The closing episode of Radio GAMeC 30+ is online. This season featured on the digital platform of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo is dedicated to the major changes that have shaped recent history.
The episode The Gaza War has been released on March 18, on the occasion of National Remembrance Day for the Victims of Covid-19, six years after the launch of Radio GAMeC, founded in 2020 in response to the health emergency in the city of Bergamo.
A constantly evolving media project, Radio GAMeC has become established over the years as a space for discussion and in-depth analysis, giving a voice to key figures in international contemporary culture and local public life alike.
In Radio GAMeC 30+, the testimonies of international artists who personally experienced significant events between 1989 and 2024 have guided listeners along a journey led by Lorenzo Giusti and curators Ilaria Gianni and Alice Labor. The program has addressed crucial themes that have profoundly shaped recent history, with the aim of exploring key nodes in a complex and ever-changing reality, in keeping with the dialogue format that has always characterized the platform.
2023 – The Gaza War (Episode 36)
Guest: Rosalind Nashashibi
Led by Lorenzo Giusti
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The episode is dedicated to The Gaza War, which erupted following Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and to the subsequent Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has caused a high number of civilian casualties, widespread destruction, and a severe humanitarian crisis that continues to spark alarm and concern globally.
Lorenzo Giusti discusses this with the Palestinian-British painter and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi (London, 1973), inviting her to describe how she has observed this conflict and how it has influenced her personal and professional life.
In her films, Nashashibi has traveled through Palestine and the Gaza Strip on multiple occasions, offering a poetic and political perspective constructed through non-linear narratives that interrogate the contradictions and suffering of these territories. In her practice, which explores collective histories, power structures, and scope for coexistence, the everyday dimension is transformed into a mythical and ambiguous presence capable of giving voice to stories that have often gone unheard.
Among the 36 episodes of this season, those dedicated to events that have had a decisive impact on international political balances and contemporary geopolitical structures stand out, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in Bosnia, the 9/11 attacks, the Arab Spring, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These were complemented by segments dedicated to processes of civil mobilization, such as the first WorldPride, the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the emergence of the #MeToo movement, events which helped redefine public discourse and policies regarding inclusion, equality, and the recognition of rights.
Ample space has also been given over to the themes of scientific and technological progress and the evolution of digital media, which have profoundly impacted the ways in which information and social relations are produced, circulated, and consumed: from the birth of the World Wide Web and the early virtual social platforms such as Second Life and Facebook, to major scientific milestones, including the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and global events that have profoundly impacted public health and society, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
Furthermore, the growing centrality of environmental issues has emerged from the narrative of a series of emblematic events and phenomena: from the reappearance of the wolf in the Alps, indicative of transformations in ecosystems and biodiversity conservation policies, to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and on to the contemporary climate mobilizations of Fridays For Future, which brought the issue of environmental sustainability back to the center of the international public agenda.
Radio GAMeC 30+ has witnessed the participation of: Jaishri Abichandani (1969, Mumbai), Marwa Arsanios (1978, Beirut), Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė (1983, Kaunas), Berkveldt (Noëlle Ingeveldt, 1988, and Juriaan van Berkel, 1987, The Netherlands), Chiara Bersani (1984, San Rocco al Porto), Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981, Polokwane), Chto Delat (collective founded in 2003 in Saint Petersburg), Valentina Desideri (1982, Rome), Bontaro Dokuyama (1984, Fukushima), Cheryl Dunn (1960, New York), Denise Ferreira da Silva (1963, Rio de Janeiro), Amy Franceschini (1970, Patterson), Vaiva Grainytė (1984, Kaunas), Thomas Hirschhorn (1957, Bern), Emily Jacir (1972, Bethlehem), Eduardo Kac (1962, Rio de Janeiro), Šejla Kamerić (1976, Sarajevo), Linda Chiu-han Lai (1957, Hong Kong), Lina Lapelytė (1984, Kaunas), Lynn Hershman Leeson (1941, Cleveland), Olia Lialina (1971, Moscow), Kateryna Lysovenko (1989, Kyiv), Jacopo Milani (1979, Florence), Rosalind Nashashibi (1973, London), Francis Offman (1987, Butare), Abdul Wasi Rahraw Omarzad (1964, Kabul), Alexandra Pirici (1982, Bucharest), Luca Pozzi (1983, Milan), Wilfredo Prieto (1978, Sancti Spíritus), Jon Rafman (1981, Montreal), Tabita Rezaire (1989, Paris), Gabriele Stötzer (1953, Emleben), Chaw Ei Thein (1969, Yangon), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (1973, Prague), Amalia Ulman (1989, Buenos Aires), Ana Vaz (1986, Brasília), Dominique White (1993, Essex), Kandis Williams (1985, Baltimore), Héctor Zamora (1974, Mexico City).
Listen to the complete season HERE