In this performance-lecture, Raffaele Rufo explores grief as a generative force for ecological responsiveness. Through ecosomatic practices—where movement, ritual, and embodied perception converge—the work proposes a collective space of mourning for forests in decline. The body becomes a vessel of listening, memory, and reciprocity, evoking gestures of care and ecological kinship. Situated within the framework of the GAIA International Congress at Madrid Complutense University “The Earth as Body: Matter, Senses and Performativity”, this presentation bridges theory and practice, offering performative actions that reframe mourning not as paralysis but as a pathway to regenerative connection with a more-than-human world.

Hosted by the Fine Arts Faculty, Complutense University of Madrid.