CICATRIZ ~ Terra Batida School
An eco-disoriented study space
A school for learning from ghosts and wounds
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.
The second edition, curated by Ritó Natálio, returns to Espaço Parasita between 17 and 20 September 2026 and brings together a range of voices spanning decolonial ecology, expanded choreography, experimental cinema, speculative fiction and Afro-diasporic knowledge: Valentina Desideri, Cinema Fulgor/Sílvia das Fadas, Pedro Barbosa and Ritó Natálio.
⌂ TECHNICAL INFO
A Terra Batida programme:Curated by (1st ed.): Ritó Natálio and Margarida Mendes
Curated by (2nd ed.): Ritó Natálio
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
Guests (2nd ed.): Valentina Desideri, Cinema Fulgor/Sílvia das Fadas, Pedro Barbosa and Ritó Natálio
Curatorial assistance and mediation: Laila Algaves Nuñez
Executive production and administration: Associação Parasita
Graphic design (1st ed.): Cláudia Lancaster, based on a drawing by Pablo Quiroga Devia
Graphic design (2nd ed.): Maura Grimaldi
Documentation in drawing (1st ed.): Pablo Quiroga Devia
Co-production of the inaugural session with Olivier Marboeuf (1st ed.): Choreolinguistic Salon (Centre for Theatre Studies — FLUL)