""These repetitions start happening. It's like a humming and the song gets louder and louder and it generates heat and color and it generates so much heat that by accident the star is born. And in that moment when the star's born, we see each other for the first time. But it's sad because we're also separated for the first time.""
""Our version is an assemblage of every version we could find. The three songs collected on Wak'a... trace the wrenching apart of the old, unified world and the birth of the new, delineated one: the mundo en policía, or policed world, where categories and taxonomies silo what was once interconnected and whole.""
Aymara oral history narrates the creation of the world through the first sunrise, where a dark universe pulses with activity before the sun's birth. This moment brings both connection and separation. Siblings Chuquimamani-Condori and Crampton compiled this narrative into a booklet and released an EP titled Wak'a, reflecting the transition from a unified world to a categorized one. Their work encompasses sound installations, lectures, and films, exploring Aymara abolitionist histories and challenging genre constraints in their artistic expressions.
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