CORRESPONDING SITES

Corresponding Sites
Performance
Archival Ink Jet Prints
12 x 16 IN | 30.5 x 40.6 CM
2021

Cecilia Vicuña defines her precario sculptures as a way of being in the land, a series of gestures and site specific performance installations created  collaboratively with the elements. Corresponding Sites uses the precario as a method of performance making and drawing in space to explore the choreography of viral replication with its ribboned rna strands. This 30 minute performance begins with themes related to viral transmission - beginning with center, moving to water and concluding with wind. Working in collaboration with sound artist and composer Shanna Sordahl, Corresponding Sites plays with tension, timbre, noise and vocals, alongside the sound of ribbon and the lake itself. Allegra and Sordhal perform compositions which work with viral musical time as discovered by MIT, creating a public offering that explores what we can learn from the coronavirus structure rather than only fighting it.

Performance/Vocal: Indira Allegra
Performance/Cello: Shanna Sordahl
Audio Recording: Danishta Rivero
Mixing & Mastering: Shanna Sordahl

Commissioned by The Wattis Institute as part of a Cecilia Vicuña is on our Mind
Photos by Chani Bockwinkel