To Bloom () Practicas de Florecimiento

New Creation 2024

Performance

 

 

To Bloom ( ) Practices de Florecimiento

Amanda Piña / estudio fortuna 2024

INSTALLATIVE IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

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In this set of artistic / choreographic /political practices to be shared in different context Amanda Piña explores water as a fluid entity and the ocean as a realm of ancestral knowledge. The aim is to transform Modern notions of the body towards a decolonize understanding of our bodies as ancestral, composted and multiple towards a decolonization of the senses.

The practice based bodily and discursive artistic proposal  illuminates two key facets: the embodiment of  mestizo, first nations and Afro-diasporic- understandings of water, encoded in dance  and sound, which have persisted and flourished  in Abya Yala, ( the Americas) within and beyond violent contexts such as colonisation,  slave trade and capitalist extraction.

Secondly, her research explores oceanic movements on a broader scale, encompassing the motions of ancient animal species—such as sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, and echinoderms—to be understood as pedagogies to be applied through touch and curanderismo* into the human body through he virtual and the imaginal.

Imagining an ancestral future in which water is not any more understood as stuff, h2o or a natural resource, the installation performance  embodies the ocean as a nexus of origins, transit, and demise, transformation and  extinction,  yet also as a vibrant realm crucial for the sustenance of life on Earth.

 

 

 

*Curanderismo is a diverse and prevailing relational folk healing system that emerged in Abya Yala( Latin America) within indigenous, mestizo and afro diasporic communities