Begun in Chile in 1971, Cecilia Vicuña's project On Behalf of the Seeds effectively joins her poetic insight as a conceptual artist to her work as an innovative educator. During the 1999-2000 year On Behalf of the Seeds will be carried to a new level with projects at UIUC and, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, in Chile. In this performance/talk Vicuña traces the "roots" of the project to the myths and poetry of pre-Columbian America, exploring the ancients' ways of relating to seeds and to the earth as a means of transmitting knowledge and ethical codes.

Vicuña's project at UIUC developed out of the Exhibitions Working Group (EWG), an inter-disciplinary, collaborative group exploring the potential of both the arts and a university art museum on a large research campus. Performance artist Joe Goode, also working with EWG, will give a program within the CAS/MillerComm series on October 21; his installation opens at KAM on October 22.

Sponsored by: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion

In conjunction with: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Environmental Rehearsal Lab, Department of Landscape Architecture, Francis P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Media Narrative Center, School of Art and Design, Visiting Artists Program, School of Art and Design