[New York]

The Book As Performance: Cecilia Vicuña and Jen Bervin
November 17, 2015, 6:30 pm
at Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Jen Bervin is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and writer whose works often combine text and textiles with strong conceptual elements and a minimalist's eye for the poetic and essential. Her exibitions and books have been covered in national and international publications and media outlets such as NPR, The Nation, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and The New York Times. She has published three poetry books with UDP, including Nets, a book created within a palimpsest of Shakespeare's sonnets. Bervin has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, and Brown University, where she was a 2015 Fitt Artist-in-Residence. Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker. The author of twenty poetry books published in Europe, Latin America and the U.S., she performs and exhibits her work widely. A precursor of conceptual, impermanent art and the improvisatory oral performance, her work deals with the interactions between language, earth and textiles. Her most recent book is Saborami (Chain Links, 2011). Chanccani Quipu, an artist book, was recently published by Granary Books. She co-edited the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. Since 1980 she has divided her time between Chile and New York. More information here.