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Amanda Piña (born in 1978) is a Chilean-Mexican artist based in Vienna, living between Vienna and Mexico City.Her choreographic work explores cosmopolitics, encompassing performance, music, video, and sculptural works that exist within theatre, museums, and beyond. Amanda is a multifaceted artist working across choreography, performance, and dance research – creating, curating, and engaging within university and artistic educational frameworks, as well as writing and editing publications on what she refers to as “endangered human movement practices”.
Of mixed ancestry, Amanda has Spanish, Mapuche, and Lebanese (Syrian-Palestinian) roots. Her work embodies the political and social power of movement, drawing from Indigenous knowledge systems and world-making/maintaining practices that offer alternatives to the current socio-environmental crisis.
Her work has been presented in theatres, galleries, museums, and cultural centres worldwide, including Kunsthalle Wien, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain Paris, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna, deSingel Arts Campus Antwerp, Museo Universitario del Chopo México, and GAM Santiago de Chile, among others.
In 2024, she was a visiting professor at the Valeska Gert Chair of Choreography at the Free University of Berlin. She is currently working on the realisation of the long-term project Endangered Human Movements, which focuses on the reappearance of ancestral movement forms and cultural practices. Five volumes of research have already been completed within this project, including performances, installations, videos, publications, curatorial frameworks, workshops, and lectures.
2025
