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🗓️ 16 December 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let me just very quickly make sure that the levels are okay. |
0:04.0 | Yeah, it's a good thing to do a little test because my voice is very soft. |
0:09.0 | Okay. |
0:10.0 | All right. |
0:13.0 | So, if you would just introduce yourself. |
0:18.0 | Cecilia Vigunya. |
0:20.0 | I'm an artist and poet from Chile, |
0:23.1 | and I have been in the US since 1980. |
0:26.7 | And what is the name of your exhibition? |
0:29.1 | Disappeared Kippu. |
0:37.2 | So one of the goals of the show, the Lonely Pallet, is to introduce people to art, usually who have never actually experienced the piece. |
0:48.6 | And I actually went to the Brooklyn Museum and saw the piece installed. |
0:57.2 | And I usually ask people to describe what it feels like to actually be there. And I can say from my own experience that I walked |
1:02.8 | into the room, I see these tremendous Kippoo hanging from the ceiling, but without knowing yet |
1:09.8 | what it is, I just see these incredible knots |
1:12.3 | coming down, and it's not what you expect out of knots. You know, knots, knots are usually |
1:18.4 | small and disruptive and kind of inconvenient, and the scale of this really was tremendous. |
1:24.7 | And then you walk around and you start hearing the whispers and music and voices |
1:29.6 | and you see the projections and they change from every angle. And I just wanted to ask right at the |
1:35.5 | outset, how would you describe what it feels like to walk into your own installation and And what immediately pops out at you |
1:47.0 | and compels you to stay and look around? |
1:50.0 | Well, I feel like being inside a womb. |
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