Our Story
In 2015, a group of young people aspired to create a space for experimenting with audiovisual media and transfeminist struggles.
This dream began in Lima and evolved. In 2017, we established our feminist cultural house in Huancayo, known as La Munay. This marked a shift towards creating outside of Lima, and we continued our creative and rebellious processes in Huancayo and later in Ayacucho.
In 2020, Chola Contravisual found its path with Brunito, a key founder and creator of the collective. That same year, Chola relocated fully outside of Lima, and with Wen’s arrival, our Quechua spirit was reignited.
The Cholitas
Meet the team that makes this collective possible
From a young age, I have been deeply involved in cultural and artistic pursuits, working alongside my mother and her musical project “El duo las Salcabambinitas” and co-founding Chola Contravisual. With over a decade of experience advocating for human rights, I have passionately envisioned and coordinated various creative projects. As an artivist, I have used film to amplify important messages about land rights, ancestral connections, and the defense of TTTLGBIA+ rights. I am dedicated to weaving networks, fostering alliances, and promoting spiritual and collective care. Additionally, I am excited to release soon my first feature-length documentary, "Flor Pucarina, Rebelde Hasta Los Huesos."
Audiovisual creator and Ayacucho anthropologist, cultural manager based on the community, working from the care and respect for existences in their diversity, believing that life can be sustained through the arts and rebellion against colonialism, feeling music as a space of resistance for our peoples and territories. Being a countervisual cholita since 2020, coordinating and co-creating spaces for meetings, screenings, cultural events, and making short films linked and connected with the Andean and native communities, she also does audiovisual montage and editing, sound and camera. I love attending the various festivities of our peoples and making sound recordings of the songs and music, also recording the subtle things that happen in the daily life of the day to day and playing my guitar and charanguito.
I live in Lima and my blood is from Canteño, Tarmeño and Chincha, because those are the origins of my grandparents. I practice Nichiren Buddhism, but I also ritualize from other spiritual worlds such as the Andean worldview, Hinduism, among others. I am pansexual, non-binary gender, sometimes an animal and other times I do not exist because I am in the future. I was in Chola Contravisual from the beginning, recording, editing and designing. Currently, I am in charge of social networks and the web. I have a very strong connection with technology, visuals and sound.
A visual creator from Ayacucho, I use the pencil to capture the vision from the territories I inhabit and the languages that contain their wisdom.
A trained visual artist and graphic designer, curious about engraving techniques and an illustrator with a pure plant-based heart. Artivist and accomplice in actions in favor of human rights.
Collaborators
We are grateful to everyone who joined Chola with their tenderness and creativity. We are now in Huancayo and Ayacucho, co-creating autonomously. Our dream is to expand to Huancavelica.
Indigenous Moche Quechua woman, intercultural popular educator, hampiqamayuq (herbalist), territorial community feminist, ceremonial leader, and Andean smoke-bather. She is dedicated to researching and disseminating the Andean worldview to strengthen identity and recognize the wisdom of territories and peoples. She conducts meetings, workshops, and talks from an anticolonial, antipatriarchal, antiracist, and Andean perspective. She facilitates healing spaces and spiritual connections, supporting emotional and/or energetic processes. She is a prayer leader for the waters and the apukuna (spirits of the mountains), Chakaruna (bridge person).
Indigenous Moche Quechua woman, intercultural popular educator, hampiqamayuq (herbalist), territorial community feminist, ceremonial leader, and Andean smoke-bather. She is dedicated to researching and disseminating the Andean worldview to strengthen identity and recognize the wisdom of territories and peoples. She conducts meetings, workshops, and talks from an anticolonial, antipatriarchal, antiracist, and Andean perspective. She facilitates healing spaces and spiritual connections, supporting emotional and/or energetic processes. She is a prayer leader for the waters and the apukuna (spirits of the mountains), Chakaruna (bridge person).
Indigenous Moche Quechua woman, intercultural popular educator, hampiqamayuq (herbalist), territorial community feminist, ceremonial leader, and Andean smoke-bather. She is dedicated to researching and disseminating the Andean worldview to strengthen identity and recognize the wisdom of territories and peoples. She conducts meetings, workshops, and talks from an anticolonial, antipatriarchal, antiracist, and Andean perspective. She facilitates healing spaces and spiritual connections, supporting emotional and/or energetic processes. She is a prayer leader for the waters and the apukuna (spirits of the mountains), Chakaruna (bridge person).