Iliad #1 Horses

18 maggio | 10.00 am - 12.00 pm | Streaming

Trafissioni dall’Iliade e dagli scritti di Simone Weil

Dramaturgy, imagoturgy Francesco Pititto

Composition, installation, costumes Maria Federica Maestri

Music Andrea Azzali

Performer Tiziana Cappella, Aldo Rendina, Sandra Soncini, Carlotta Spaggiari

Technical care, lights Alice Scartapacchio

Production Giulia Mangini

Curating Elena Sorbi

Organization Ilaria Stocchi

Communication, press office Giovanna Pavesi

Promotion, graphic design Alessandro Conti

Photos Elisa Morabito

Video Lapino Nero

Production Lenz Fondazione

With the collaboration and the support of Università degli Studi di Parma

Department of Humanistic Social and Cultural Business Disciplines

Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences

University Museum System

MuDes Diffused Science Museum – Collection of Veterinary Normal Anatomy “Alessio Lemoigne”

of the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences

Thanks to Equine Team of the Department of Medical-Veterinary Sciences Unipr for their video contributions

Parma, Dipartimento di Scienze Medico-Veterinarie, Collezione di Anatomia Veterinaria, 5 giugno 2025.

Transfiguration in 12 Preparations

Of animal suffering.

For a dissolution of the hierarchical determination of the living. First chapter of anatomical/dramaturgical work on Homer's Iliad and the structures that define the suffering of the human animal and the non-human animal in an analysis of violence, destructive act and war.

But, as it stops this column, which is above a tomb

it arises straight, of a deceased man, of a deceased woman,

firm they stood, motionless holding the beautiful chariot,

sticking their heads to the ground; and they ran to the ground

warm tears, with eyelashes: out of lust for their lord

they weeped; and he smeared his thick mane on the ground,

down from the effused collar, on one side and on the other side of the yoke.

Some of the brief moments that illuminate the desertified landscape of the Homeric epic also involve horses, particularly in the seventeenth Book Xanthus and Balius, given by their father Peleus to Achilles, Immortal Animals with the gift of speech and foresight.

Upon the death of Patroclus, who led them in the clash with Hector, the two horses petrified by grief decide not to fight anymore. By mourning the death of their human companion, they escape the horror of war and the imperative of violence.

The sensitive knowledge of the Animal is a form of knowledge to inspire our contemporary feeling, and it is this thought that permeates CAVALLI, a process of transfiguration in twelve anatomical preparations, chosen from those present in the Veterinary Anatomy Collection of the University of Parma, to give substance to an ethical and poetic vision in which the “non-human” animal is considered as unique and unrepeatable as the human.

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