Le baccanti di Euripide e il museo incarnato: un simposio di ricerca a Moyseion
Organized by Moyseion Matera
Description
In the heart of the Sassi of Matera, Moyseion—the world's first inhabited museum—hosts the research and cultural experimentation symposium "Euripides' Bacchae and the Incarnate Museum" on Saturday, May 30. A full day of dialogue between archaeology, anthropology, theater, and philosophy, starting with a reinterpretation of Euripides's last tragedy.
The meeting stems from a desire to explore how The Bacchae—a work written on the threshold of its author's death and performed posthumously in 405 BC—continues to interrogate the present. In Euripides's drama, the conflict between Dionysus and Pentheus becomes a lens through which to interpret the unresolved tension between rationality and instinct, between power and ritual, between the norm that orders and the body that resists. A text that offers no answers but contains them all, leaving the listener to choose. The Symposium brings together archaeologists, anthropologists, philologists, curators, filmmakers, and researchers in a multidisciplinary discussion on the relationship between embodied myth, the body, and living knowledge, with the aim of creating a space for collective and unconventional reflection.
The speakers will include:
Professor Elisa Bellato, Anthropologist and Museologist, Academy of Fine Arts of Venice
Angelo Bianco, Art Critic, Southeritage Foundation
Professor Marina Brancato, Anthropologist, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence
Professor Angela Carcaiso, Theater Director
Professor Francesca Cominelli, Cultural Economist, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Dr. Luigi Crimaco, Archaeologist
Dr. Veronica Mecchia, Photographer, Paris
Dr. Susanna Ravelli, Curator, "Casa degli Artisti," Milan
Dr. Giulia Ricci, Author, Rome
Professor Dimitris Roubis, Archaeologist, University of Basilicata
Professor Antonio Salerno, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Professor Claudio Schiano, Classical Philologist, University of Bari