Coimbra Session

Rita Natálio is an artist and researcher. Non-binary lesbian. Natálio’s practice spaces relate poetry, essayistic writing and performance. PhD student in Art Studies at FCSH-UNL and Anthropology at USP, with FCT scholarship, researches since 2014, the recent debate on the concept of Anthropocene and its impact on the disciplinary and aesthetic redefinition of the relations between art, politics and ecology. The artist studied Choreographic Performing Arts at the University of Paris VIII and holds a Master's degree in Psychology from PUC-SP where Natálio studied the relations between imitation and invention in the work of Gabriel Tarde. From the doctoral research, Natálio held a series of conference-performances, including "Antropocenas" (2017) with João dos Santos Martins, "Geofagia" (2018) and "Fossil" (2020). Rita Natálio has also published two books of poetry ("Handicrafts", 2015 and "Human Plants", 2017). In 2019, Rita participated in a curatorial group fostered by Ailton Krenak that organized "Ameríndia: percursos do cinema indígena no Brasil" at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a show that brought 5 indigenous filmmakers to Portugal and presented more than 30 films of indigenous production. In 2020, Rita Natálio co-organized the seminar "Re-politicizing the Anthropocene" within the international project Anthropocene Campus Lisbon together with Davide Scarso and Elisabeth Johnson, a project originated at HKW in Berlin and currently disseminated in several cultural institutions. Co-organizes, with André e.Teodósio, a publishing imprint Ed.______ that results from the partnership Sistema Solar/Teatro Praga and focuses on performing arts and systems of power and protest today. Rita Natálio regularly collaborates with the performing arts journal Corea.