On the reappearance of ancestral forms of knowledge in art and beyond
Lecture by Amanda Piña
online via Zoom
In her presentation Amanda Piña will talk about her research project, and will center on Danzas Climaticas, the fifth volume she is currently developing, which deals with dance as a form of offering in relation to earth beings, addressing neo colonial mining extractivism in the Andes.
* Endangered Human Movements is a long-term project, started in the year 2014, focusing on human movement practices which have been cultivated for centuries all over the world in relation to the current loss of bio-cultural diversity. 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. This reappearance of ancestral forms of movement entails a movement towards decolonizing contemporary arts and culture by introducing critical perspectives from the fields of anthropology, history, philosophy, visual arts, dance, choreography and contemporary-traditional indigenous Amerindian knowledge, the latter encompassing not only contemporary shamanism but also orally transmitted knowledge, social knowledge about the body, about movement and touch, about healing, about plants, about perception, about the interconnectedness of life forms and about ritual diplomatic knowledge applied to the relationship with other beings.
Amanda Piña, Mexican-Chilean-Austrian artist and cultural worker living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her work is concerned with the decolonisation of art, focusing on the political and social power of movement. Her pieces are contemporary rituals for temporarily dismantling the ideological separations between modern and traditional, the human and the animal, nature and culture. Amanda Piña is interested in making art beyond the idea of a product and in developing new frameworks for the creation of meaningful experiences. Her pieces have been presented in art institutions such as Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, TQW and ImpulsTanz Festival, in Vienna. DeSingel Antwerpen,STUK Leuven, Buda Kortrik, Beurschowburg Brussels, Royal festival Hall London, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Tanz NRW, Düsseldorf and HAU, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, NAVE and Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil in Chile. She publishes books in relation to her research on Endangered Human Movements* such as FourvRemarks on the history of dance EHM. Vol.1, Dance and resistance, EHM, Vol.2and The School of the Jaguar, EHM.Vol 3, all published by the Austrian Ministry of Movement Affairs.
Organized by the Institute for Education in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in cooperation with Kunsthalle Vienna
