GAMeC Director Lorenzo Giusti on Post-Pandemic Change

Lorenzo Giusti, director of GAMeC in Bergamo, reflects on the need for radical change after the pandemic. He argues that absolute problems require supreme efforts, and that the promise of change made during the crisis must now be fulfilled. Giusti recalls the spirit of Bergamo during the pandemic, where volunteers built a field hospital in seven days while singing Atalanta chants. He draws inspiration from historical examples of people singing through hardship, such as partisans, workers, and slaves. Giusti mentions a Radio GAMeC episode where Ragnar Kjartansson performed Gino Paoli's 'Il cielo in una stanza,' and a project by Fondazione Trussardi that played the same song daily at Chiesa di San Carlo al Lazzaretto in Milan. He concludes that change is possible if approached step by step, with a song.