Run-time (hh:mm:ss): 00:07:06
Language:
In Spanish.
Synopsis: This is a video documentation of the writing of the poem 'La Vida Nueva' in New York City's sky. For this 'performance-acción'
or ‘poesía-acción’ (‘poetry-action’), five planes drew white smoke letters silhouetted over the blue sky. The poem was written
in Spanish as form of recognition for all the minority groups all over the world. The photographs of this ‘poesía-acción’
are included in the book ‘Anteparaíso’ (‘Anteparadise,’ a bilingual edition, University of California Press, 1986). Raúl Zurita
(Santiago de Chile, 1950) is a poet who, along with other artists, created the group CADA, Colectivo de Acciones de Arte,
in 1979. CADA developed a large format or ‘monumental’ public art, characterized for being political and as a form of resistance
against Pinochet’s dictatorship. Some of Zurita’s books are ‘Purgatorio’ (1979), ‘Anteparaíso’ (1982), ‘Canto a su amor desaparecido’
(1985), ‘La Vida Nueva’ (1994), ‘INRI’ (2003) y ‘Zurita’ (2011). He has traced poems in the sky (New York, 1982), and permanently
in the Atacama desert (Chile, 1993). He has received the Guggenhaim and DAAD scholarships from Germany, and has obtained awards
such as the Pablo Neruda and the National Literature Award in Chile, and the José Lezama Lima Award (Cuba, 2006), among others.
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Copyright Holder: Raúl Zurita
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Address:
c/o Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10003
U.S.A.
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Phone(Fax): +1-212-995-4423
Email: hemi@nyu.edu
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