Chuquimamani-Condori
What we wrote when Chuquimamani-Condori took part in Episode 11, 2024:
Chuquimamani-Condori (previously Elysia Crampton Chuquimia) is a Northern California-based artist and musician belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people. They recently presented Q’iwanakaxa/Q’iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa (Cacique apoderado Francisco Tancara & Rosa Quiñones confronted by the subprefecto, chief of police, corregidor, archbishop, Reid Shepard, & Adventist missionaries) at MoMA PS1 in New York, with their sibling Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. They have also presented work with NTS Radio London, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and Auto Italia, where they presented Amaru’s Tongue: Daughter (2021), another collaborative work with Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. They also work with AIM SoCal, the Southern California autonomous chapter of the American Indian Movement.

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Chuquimamani-Condori
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.