On Latin American Cities...

So every now and then you would have these huge rallies with millions of people rushing about in the city. Now, all of that course has changed and those... that pride or triumph has been replaced by the new American one which is something like greed, shock or... and... of course... um... guns for everybody so…or cars for everybody, or whatever things for everybody. So the big cities have become cities of cars that are not going anywhere, that are not leaving anywhere. So you try to get from one place to the other and this…is totally impossible. And when you have the image of how the cities used to be-where a million people they are shouting-for a million people wanting to change the world, and now you have a million people trying to get nowhere.

Explore Cecilia Vicuña's work in greater detail through the following essays and audio clip:

On Latin American Cities
"Spinning the Common Thread" by Lucy R. Lippard
"Cryptic Weaving" by Hugo Méndez-Ramírez