Name: Cecilia Vicuña Lecture
Start: 2026-04-07T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-07T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Art Institute of Chicago

$Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a Lecture$

Join us for a lecture by artist Cecilia Vicuña followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean visual artist, poet, filmmaker, and activist based in New York. She created the autonomous concept of "Precarious Art" in the mid-1960s in Chile to name what disappears. Her poetic work in space, performance, and visual arts is considered a decolonizing vision that anticipates ecofeminism. Vicuña has re-invented the ancient Pre-Columbian quipu system of non-writing with knots through ritual acts that weave the urban landscape, rivers, and oceans, as well as people, to re-construct a sense of unity and awareness of interconnectivity. These works bridge art and poetry as a way of, in Vicuña’s words, “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.”
This event is free, non-ticketed and open to the general public.
Learn more at saic.edu/vap
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access
Image Credit: Cecilia Vicuña, Cloud-net, 1998, street performance, New York. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by César Paternosto. © 2025 Cecilia Vicuña