His challenge here was to occupy the space and organise his visual inventions with the architecture of this monumental place. With “Inferno”, the first part of the triptych, he was faced for the first time with the stage of the courtyard of honour of the Papal Palace. Regularly invited to Avignon, he was an associate artist in 2008, proposing three shows inspired by Dante’s Divina Commedia.
277).A key theatre-maker, Romeo Castellucci has developed an original stage art, a meeting of all artistic expressions, by freeing himself from the primacy of text in favour of the energy of bodies, movement and material. The oracle at Pachacamac, located near present day Lima in southern coastal Peru, was in fact so powerful and highly venerated throughout the coast and highlands that even the Inca built a temple to the Sun (Inti) and to the Virgins of the Sun (mamaconas) at that locality and made offerings of textiles, gold and silver (Salomon and Urioste, 1991 :Chap. Huaca shrines (huacacuna) were powerful social and political places, and as they gained legitimacy worshipers would build temples or platforms and make offerings. Particular emphasis is given to how such Sacred Places are differentiated from secular space and the role(s) ushnus may play in status differentiation and sociocultural development. Huaca is also used here to refer to Sacred Places in the landscape, and how material objects, living things, including people, attain the status of huaca and have distinct symbolic meanings with reference to such places. The concept of huaca is so fluid as to become almost meaningless as an analytical tool unless it is defined specifically with reference to the topic at hand, that is, centers (Fig.
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