To Bloom () Practicas de Florecimiento
WORKS
To Bloom ( ) Practices de Florecimiento
Amanda Piña / estudio fortuna 2024
PERFORMATIVE SCULPTURES
#Installation #textile works #hand weaved nets #bodily politics
The installation of large scale performative sculptures is also a context of transmission.
Oceanic ancestors help us to practice forms of becoming collective ancestral, composted and multiple.
The research part of the Volume 5 of the long term Artistic research Endangered Human Movements* 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 into the human body through the virtual and the imaginal.
In this set of artistic, choreographic, spiritual and political practices to be shared in different context Amanda Piña explores water as a fluid and sacred entity and the ocean as a realm of ancestral knowledge.
The aim is to transform modern notions of the body and the land, (environment), in order to unlearn modern / colonial ideas that shape our bodies and relations.Imagining an ancestral future in which water is not any more understood as stuff, h2o or a natural resource, but as a sacred source of life, the installation performance embodies oceanic animal ancestors and 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.
#DECOLONIZATION OF THE SENSES
*Endangered Human Movements is the title of a long-term project, initiated in the year 2014, focusing on the re-appearance of ancestral human (and non-human), movement practices. Within this frame, a series of performances, workshops, films, installations, talks, publications and a comprehensive online archive are developed, in which ancestral embodied practices -movements, dances and forms of world-making – re-appear in the context of the theatre, the museum and beyond. The artistic research practice entails a movement towards understanding the implications of the narratives of modernity still present in arts and culture by introducing critical perspectives from the fields of anthropology, decolonial theory and contemporary Amerindian and Afro-diasporic knowledge traditions as present in Abya Yala, (the American continent), the latter encompassing not only contemporary shamanic practices but also orally transmitted knowledge, social knowledge about the body, about dance, movement and touch, about healing, about plants, about perception, about the interconnectedness of life forms and about ritual diplomatic knowledge applied to the relationships with other beings.







Dates
Credits
Credits:
Artistic direction: Amanda Piña
Integral design: Michel Jiménez
Assistant Choreographer & Research: Inés Sofía Cardona Parra
Performative Sculptures Amanda Piña / Estudio Fortuna
Costumes: Rheremita Cera
Sound Design: Michel Jimenez
Music: Christian Müller
Produced by Amanda Piña/ Estudio Fortuna in Coproduction with DeSingel International Arts Center Antwerp. Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria
International distribution: Something Great Berlin