On 25 September 2021, Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia)gave a performance lecture at Auto Italia on the occasion of Amaru’s Tongue: Daughter, the first international solo exhibition by US-based artists Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. 

In this event, Chuquimamani-Condori shared research on embodied cultural heritage that informed the creation of her new moving image work Amaru’s Tongue: Daughter, and explored ideas of memory repression through a range of archival materials drawn from Aymaran histories and cultures, as well as research from neuroscientists Cristina Alberini and Mark Solms.

Amaru’s Tongue: Daughter is the first international solo exhibition by US-based artists Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, a newly commissioned moving image, in which the artists, who are members of the Pakaxa Aymara nation, enact a ceremony for their grandmother and explore their family’s rituals around death. Underpinned by the nation’s abolitionist traditions as inseparable from the Black radical tradition, this project attests to different spacetimes and ways of imagining as ‘abolition geographies’ (Ruthie Gilmore Wilson, 2017).

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The Lake Before the Sun Was Born 
2-4 November 2021
Programmed by Ignota Books and Auto Italia in cooperation with NTS Radio

The Lake Before the Sun Was Born is a series of conversations on the occasion of Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton's exhibition Amaru's Tongue: Daughter, currently on display at Auto Italia in London. Engaging with themes emerging from Amaru's Tongue: Daughter and its broader context, artists, curators, scholars, archivists, and herbalists will explore land ties, herbalism, Indigenous spacetime, oral history and the archive, abolition and activism.

For full information & to book: https://ignota.org/blogs/news/the-lake-before-the-sun-was-born

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Chuquimamani-Condori is an Aymara multidisciplinary artist and musician. Under the moniker Elysia Crampton, Chuquimamani-Condori has released multiple critically acclaimed records, including her most recent LP ORCORARA 2010 (2020). Recent presentations include the Biennale of the Moving Image at Centre D’Art Contemporain in Geneva (2018) and LUMA Westbau in Zürich (2018). Her first book Amarupachankiri (2020) was published with Puro Fantasia.

Performance Lecture: Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia)

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