cristalina parra
de torpedos y machetes
a series of poems for TERCE by Ignacio Gatica
Gatica and I wrote 9 poems for TERCE, a piece exhibited at the Sculpture Center’s Literally Means Collapse. We constructed a series of found poems that told stories of what Latin America's 1960s and 70s looked like when the continent served as a backdrop for the CIA's famous “Operation Condor.” These poems were printed on sculpture plinths by the artist.
Accompanying the program at the Sculpture Center there was a “cheat sheet” reader produced by Gatica. It collated contributions by Juan Carreño, Gabriel Osorio, Carlos Soto Roman, and myself.
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