Maria Lùcia Cruz Correia
Artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia’s cross-sectoral and hybrid practice speaks to her deep engagement with the ecological crises as a guardian of nature. Click here to read her piece written for this edition of the ZAT, co-authored with Margarida Mendes, around the methodological framework behind the artistic practice of the collective Natural Contract Lab, whose work A Pact with waters – Communing with Sejoumi was produced by L’Art Rue as a new creation for Dream City 2023.
Maria Lucia Cruz Correia’s cross-sectoral and hybrid practice speaks to her deep engagement with the ecological crises as a guardian of nature. Since 2009, her temporary collaborative processes are like a living organism that grows in kinship with ecologists, rivers, activists, resilient plants, environmental lawyers, and restorative justice practitioners. Correia’s visual installations, action performances, and participatory laboratories express a sense of geo-politics, environmental advocacy, and kinship with the morethan-human-world. Her artistic practice weaves rituals of care, embodied performance, walking-with practice, and social design to fabulate environmental social services, such as “Urban Action Clinic”, “Common Dreams School”, “voice of nature KINSTITUTE” and “Natural Contract lab.” These proposals are attempts to engage communities with tools from the rights of nature, restorative justice, environmental grief, regenerative activism, climate survival, and reciprocal care for critical landscapes.