Thursday, July 16, 2026 – Domus Artist Residency
First Panel – 9:00–11:00 AM : Care and Marketing: Alliance or Contradiction?
Moderator: Romina De Novellis (performance artist, anthropologist, founder & artistic director of Domus Artist Residency)
Speakers: Thierry Jobard (bookseller and essayist) / Simona Cleopazzo (writer) / Chiara Fontò (biologist)
Second Panel – 11:15 AM–12:45 PM : Care and Contemporary Art: Strengths, Limits, Methodologies, Approaches, Contradictions
Moderator: Marta Ponsa (Domus scientific committee, art historian, head of artistic projects and cultural activities at Jeu de Paume)
Speakers: Valeria Raho (Curatrice indipendente e dottoranda in Studi di genere – UNIBA) / Benedetta Carpi De Resmini (Director of Latitudo Art Projects, curator and art critic)
Workshop with Cecyntè APS – 2:30 PM Workshop on Gestures and Emotions of Care
Third Panel – 6:00 PM : Ecologies of Care: University, Research, Culture
Moderator: Rafael Pic (Domus scientific committee, Editor-in-Chief of Le Quotidien de l’Art)
Speakers: Nicola Ciracì (President, Academy of Fine Arts of Lecce) / Carola Esposito Corcione (University of Salento delegate for placement and alumni network) / Francesco Gabellone (Research Director, CNR Lecce) / Luca Bandirali (Rector’s Delegate for Communication and Research Outreach, University of Salento) / Anna Maria Cherubini (Rector’s Delegate for Gender Policies, University of Salento) / Alessia De Blasi (PhD student in Cultural Heritage Sciences, University of Salento) / Fabiola Malinconico (Technical Director of CerMAN - Laboratory for the Study of Ceramics from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds - University of Salento)
Friday, July 17, 2026 – Domus Artist Residency
Fourth Panel – 9:00–11:00 AM : Aesthetics of Care: Art, Body, and Mind
Moderator: Marta Ponsa (Domus scientific committee, art historian, head of artistic projects and cultural activities at Jeu de Paume)
Speakers: Barbara Polla (physician, gallerist, writer) / Mariangela Vergaro (psychologist)
Fifth Panel – 11:15 AM–12:45 PM : Ecologies of Care: Practices of the Living
Moderator: Rafael Pic (Domus scientific committee, Editor-in-Chief of Le Quotidien de l’Art)
Speakers: Alimenta Bistrot Lecce (a space promoting employment for people with physical and cognitive disabilities) / Simone Dimitri (holistic therapist and independent researcher) / Manu Manu Riforesta (environmental protection association)
Screenings – 2:30 PM
Manu Manu Riforesta – "Le Acque effimere di Padula Mancina. Storie di stagni mediterranei in Salento" ("The Ephemeral Waters of Padula Mancina: Stories of Mediterranean Ponds in Salento" 25 minutes)
Macrina Binotti - ‘Maura’ (30 minutes)
Sixth Panel – 6:00 PM : Beyond Care: Feminist Practices Between Denouncement and Transformation
Moderator: Gioia Perrone (director of the In_Residence program at Domus Artist Residency)
Speakers: Rossella Piccinno (artist, professor at the University of Lille) / Grazia Amelia Bellitta (artist) / Macrina Binotti (creator & director of the docu-series DonneLuce, eco-bio-anthropologist, trainer & magister salutis) / Vera Di Lecce (singer, musician, and performer)
Saturday, July 18, 2026 – Domus Artist Residency
Seventh Panel – 9:00–11:00 AM : Figures of Care: Mind, Technology, Relationship
Moderator: Rafael Pic (Domus scientific committee, Editor-in-Chief of Le Quotidien de l’Art)
Speakers: Laurence Devilliers (Professor and CNRS researcher, LISN Laboratory – Sorbonne Université) / Ilio Torre (Clinical psychologist and trainer)
Eighth Panel – 11:15 AM–12:45 PM : Bodies, Subjectivities, Transformations: Posthumanism and Queerness
Moderator: Marta Ponsa (Domus scientific committee, art historian, head of artistic projects and cultural activities at Jeu de Paume)
Speakers: Marco Dell'Omodarme (Associate Professor, École des Arts de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) / Rac Montoro (queer artist)