Joana Rita is an antidisciplinary artist & researcher centered on practices for inhabiting damaged ecologies and imagining livable lives. She shapeshifts between theory and practice and different artistic mediums to activate magic, the sensing body and collective imagination.

Currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Lisbon while based in the Iberian peninsula, she has studied immersive theater with Teatro de los Sentidos in Catalunya (2018-2020) and theater, ecology and public action at Bennington College, VT, USA (2014-2018).
 

Joana Rita has experience in social practice and community-based theater and arts education for people of all ages and has created and performed in gardens, pine forests, meditation spaces, schools and streets. 

Joana Rita was a mentee in European Alternatives’ Room to Bloom program for emerging ecofeminist & decolonial artists and has been an artist in residence at The Sable Arts Project and the Museum of Everyday Life. She has shared academic research on queer methodologies and creative practices at international conferences. Her artistic work has been shown in Portugal, Catalonia and the United States and her mail art projects have been sent to 8 different countries.
 

 Joana Rita has been deeply involved in communal living and regenerative agriculture projects as well as participated in trainings, conferences and workshops on environmental grassroots organizing, sustainability, clowning, puppetry, expressive arts therapies, somatics and traditional herbal medicine, all of which she brings forth through her offerings.