Terra Nullius

Terra Nullius is the Latin term in international law to designate territories belonging to no one that can consequently be occupied. There are still to this day Terra Nullius territories such as: Bir Tawill (an unclaimed strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), Antarctica, international waters and the Moon. But Terra Nullius also has a poetic meaning. The idea of an unexplored territory, a kind of oasis of freedom where we could restart and rethink our idea of what society is.

Paula Diogo spent a year in Reykjavík where she developed a project that tried to capture the ‘experience of place’ by intermingling it with personal and collective narratives. To do this, she makes use of two simple activities: walking and writing.  In the last two years, TERRA NULLIUS has been migrating slowly from Iceland to Portugal and now reaches D. Maria II in the format of an audio-walk. It’s a project that spills over and beyond the theatre space to occupy a city’s urban geography and the virtual space of discussion and thought.

The course starts next to the river, 400 meters away from Lux Frágil, and ends at D. Maria II. Meeting point here.