Joana Rita is an antidisciplinary artist and researcher working across performance, visual arts, poetry, and social practice. They center practices for inhabiting damaged ecologies and imagining liveable futures, with a particular focus on the intersections of gender, trauma, chronic illness, and environmental entanglements.

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They shapeshift between theory and practice, creating work that engages the sensing body, imagination, and relational ways of knowing. Their projects span installations, text-based work, participatory performance, and site-responsive practices, often unfolding outside of conventional artistic spaces.

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Their background includes community-based theater, arts education, and social practice with diverse groups. They have been a mentee in European Alternatives’ Room to Bloom program for ecofeminist artists and an artist-in-residence at The Sable Arts Project and the Museum of Everyday Life. Their work has been presented in Portugal, Catalonia, and the United States, and their research on queer methodologies and creative practice has been shared at international conferences.

Joana Rita is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Lisbon. They trained in immersive theater with Teatro de los Sentidos (Catalonia, 2018–2020) and studied theater, ecology, and public action at Bennington College (USA, 2014–2018).

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Alongside their creative practice, they have been deeply engaged in communal living and regenerative agriculture, and have trained in Buddhist philosophy, somatics, expressive arts therapies, clowning, puppetry, and herbal medicine— all of which are woven into their offerings.