Ritó (Rita Natálio)
Geoerotics
- 11.11 2023
- Espaço Alkantara
- Free upon registration
- 14H-17H
- 3H
- In Portuguese and English (speakers of one or both languages are welcome)
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Expanded practices of reading and writing to address extractivism, eroticism, mining, and sexuality.
In this workshop, we will deal with some of the transversal themes and texts from our research in Fundão, connecting themes that have been important to my own research in previous projects such as Geophagy (2018), Fossil (2020), and Spillovers (2023), as well as in my teaching practice. Through expanded practices of reading and writing, we will reflect on how processes of energy extraction connect to abstraction in language, putting geology in contact with corporality, mining, and sexuality. Readings include excerpts from Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler (2020); The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (1980); Bodily Natures by Stacy Alaimo (2010), I have a big rock by Ritó (2020); Between Gaia and the Ground (2021) by Elizabeth Povinelli; and A Billion Black Anthropocenes Or None by Kathryn Yusoff (2018).
Ritó (Rita Natálio)
Content notes
Recommended for 18+.
Artist and researcher. Non-binary lesbian. Their areas of practice combine writing and performance, be it in production, teaching, research or in organising public programmes. They have organised a series of talk-performances dedicated to the relationship between language and geology, which have been presented internationally in a range of art spaces, theaters and academic contexts: Anthroposcenes (2017) with João dos Santos Martins, Geophagy (2018), and Fossil (2020). One of their most recent works — Spillovers (2023) — proposes a collectively imagined...