Spontaneous Human Combustion is a concept that gathers reports on the combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without an apparent external source of ignition.

SCH is a fiction about bodies, it’s about their capacity of making choices and decisions, about the marks we want to keep or remove, about regeneration and the possibility of a spontaneous combustion.

To use fire that burns and kills marginalized bodies to fictionalize body and skin. To decide about the past so that the future can be changed, as a cure, a revisitation.

I propose a sensorial body, a genital-skin, an erotic-skin, an erogenous-skin, a total-skin – a mechanism to a whole sensation, in ecstasy.

Eduardo Batata is a Performer and Stage Director based in Lisbon.
Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and a Master’s degree in Performing Arts. They develop a multidisciplinary artistic practice with focus on Queer investigation and have presented many works: Onanismos, (2019, Teatro do Silêncio), Ébrio (2019, RG6) and Slot (2021, Queer Lisboa). They have participated in collective projects: disseminário and interfluências at RG6, and Higieniz.art.