Conferences
2022
October to November
* Laboratory at IUAV – University of Venice – Master in Performance and Gender Studies
June to October
* Coordenation laboratory Imagina 2025, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
O projeto «Gulbenkian Imagina» é uma iniciativa do Centro de Arte Moderna para público jovem assente em laboratórios de imaginação orientados por artistas convidados, em torno da ideia de futuro. Nesta edição, um grupo de 16 jovens, de diferentes contextos, tem trabalhado a partir de propostas artísticas de Alina Ruiz Folini e Rita Natálio, dois artistas das artes performativas com pesquisas que trabalham os temas da ecologia, a investigação somática e o género.
As sessões do laboratório contaram ainda com a participação pontual de artistas como Odete, Kahumbi, Ves Liberta, Josefa Pereira e Alice dos Reis, abrindo as práticas a abordagens onde coreografia, ficção científica e moda convergem.
2021
October
* Extração, abstração, alucinação: Antropoceno e suas imaginações estético-políticas, 1 October 2021
Curso Online “Antropoceno: Abordagens Transdisciplinares”
Abril
* Participation ar PACAP 5, Forum Dança, coordination João Fiadeiro e Emma Bigé.
2020
Dezembro
* Efeito Antropocénico: imaginações estético-políticas, 18 Dezembro 2020
Curso Online “Antropoceno: Abordagens Transdisciplinares”
Docentes participantes: Eduardo Neves (Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo), Karen Shiratori (pós-doc Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de São Paulo), Joana Cabral de Oliveira (Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Pedro Paulo Pimenta (Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade de São Paulo), Renato Sztutman (Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de São Paulo), Renzo Taddei (Instituto do Mar, Universidade Federal de São Paulo) e Stelio Marras (Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo). O curso contou ainda com a participação de Rita Natálio. Felipe Figueiredo deu suporte nas atividades de monitoria.
Abril
* Participação no PACAP 4, Forum Dança. Seminário “Arte e Natureza”, e acompanhamento de projetos de escrita que dera
2020
Dec Anthropocene effect: aesthetic-political imaginations, December 18. Online Seminar “Anthropocene: Transdisciplinary Approaches” – University of São Paulo.
Apr
* Seminar Art and Nature”, PACAP 4, Forum Dança “Art and Nature”,
March
* Ecofeminism, women and ecology, Lisbon, Assembleia da Répública, 10th March
Jan
* Convenor at “Re-politicizing the Anthropoce” seminar with David Scarso and Elizabeth Johnson- Anthropocene Campus Lisboa / Culturgest – January 6 – 11 2020
2019
Nov
* Forum of the Future, 4th of November 2019, Rivoli, Port – with Sónia Guajajara and Ernesto Neto – https://www.forumofthefuture.com/en/programme/
The activist Sônia Guajajara is from the Guajajara /Tentehar, based in the forests of the Arariboia indigenous land, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. The daughter of illiterate parents, she has a BA Hons degree in Literature and Nursing and a postgraduate degree in Special Education from the State University of Maranhão. She began her indigenous and environmental activism as a young woman and soon gained international prominence for her struggle to defend indigenous people’s rights. Guajajara has a voice in the UN Human Rights Council and has led complaints to the World Climate Conferences (COP) and the European Parliament, among other international bodies. She has received numerous awards, including the Order of Cultural Merit Award from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, presented in 2015 by then-president Dilma Rousseff.
Oct
* Seminar “Indigenous Epistemologies and Artistic Imagination” – University of Barcelona/MACBA : October 24-25th
Jun
* “Anthropocene Effect and Biocentrism – Indigenous film in Brazil” – VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia – June 4 – 7 , 2019, FCSH-NOVA-Lisbon
* “Is it time to attempt anarchy? (about collective improvisation)”
This conversation on dance as political laboratory brings together anthropologist Rita Natálio and Romain Bigé, co-curator of the exhibition Drafting Interior Techniques about Steve Paxton.
Program: https://www.culturgest.pt/en/whats-on/time-attempt-anarchy-four-lectures-paxton/
Apr
* “Animism, Climate Change and Extinction – film and lecture-performance practice”, April 13th 2019 – Queer-feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art and Visual Cultures
This one-day international conference, part of EcoFutures programme, brings together artists, theorists and activists to cover topics ranging from non-human ethics to ecosexuality. Invited guests include Gaia Giuliani, João Florencio and Silvia Federici. Artworks by Wangechi Mutu, Adelita Husni-Bey and Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle will be screened for this occasion.
https://cuntemporary.org/queer-femini…
2018
* “Animism, climate change and extinction” – conference at “Art, Materiality, Representation” event, Royal Anthropology Institute em Londres, June 1 – 3 2018
