Back in November, Kuma International was invited by Rete ONG ETS to curate the Autumn School of the “Art for Change” project in Torino — marking our first official collaboration in Italy.
From 17 to 20 November, at Fondazione Amendola, we led four days of workshops, screenings, and discussion dedicated to art, memory, and gender-based violence.
We worked together with Forme in Bilico APS — artist Irene Pittatore, trainer Isabelle Demangeat, and curator Lorena Tadorni — who presented the powerful project “L’amavo troppo e le ho sparato”. Photographer Fiorella Costantini shared Stories of Legacy, giving voice to Bosnian youth born after the war and offering a perspective of coexistence and future-building. As part of the programme, filmmaker Ado Hasanović presented his film “My Father’s Diaries”, opening a collective reflection on memory, responsibility, and inherited narratives.
The Autumn School addressed gender-based violence in its broadest sense, not only violence against women, but all forms of violence rooted in gendered power imbalances — through photography, film, and artistic research. Drawing on our long experience collecting and reworking, through art, the stories of survivors of violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other post-war contexts, we aimed to show how every form of violence, whether against a community or an individual, begins with a mechanism of dehumanization that we can and must resist.
A heartfelt thank you to all participants, to Fondazione Amendola, and to our wonderful project partners.
ART FOR CHANGE was promoted by Rete ONG ETS, Forme in Bilico APS, and ASAI, in collaboration with Accademia Cirko Vertigo, Mamre, Maurice GLBTQ APS, UCI – Uniti per crescere insieme, and Kuma International, co-funded by the European Union and the Piedmont Region through the Connect for Global Change programme promoted by @ongpiemonte
