Chilean-born, New York-based artist Cecilia Vicuña stages a participatory meditative performance for the closing of her exhibition, “Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” on view in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Living Quipu II represents a rebirthing of the quipu—an ancient Andean mode of writing, record keeping, and remembering through an intricate system of knotted cords that was banned by the Spanish in colonial times. Throughout the performance, Vicuña weaves and wraps the audience in raw wool, poetry, and song, channeling the power of this lost language into a new vehicle for connection. For Vicuña, each person becomes a knot and vessel for memory in her “quipu for the future.”

Due to limited capacity in the gallery, participation in the performance will take place on a first-come, first-served basis.