2018 Program
Event #34
Matteo Nucci, Davide Livornese
The community of theatre
According to Nietzche’s famous claim, Greek tragedy was born “from the spirit of music”. When, more than 2.500 years ago, the citizens of Athens began filling the bleachers of the Theatre of Dionysus, empathizing with the painful affairs unfolding on stage and allowing themselves to be captivated by the inebriated, orgiastic music of the choir, they ended up creating one of the most extraordinary communal settings ever experienced in the Western world. Accompanied by the words of Matteo Nucci and by the Dionysian songs performed by a group of Greek musicians directed by Davide Livornese, the audience will relive the thrill of this long-lost dimension. A conference-performance that will bring the grand issues of the polis to the foreground, discovering that it is still possible to live an aesthetic experience capable of spurring us towards discussion, exchanges and confrontation: the critical foundations of any community.
Matteo Nucci is author of novels, short stories, reportages and essays. He published the novels Sono comuni le cose degli amici (Ponte alle Grazie, 2009) and È giusto obbedire alla notte (Ponte alle Grazie, 2017) both finalist at Premio Strega, together with the novel-essay Il toro non sbaglia mai (Ponte alle Grazie, 2011) and L’abisso di Eros (Ponte alle Grazie, 2018). He translated the translation of Plato’s Symposium (Einaudi, 2009) and the narrative essays Le lacrime degli eroi (Einaudi, 2013) and Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno (Einaudi, 2020). His short stories have been published in collections and magazines, and his reportages on Il Venerdì di Repubblica and L’Espresso and online on minima et moralia. He is editor of a taurine culture website: www.uominietori.it. In September his latest novel Sono difficili le cose belle will be published by HarperCollins.
Davide Livornese was born in Sicily, where he began exploring the expressive potential of guitar music and vocals. He has performed in and founded a number of bands, with musical influences from rock, American indie, jazz, folk and Italian songwriters. He has lived in Milan and currently resides in Athens, where he continues his work researching Greek, Ottoman and Middle-Eastern music at the Ross Daly school.
Event #17
Mario Cucinella
Architecture as a political action and an instrument for territories’ revitalization
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Event #31Approfonditamente
Giulia Alonzo, Marco Belpoliti, Adriana Polveroni, Oliviero Ponte di Pino
Criticism 2.0. Cultural communication in the age of the web
Event #59Children / Kids
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