Performance artist and researcher. Non-binary lesbian. Natalio is currently preparing a double doctorate in Art Studies and Anthropology with an FCT scholarship, with a focus on the Anthropocene and perceptions of humanity-nature. Natalio works primarily with poetry, dramaturgy and performance, and is presently involved with the creation of a series of lecture-performances (“Anthroposcenes” 2017, “Geophagy” 2018, “Fossil” 2020) that are directly linked to her research on climate change and art practice. Natalio holds a BA in Choreographic Arts (University Paris VIII) and a MA in Contemporary Culture, and has also published two poetry books, Handicraft (2015) and Human plants (2017). Together with André e.Teodósio, Rita was co-editor of a Portugal-based publishing project, Ed. __________, which is dedicated to the performing arts and a broader range of aesthetic and political studies. In 2019, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Rita co-organised a showing of Amerindian cinema with indigenous filmmakers and curators, along with a collective platform of researchers and activists from Portugal, namely the Ailton Krenak. Since 2020, Rita Natalio is also the coordinator of TERRA BATIDA network, a network of people, practices and knowledge that contests ecological violence and the politics of abandonment. Its annual residency programmes enable artists, scientists and activists to come together to address socio-environmental conflicts in specific territorial contexts. The research projects and artistic works that emerge from these programmes are then shared with the public via discussions, performances, experiences, texts, walking tours, etc.