Danzas Climáticas [Climatic Dances] consists of a video installation featuring two video works, Climatic Dances ( in a monitor) and App Wamani ( in the wall).

The video installation which enters in dialogue with the body of the viewer, is part of the long-term project Endangered Human Movements, begun in 2014, which is dedicated to the re-appearence of ancestral forms of movement and thought.

A reaction to the current loss of planetary cultural and biological diversity, the project is inspired by Mexican anthropologist Alessandro Questa’s work on two dances from the northern highlands of Puebla performed by the Masewal people. For Questa, “these so-called ‘traditional’ dances stand in fact as creative social devices to visualize and intervene into socio-environmental relations, stressing the interdependence between all life forms in this mountainous region.” In Piña’s work, the two dances — Tipekajomeh and Wewentiyo — establish a point of departure for a journey into the depths of the mountain, the biographical landscape of the Artist today threatened by mining extraction and toward the re-enchantment of that which modern science has termed “geology”. Through bodily practices of becoming mountain, glacier, water, forest, and air, a mode of knowing is applied that the West usually refers to as “nature” but here is related to shamanism, oraliture (spoken stories), and magical thinking and can be understood as a dance that is the political practice of decolonial ecologies.