{"product_id":"cecilia-vicuna-about-to-happen","title":"Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eText by Andrea Andersson, Lucy Lippard, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMacarena Gómez-Barris\u003cbr\u003eInterview by Julia Bryan-Wilson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout to Happen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In this artist's book, Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña weaves personal and ancestral memory while summoning the collective power to confront the economic disparities and environmental crises of the 21st century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollecting the detritus that washes up on shore, Vicuña assembles out of the refuse tiny \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eprecarios\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ebasuritas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—little sculptures held together with nothing more than string and wire, which she sometimes makes as offerings to be reclaimed by the sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout to Happen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces a decades-long practice that has refused categorical distinctions and thrived within the confluences of conceptual art, land art, feminist art, performance and poetry. Vicuña's nuanced visual poetics—operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile—transforms the discarded into the elemental, paying acute attention to the displaced, the marginalized and the forgotten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSiglio Press, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover, 160 pages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8 x 8 inches \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Siglio Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137003688016,"sku":"9781938221231","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0035\/4502\/files\/AbouttoHappen.jpg?v=1776560778","url":"https:\/\/mocastore.org\/products\/cecilia-vicuna-about-to-happen","provider":"MOCA Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}