In Mountains in Resistance – The School of Mountains and Water, the Vienna-based Mexican-Chilean choreographer and performance artist Amanda Piña continues her long-term research into the ongoing loss of our planet’s cultural and biological diversity. Mountains in Resistance – The School of Mountains and Water consists of a three-day program including lectures, discussions, and installations as well as a tour followed by a performative parcours and a workshop in the mountains (site specific).  

Mountains in Resistance is conceived as a school of unlearning the modern/colonial idea of the Human as pre-existent and separated from that which sustains its life, proposing connections of care between human bodies and bodies of mountains, glaciers, and water. It is therefore key to recognize mountains as living bodies, active in the reproduction of water as life.