The installation of large scale performative sculptures is also a context of transmission. Oceanic ancestors help us to practice forms of fluid becoming, collective ancestral, composted and multiple.
The bodies of the performers become fluid and assume indistinguishable forms within yielding textures, transforming into moving structures that become archives oceanic ancestry. In this performance the artist works with hand weaved textiles, created together with Mayan crafts women from the Yucatan, peninsula in Mexico. With the performative installation To Bloom () Practicas de Florecimiento, Amanda Piña takes us into the heart of the ocean for a contemporary ritual: a place that is both an origin and a destiny, where we reclaim our roots and rethink how to live on Earth.
On stage, students from the Summer Lab organised by Lost Movement and ArteMente, who participated in the training led by Amanda Piña.
[...] an intriguing installative performance as an homage to the movements of ancient underwater species [...]. By intertwining the micro and macro movements, the cosmic and the political the ocean appears as a confluence of flow and decay, but also as a vibrant vital realm that sustains our life.
