{"id":1697,"date":"2010-09-26T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2010-09-26T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T16:14:47","slug":"display-your-privates-to-flax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/display-your-privates-to-flax\/","title":{"rendered":"display your privates to flax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CECILIA VICU\u00c3\u2018A \/ TR. ROSA ALCALA<br \/>\nD e a t h  o f  t h e  p o l l i n a t o r s<\/p>\n<p>ecopoetics, volume 1, page 107<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hovering around Cecilia V&#8217;s work for a few weeks, but just watching not engaging. <\/p>\n<p>Online I&#8217;ve found:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/CECILIA-VICUNA\/275500021706?ref=sgm\">Cecilia V&#8217;s facebook page<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceciliavicuna.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ceciliavicuna.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5hcNjMkVJr4\" target=\"_blank\">video &#8211; installation &#8220;Water Cry&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T2sRC_X2u-I\" target=\"_blank\">video &#8211; Kon K\u00c3\u00b3n, una pel\u00c3\u00adcula de Cecilia Vicu\u00c3\u00b1a El Ciudadano TV \/ Chile<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spiterature.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/poesia-policia-or-true-tale-of-how.html\" target=\"_blank\">story &#8211; <em>+ Poes\u00c3\u00ada, &#8211; Polic\u00c3\u00ada, or, The true tale of how Cecilia saved me from the overlong arm of the law<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/10689794\" target=\"_blank\">video about a magazine &#8211; <em>El Corno Emplumado &#8211; a story from the sixties<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After all this texture, sound, color, motion, narrative &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>black and white text on the page seems so limited. <\/p>\n<p>But I returned to the (virtual) page this morning to try again to link in. It&#8217;s a way to participate in the solemnity. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Europe, women<br \/>\ndisplayed their privates<br \/>\nto flax<\/p>\n<p>At the sight of vulvas<br \/>\nthe plants grew<br \/>\nwith great velocity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I enjoyed these stanzas the most. <\/p>\n<p>One to bring in Europe. The puzzle of what is &#8220;indigenous.&#8221; I am indigenous to Europe if you go back far enough. I am concerned about the stance of children of colonists &#8211; what is there for us to do or say?<\/p>\n<p>Second to bring in women. Feminism was at one time my lens through which I saw everything. I have strayed from that, with a sensation of defeat and exhaustion. This bit brought back a taste of it.<\/p>\n<p>Sexuality present in the poem. Linked with the solemnity of death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CECILIA VICU\u00c3\u2018A \/ TR. ROSA ALCALA D e a t h o f t h e p o l l i n a t o r s ecopoetics, volume 1, page 107 I&#8217;ve been&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecopoetics","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}