Promoted by Associazione Archeofuturo since 2018, In-ruins is a residency program dedicated to the encounter of contemporary art and archeology via the transitory settlement of artists, curators and researchers in towns neighboring monumental sites in Calabria. In-ruins rethinks the territory through its past, turns ancient finds into places for encounter, and brings the urgent experimentation of international artists to distant territories from major cultural centres. Rooting its activities within a meridian and Mediterranean horizon, the project aims to valorise both cultural heritage and the traditions, myths and stories of the very communities that guard it.

The 2023 residency is organised in collaboration with Fondazione Elpis and takes place in the Province of Cosenza for the first time, at the Archaeoalogical Park of Sibari. This area of the Calabrian territory, topographically known as Sibaritide, saw the rise, expansion and decline of the great polis of Sybaris. Following the destruction of the Greek city, the Classical center of Thurii and the Roman city of Copia were founded, partially overlapping its ruins. This exceptional stratification makes Sibari one of the largest and most important sites in the Mediterranean up until the Roman Age. The Park includes the Sibaritide National Archaeological Museum, the Horse Park Archaeological Area and the Amendolara National Archaeological Museum.

The 2023 edition of the In-ruins residency concluded with the exhibition project Simposio and comes as an expanded peripato: an artistic, philosophical, cultural and political junction and dock where archaeology becomes fertile ground for magical visions expanding into the interstices of historiographic fragments. A magic and mysterious South resonates, elated with bowels and sky, with hands transforming the landscape and rituals consecrating time.