12 May 2015 

Cecilia Vicuña, the Chilean visual artist, poet and filmmaker, has recently delivered the spring semester lectures in the prestigious Messenger Lectures series at Cornell University. She took as her titles: Quipu and the Quanta of Language, The Poem is the Animal and Awareness is the Art: Artists for Democracy and Other Stories. Established in 1924, the Messenger Lectures continue to be presented by some of the world’s leading scholars and public figures.