1:56): MP3
- Reading "Incantation for Jaguar Macaw Madness" (6:30): MP3
- Reading from "Wild Ways" by Ikkyū (4:51): MP3
- Reading "Hypocrite Women" by Denise Levertov (2:58): MP3
- Reading poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (3:58): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, April 4, 2015
Complete reading (41:28): MP3
- Introduction (3:12): MP3
- "I said, when the talk of the wind..." (4:44): MP3
- "I actually came in my last..." (2:57): MP3
- "The guanacos..." (4:08): MP3
- "So this is the story..." (5:06): MP3
- "I felt so tired before coming here..." (2:30): MP3
- "Poetry is an invitation..." (3:25): MP3
- On dirty poems and the old (1:02): MP3
- "Poema purtiana" (0:54): MP3
- "Puritan poem" (translated) (0:37): MP3
- "Teresa la imbécil" (Teresa the Idiot) (2:52): MP3
- From Kisa Alango - Cecilia Vicuña (0:59): MP3
- Alba del habla/mother of time (4:38): MP3
- Luz y del qué/cúal es nuestra verdad? (8:20): MP3
- Instan, a journey inside words, an oral improvisation (5:27): MP3
Recorded by Ross Craig.
kunter ko (water condor), 2012
Alba de Habla, Dawn of Speech
poems for the spirit of water, composed in response to the destruction of glaciers in Chile
1. Apu miski yawar (Powerful sweet blood) (2:31): MP3
2. Kunter Niño (Condor child) (4:42): MP3
3. El Hueco, el sonido, el hueso (The hollow, the sound, the bone) (1:32): MP3
4. Ballena azul, Oro de oir (Blue whale click, Hearing is the gold (3:36): MP3
5. Oro es tu hilar (Gold is your spinning) (2:29): MP3
6. El Augau es el oro (Water is the gold) (2:27): MP3
7. Tu ira es el oro (Your rage is the gold) (1:45): MP3
8. Quipu menstrual (Menstrual Quipu) (1:32): MP3
9. Cóndor conrdón (Condor cord) (1:15): MP3
10. Kuntur Ko (Water condor) (3:05): MP3
11. Apaéme con el cristal (Pair me with crystal) (1:26): MP3
12. Agüita (Little Water) (2:28): MP3
13. Melinko Lauen (Medicine mist of the waterfall (2:13): MP3
14. Alba del halba (Dawn of Speech) (9:41): MP3
15. Na ni ná Compartir (No sharing, 2nd part of Alba del Halba) (5:04): MP3
Recorded at NYU's Department of Recorded Music, Tisch, 2006
produced and engineered by Balan Villanueva
mastered by Randy Merrill at Masterdisk, NYC
special thanks to: Paul Geluso, Jim Anderson, Noah Simon, Alex de Turk, Balan Villanueva, Randy Merrill, and James O'Hern
cover photo: César Paternosto
graphic design: Diane Bertolo
Torn Sound Records
Complete segment (31:45): MP3
- Introduction by Leonard Shwartz (1:03): MP3
- Vicuña discusses writing "Saborami" (1:54): MP3
- Discussion of language in "Saborami" (1:44): MP3
- "Mastaba" (0:51): MP3
- "Solitude" (0:31): MP3
- Fragment of "Expedition of the Bibliotecarios" (1:53): MP3
- "Puesta de sol" (0:57): MP3
- Discussion of paintings in "Saborami" (1:07): MP3
- "Pain things and explanation" (5:10): MP3
- Discussion of readings (0:48): MP3
- Discussion of relationship between "I" and "We" (0:48): MP3
- Discussion of indigenous poetry (2:25): MP3
- Reading indigenous inspired poetry from "Saborami" (1:09): MP3
- Discussion of "Saborami's" new edition (5:21): MP3
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Complete recording (36:41): MP4
- Introduction (2:23): MP3
- Untitled (2:58): MP3
- We All (4:32): MP3
- As A Child (2:59): MP3
- The Primary Echoes (4:47): MP3
Complete reading (19:08): MP3
Complete recording (1:24:40): MP3
Excerpt, discussing ritual in relation to poetry (6:45): YouTube
"Knotations on a Quipu"
- Introduction by Steve Clay (3:07): MP3
- Talk (40:25): MP3
- Discussion (15:39): MP3
Complete recording (1:00:32): MP3
- To The Awakening of a Trans-human Inheritance (1:42): MP3
- So This (2:30): MP3
- For The Goddess, Her City, And The Marriage of Her Son and Daughter (3:07): MP3
- When I Said (2:14): MP3
- The Hair, the Hair, the Hair (1:55): MP3
- The Wall Street Inferno (2:30): MP3
Complete reading (16:09):MP3
Complete reading (17:15): MP3
- Introduction by Jerome Rothenberg (1:03): MP3
- Vicuña sings and chants (5:06): MP3
- "Maria Sabina" (5:16): MP3
- My Body Knows the Dark (8:56): MP3
- They Look Nice From Here (2:04): MP3
- La Masacre De Un Pueblo (Partial) (1:13): MP3
- The People's Waterfall (3:32): MP3
- When This Language Disappeared (1:30): MP3
- Untitled (2:30): MP3
- When The Tsunami Begins (7:55): MP3
- On "The Economist" Article (1:11): MP3
Complete recording (29:53): MP3
Writers Without Borders Reading, Kelly Writers House, April 15, 2008
Complete reading (50:23): MP3
- Introduction by Al Filreis (2:47): MP3
- Introduction by Charles Bernstein (6:43): MP3
- Cecilia begins reading (5:04): MP3
- "That was a vicuna thing..." (1:32): MP3
- "Dis solving into union" (1:32): MP3
- "A word moves a beat..." (3:56): MP3
- "Experience must be transitory" (4:02): MP3
- Cecilia talks about Felix Bernstein and reads what she left out (4:02): MP3
- "Concha de Carey" (2:06): MP3
- "Mother of pearl..." (1:03): MP3
- Discussion of space and time (1:50): MP3
- "Oír Orar" (2:46): MP3
- "I heard of the new hit..." (1:55): MP3
- Introduction of "Nazca: The Desert Line" (4:27): MP3
- "Nazca: The Desert Line" (abridged) (1:46): MP3
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Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia came to the last poem of her Kelly Writers House reading. She weaves and unweaves the
strands of the poetics of the Americas, redrawing the borders
of our poetics with the string-like lines of her words, making
imaginary fabrics in which we are embraced.
(mp4, 2 min. 8 sec., 47.5 mb)
mtChondrial Eve (Mother of Threads) at Art Radio WPS1, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, March 16, 2008
Complete recording (21:31): MP3
Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics #26, "Word in Words," March 8, 2004
- Introduction (0:46): MP3
- Reading from Water Poems (4:20): MP3
- Water and fluidity of language and culture in poetry (2:37): MP3
- Influence of Quechua language (2:31): MP3
- Jose Maria Argueda's influence on Vicuna's work (1:49): MP3
- Performance of poetry (1:12): MP3
- Reading a poem performed for St. Mark's Poetry Project in 2002 (5:56): MP3
- Form and content of performance poetry (1:25): MP3
- Discussing current work (0:52): MP3
- Overlaps of Quechua and Chinese artistic production (5:07): MP3
- Comments on upcoming work; conclusion of first half (2:52): MP3
Complete reading (29:28): MP3
Wednesday Night Series: Ammiel Alcalay, Cecilia Vicuña, St. Mark's Church, NY, May 15, 2002
Library of Congress recording (1:03:26): link
Seminar with Dennis Tedlock, SUNY Buffalo, March 19, 2001
Part 1 (1:14:09): MP3
- Introduction (2:47): MP3
- "Hoy considencio" (11:11): MP3
- Discussion of Gabriela Mistral (1:43): MP3
- Vicuña recalls two stories (3:21): MP3
- Q&A and discussion (54:15): MP3>
Part 2 (2:25): MP3
- Introduction (Barbara Cole) (10:18): MP3
- Untitled (4:25): MP3
- She (2:00): MP3
- cloud-net (5:42): MP3
- Equinox (4:02): MP3
- Comisura (2:06): MP3
- Plaid Skirt (5:39): MP3
- Intervariant (3:27): MP3
- For The One Who Makes The Pottery (2:41): MP3
- A Shifting Dune (1:45): MP3
- Word and Thread (2:48): MP3
- Thanks (0:36): MP3
Complete reading (47:52):
MP3
Introduction by Elise Paschen, who is welcomed by Charles Bernstein
- Introduction (8:27): MP3
- And if I devoted my life (3:51): MP3
- Entering (2:55): MP3
- From "Palabrarmas" (2:08): MP3
- Word (1:35): MP3
- La Luz (3:43): MP3
- (Untitled) (1:57): MP3
- The Poem is the Animal (0:13): MP3
- From "Unravelling Words and Weaving Water" (6:24): MP3
- From "Unravelling Words and Weaving Water" (0:59): MP3
- Goodbye to Hummingbird (2:27): MP3
- Basurame (1:53): MP3
Complete recording (37:48): MP3
Complete reading (51:27): MP3
- Introduction (0:58): MP3
- Song for the snow to go away (2:22): MP3
- On myth (5:11): MP3
- From "Unravelling Words and Weaving Water" (8:19): MP3
Complete recording (16:56): MP3
Reading by Sandra Maria Esteves and Cecilia Vicuna, St. Mark’s Church, NY, December 13, 1989
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (41:37): link
- Side B (22:20): link
Also of interest:
- I'll Drown My Book, a celebration of the I'll Drown My Book anthology held at the Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2012
These sound recordings are being made available
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belong to Cecilia Vicuña. Used with the permission of Cecilia Vicuña. © 2018 Cecilia Vicuña.
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