Cristina Kristal Rizzo
13/07/2026, 06.00 PM
La roccia, il corpo e la danza: intorno all'arte preistorica
Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Paolo Pecere
13/07/2026, 06.00 PM
Talk
Paleolithic cave paintings and engravings are often identified with prehistoric art, the oldest and most enduring trace of human expression and symbolic thought. But those images are traces of practices that engaged the whole body. Starting from photographs of handprints, discs, lines, animal figures, and therianthropes – in caves and on rock shelters – we will trace back to the movements that accompanied their production and viewing, movements that are inseparable from hypotheses about their meaning.
The event is part of the public program curated by Cristina Kristal Rizzo.
Paolo Pecere is a writer and Professor of History of Philosophy at Roma Tre University, and former Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. His research focuses on the connections between modern and contemporary philosophy, natural sciences, psychology, and ethnology. His books include La filosofia della natura in Kant (2009), Dalla parte di Alice. La coscienza e l'immaginario (2015), Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science: A Critical History (Springer, 2020), and La natura della mente (Carocci, 2023). He has published two novels (La vita lontana, 2018; Risorgere, 2019), a philosophy textbook (latest edition, La vita della mente, Mondadori Education, 2026, with R. Chiaradonna), and the narrative essays Il dio che danza. Viaggi, trance, trasformazioni (2021) and Il senso della natura. Sette sentieri per la Terra (Sellerio, 2024; winner of the Russo Pozzale Prize and the Val d'Aosta Prize).
