CICATRIZ — Terra Batida School
An eco-disoriented study space
A school for learning from ghosts and wounds
Looking at cocoons and reading vegetables
Writing with the mouth
Protesting and levitating
Bringing together the confluence of multidisciplinary knowledge that the Terra Batida [Earthways] platform has been practising over the last few years, CICATRIZ — Terra Batida School combines practices and poetics to inspire collective forms of resistance and reconciliation with a changing world.
In this space for collective study, attentive to the scars that result from historical structural wounds and/or that document inter-species cooperation, the group of participants is invited to take part in activities of reflection, practice and enjoyment that weave new gestures and sensorialities to interact with our surroundings. Crossing the knowledge of the body with the perspectives addressed by the intersectionality of environmental humanities, CICATRIZ — Terra Batida School proposes new modes of critical cohabitation, inspired by the collaborative solidarity between different ways of living.
The first edition of the programme, curated by Ritó Natálio and Margarida Mendes, took place between 13 and 19 September 2025 at Espaço Parasita, with the participation of Olivier Marboeuf, the Landra collective, Karen Shiratori, Margarida Mendes, Joana Levi, Amador Alina Folini, PROTESTO EXISTENCIAL (Silvio Lang, Quillen Mut, Ritó Natálio, Amador Alina Folini), Ritó Natálio and AFRONTOSAS.
⌂ TECHNICAL INFO
A Terra Batida programme:Curated by (1st ed.): Ritó Natálio and Margarida Mendes
Guests (1st ed.): Olivier Marboeuf, Landra, Karen Shiratori, Margarida Mendes, Joana Levi, Amador Alina Folini, PROTESTO EXISTENCIAL (Silvio Lang, Quillen Mut, Ritó Natálio, Amador Alina Folini), Ritó Natálio and AFRONTOSAS
Curatorial assistance and mediation: Laila Algaves Nuñez
Executive production and administration: Associação Parasita
Graphic design: Cláudia Lancaster, based on a design by Pablo Quiroga Devia
Documentation in drawing: Pablo Quiroga Devia
Co-production of the inaugural session with Olivier Marboeuf: Choreolinguistic Salon (Centre for Theatre Studies — FLUL)