A series of audio tours of Cusco city streets and their histories narrated by Jose Uriel Garcia, an important Cusco writer in the 1930s, accompanied by text messages explaining local histories.

Jose Uriel Garcia, a key Cusco writer in the 1930s who wrote the important book "El Nuevo Indio" (The New Indian), leads us on tours through Cusco city streets, revealing unknown local histories. You can download audio versions and listen to Uriel Garcia's poetic and insightful texts on MP3 players and headphones as you walk through Cusco, or you can download his texts to be read on your screen, mobile or fixed. For those of you who can't be in Cusco for this experience yet, we have provided a set of photos, from the past and present, to guide you through each point in the tours of the city visually. As you move from point to point in the city, you can also access a glossary of terms – meanings of quechua words, brief bios of famous people – to help you navigate the city through Uriel Garcia's eyes.

There are three different walks with Uriel Garcia through the city. The map of Cusco outlines each walk and provides access to the audio, text and visual materials you access to undertake each walk. If you are in Cusco, the walks vary in difficulty of physical requirement, including climbing and length of walk. If you not in Cusco, please view the slideshow that accompanies each Uriel Garcia text.

Walk 1 centres on the Plaza de Armas, and involves visiting 7 different points around the Plaza, listening to 7 different texts by Uriel Garcia. In between points where his texts are heard, you can download the glossary of relevant terms. Walk 1 lasts approximately 50 minutes and involves steps but no difficult climbing.

Walk 2 centres on San Blas, and involves visiting 5 different points in San Blas, listening to 5 different texts by Uriel Garcia. In between points where his texts are heard, you can download the glossary of relevant terms. Walk 2 lasts approximately 60 minutes and involves steps and some climbing up and down cobbled roads.

Walk 3 centres on San Cristobal, and involves visiting 5 different points in San Cristobal, listening to 5 different texts by Uriel Garcia. In between points where his texts are heard, you can download the glossary of relevant terms. Walk 3 lasts approximately 60 minutes and involves many steps and substantial climbing up and down cobbled roads.

Recreations of the popular 1930s radio program "La Hora del Charango", including recordings from the period and recordings of period music by contemporary Cusco musicians.

"La Hora del Charango" was a very popular Cusco radio program in the 1930s where many different kinds of local music were played. QOSQO LLIKA has recreated "La Hora del Charango" in five 15 minute radio programs, each focusing on a particular instrument or style of Cusco music from the 1930s. These programs include recordings from the period as well as original recordings of 1930s music by contemporary Cusco musicians played especially for QOSQO LLIKA. As well, each program includes texts written by Cusco poets that link all the songs together into a tender love story. These radio programs were played throughout Cusco in public places during the live installation. As well, the QOSQO LLIKA music CD was distributed free at QOSQO LLIKA's LIVE MUSIC concerts. This is a unique collection of Cusco music that we encourage you download for free and enjoy wherever you are. For the website version of this musical element of the documentary, we have created slideshows of musicians, past and present, who are heard on the CD.

10 live musical performances by local musicians in plazas throughout Cusco.

Between April 6 through 10, QOSQO LLIKA presented 10 live performances of traditional Cusco music by local musicians in public plazas throughout Cusco. The musicians playing in these concerts, as well as the time and location of the concerts, were announced the day of the concert by text message sent to participants' cellphones.

Performers included: Cuarteto de Cuerdas Vilcanota; Esteban Ttupa; Familia Pillco; Jorge y Flavio Choquehuillca; k´ana Harawi; Leoncio Caviedes; Los Melódicos del Cusco; Orquestín Choquehuillca Ayllu; Quinteto de Metales Cusco Brass; Qota Taki Ayllu

As these were live performances in specific public sites in Cusco, it is not possible to recreate this element of the documentary for the web version. However, we captured all these musical performances on video and will be posting them here once they are edited. Please stay tuned for the launch of videos of these performances. In the meantime, some of the artists who performed can be heard on the QOSQO LLIKA radio programs.

Photographs projected in Cusco streets by four local performance artists interacting with the public via video cameras and mobile projectors as they show photographs by Cusco photographers from the 1930s, including Martin Chambi and Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar.

Cusco in the 1930s was the site of an important photographic culture. Photo artists like Martin Chambi captured the richness and the paradoxes of life in Cusco with creative and committed eyes. As always, QOSQO LLIKA plays with the past and the present. To relive the enormous photographic output of the 1930s, 4 contemporary Cusco performance/installation artists, equipped with small portable projectors and video cameras, walked through the streets of Cusco at night, projecting photos from the past onto the present, interacting with the public by taking photos of them in the present and inserting them into the past.

Each of these 4 performance artists assumed a character and walked through the streets of Cusco, projecting old and new photos. The public joined the performance artists as each one took a different path through the city. Often they crossed paths with the Live Music concerts that took place daily in Cusco plazas. Often they crossed paths with each other and did group projections of photos.

Andean Woman

Dancer and performance artist Marisol Zumaeta designed and built a traditional skirt that is also a screen she projected photographs on. As she walked through Cusco streets, she danced traditional Andean dances as she projected photos of women dancing taken by Martin Chambi in the 1930s.

The Poet of Light

Painter, dancer and visual artist Mabel Allain, dressed as Martin Chambi, known as "The Poet of Light", projected a series of Chambi's remarkable photographs of the people and places of Cusco as they changed over time, focusing on the period from 1930 to 1950, when Cusco was devastated by an earthquake.

Ghost

Actor and performance artist Mauricio Rueda, dressed as a man from the 1930s, projected photos in Cusco streets taken in the 1930s by Martin Chambi, Figueroa Aznar and Eulogio Nishiyama. Rueda's persona was inserted into these archival photos of groups of people in Cusco, and the photos are accompanied by texts that question Cusco's history.

The Priest

Performance artist Augusto Navarro projected self-portraits by Figueroa Aznar, taken in the 1930s, in which Figueroa Aznar performs a number of characters for his own camera. Navarro dresses as these characters and interacts with the photo of them that he projects.

As these were live performances by artists in specific public sites in Cusco, it is not possible to recreate this element of the documentary for the web version. However, we captured all these photo performances on video and will be posting them here once they are edited. Please stay tuned for the launch of videos of these performances.

A recreation of a newspaper from 1930 with detailed information about QOSQO LLIKA and maps of events.

QOSQO LLIKA merges the past and the present, and to continue this play with time, we published a newspaper dated April 30, 1930, the same date Uriel Garcia published his book "El Nuevo Indio". Titled QOSQOLLIKA.ORG, this newspaper is published in English, Spanish and Quechua and contains a new interview with Uriel Garcia, an article about music in Cusco in 1930, previously unpublished photos by Martin Chambi, (noted indigenous photographer from the period), a double page poster for QOSQO LLIKA, and complete credits for the project. The newspaper also contains maps of QOSQO LLIKA tours and events that took place between April 6 and 10. 15,000 copies of the newspaper were distributed for free in Cusco city streets during the installation component of the documentary. You can read the newspaper by clicking the newspaper star and downloading.