MoMA PS1 PRESENTS MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION BY ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS CHUQUIMAMANI-CONDORI & JOSHUA CHUQUIMIA CRAMPTON OPENING MARCH 16

LONG ISLAND CITY, #newyork, March 8, 2023-MoMA PS1 will present a newly commissioned, multimedia installation made collaboratively by Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, b. 1985, Inland Empire, CA) and #joshuachuquimiacrampton (b. 1983, San Diego, CA), a sibling duo working as artists and musicians who belong to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara #people. On view from March 16 through October 2, 2023 in PS1’s double-height ground-floor gallery, this immersive work interlaces sound and music with a mural that incorporates personal stories from the artists’ family and the Aymara– comprising several Indigenous nations who live across the Andean highlands of #bolivia, Southern Peru, and Northern Chile. Honoring their great-great-grandparents, Aymara leaders Francisco Tancara and Rosa Quiñones, the artists incarnate their elders' dream, releasing them from religious doctrine and state laws that suppress queer and native autonomy.

Q'iwanakaxa/Q'iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa (Cacique apoderado Francisco Tancara & Rosa Quiñones confronted by the subprefecto, chief of police, corregidor, archbishop, Reid Shepard, & Adventist missionaries) brings together Indigenous Aymara cosmologies with queer and abolitionist thought, incorporating multiple forms of intergenerational knowledge through Aymara symbolism, oral histories, and exchange. Alongside the exhibition, #momaps1 will present a two-part Indigenous and Migrant Justice Symposium and host a musical performance by the sibling duo. Previously, Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton) performed at MoMA PS1’s Warm Up in 2016.

The centerpiece of the installation is a large-scale, digitally rendered collage, which also serves as a model for a potential community mural in Rosario, #bolivia, where the artists’ land ties remain. The work centers Aymara q’iwa and q’iwsa medicine, also known as queer medicine, to enact reciprocal healing. The collage components combine qillqa (an Aymaran form of writing with images), traditional medicines, and archival family photos with new drawings that tell their multi-generational story, while audiences can spend time in the immersive space to hear these stories come to life through oral histories and an original score.