Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet/artist who sings and works at the precarious edge of what’s known and not known. Born in Chile, she now lives in New York.
Con con/Kon kon was an ancient ritual site, connecting visually the Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, to the sea. It was a fishing town for millennia, a site where Sonido Rajado, Torn Sound flourished: a complex dance of flutists who play in opposing (entangled) pairs for their sound to clash, creating harmonics created by sound itself. A dissonance where all sounds become one, healing people and earth.
My art was born at the meeting point of two waters, the Aconcagua River and the Pacific Ocean, at a site the first peoples of Chile called Con cón: “Water water”.
