ARTIST TALK - Chuquimamani-Condori

The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is pleased to present Across the Policed World: A Transnocturnal Huayño, an exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and musician Chuquimamani-Condori.

The exhibition builds a historical foundation for the first commissioned moving-image work by Chuquimamani-Condori and her brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton.

The talk will go over anthropological papers of the museum of natural history from 1951-52 written by Harry Tschopik Jr., as well as notes on a translated excerpt from Aymara chronicler Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua’s Relacion from the turn of the 16th century, ending with an oral history by Clyde Bellecourt of the American Indian Movement, in relation to physics and the vacuum.

The project of the talk is to feel out some of the ongoing tension between Aymara oral history, or more broadly, tension between Indigenous oral history, and the archive emerging in the establishment of coloniality’s spacetimes. 

COVER IMAGE: PHOTOGRAPHIE DE LA GRAND MÈRE DE L’ARTISTE FLORA TANCARA QUIÑONES MONTEVILLA CHUQUIMIA