Amanda Piña (b. 1978, MX) is a Mexican-Chilean artist who has also built up a performance practice in Austria and travels back and forth between Vienna and Mexico City. “I moved from Latin America to Europe because I was looking for a form of art or dance that was not about virtuosity or spectacle but was embodied and urgent.”
Amanda Piña steadily works on a podium practice that focuses on the revival of ancestral movements, dance forms and worlds. Within the context of the accelerated plundering of natural resources and the lands on which people live, she is developing a grounded body of subversive work that abolishes, or at least questions, the ideological divisions between the modern and the traditional, culture and nature, human and animal or vegetable, thus creating frameworks for new sensory experiences. She has been a guest at deSingel with her work several times, including The Jaguar And The Snake, the third part of the Endangered Human Movements cycle.
