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AMANDA PIÑA: "ATLANTIC UNDERCURRENT CIRCULATION", Part 1: "FUTURE SONGS OF FISH AND PEOPLE"

The first presentation within "Citizen-Commissioned Dance and Performance" takes place on June 27, 2026, on Ummanz, near Rügen. Here, Amanda Piña will present the opening event of her three-parted piece "Atlantic Undercurrent Circulation". Her work for the New Patrons of Ummanz honors the labor and knowledge of coastal fishers and forges new relationships with marine life. It connects Ummanz to ecological, geographical, cultural, and economic currents around the world.

Atlantic Undercurrent Circulation
A project by Amanda Piña for the New Patrons of Ummanz
Part 1: Future Songs of Fish and People
Saturday, 27.6.2026, Ummanz near Rügen
Performance with TogetherTogether Collective (NL) and others
Free admission, no registration required


Across Europe, the traditional craft of small-scale coastal fishing is in crisis and faces the threat of disappearing entirely. Yet coastal fishing is more than an economic sector – it is ancient knowledge and and lived practice, and was just last Friday declared an intangible UNESCO Cultural Heritage. Ummanz, an island near Rügen, has been a centre of local coastal fishing for centuries. Residents have therefore as New Patrons of Ummanz commissioned artist Amanda Piña for an artistic production that acknowledges the achievements of coastal fishers and their families with confidence and humor, makes them accessible to a wider public, and opens up new perspectives for the future.

Amanda Piña responds to the commission with a three-part concept. It connects the local context of Ummanz and its centuries-long shaping by coastal lagoon (Bodden) fishing with global ecological processes and oceanic cultures. The project takes its name from a system of ocean currents (AMOC) threatened by climate change – one that is responsible for regulating the weather in Europe, links oceans, species, and coastal communities worldwide in a fragile network.

The work opens with a collective event on Saturday, June 27, 2026, on Ummanz. Titled Future Songs of Fish and People, this central element brings together international performers and people from the region. The knowledge and labor of the Bodden fishers are honored through a procession with visual and sonic elements, and a public ceremony. A choreographic sequence of "living sculptures" draws on the movements of corals, plankton, and other largely invisible marine microorganisms, transforming fishing materials into fluid, forms.

In the second part of Atlantic Undercurrent Circulation, the traces of the event will be permanently embedded in public space. In the third part, a video installation will be created that can be shown beyond Ummanz.

Everyone is welcome, admission is free! Further information about the event will be announced in good time here and on all other channels of Neue Auftraggeber.


Patrons: Detlef Diedrich, Karin Gundlach, Gabriele Heenemann, Lutz Peters (†), Peter Schüler, André Stoye, Elke Stoye
Mediator: Susanne Burmester
Production: Fortuna – Verein zur Förderung nachhaltiger Kunst 
Head of Production: Michel Jimenez
Coordination: Federico Protto (Vienna), Lisa Marie Steude (Ummanz)
Local Lead organization: Kunstverein Rügen e. V. / Circus Eins Projekte

Initiated and premiered within Citizen-Commissioned Dance and Performance, a program of Gesellschaft der Neuen Auftraggeber. Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

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