SASKIA CALDERÓN
Tahuantinsuyo II



Title: Tahuantinsuyo 2
Modality: Video-Performance
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
Year: 2024
Taki Aclla means woman musician singer in the pre-Hispanic period of the Tahuantinsuyo.
My interest with this exposition is the rebirth of the pre-Hispanic woman singer role.
Taki Aclla is a singing musician at the disposal of an extinct territory, the Tahuantinsuyo to which Ecuador belonged.
In the exposition, I sing in some facilities that are representation of bales, pre-Hispanic funerary practices in the form of the sun and a mountain, Tahuantinsuyo deities, to demonstrate a dead role of women singers and their voices dedicated to the praise of this star and mountain.
My interest in bringing the past to the present is to recover the importance of the pre-Hispanic deities for the preservation of our planet and the rebirth of our star cosmovisión.
Since the essence of the piece is the death, it is conceived as in the Andean world where we die for a new life, I take it as a concept to give life to the Taki Aclla and their songs to the deities in connection with the current problems.