Booklet SHE COUNTS

SHE COUNTS

SHE COUNTS is an installation on the topic of femicides in Italy. The project shows the number of victims of femicide over the past fifteen years through a physical bar chart made of rope and wrapped around the Panchina Rossa in Bolzano’s Piazza Municipio.

The idea of dedicating an installation to this theme came from a research on the number of victims. Observing the data available on femicides in Italy over the past years, makes clear that the phenomen is not properly covered. SHE COUNTS aims to make people aware in the most immediate and visually impactful way of the high number of victims who are registered in Italy every year.

The choice of the location is complementary to the installation itself, since the “Panchina Rossa” in Bolzano’s Piazza Municipio was installed in 2008 as a symbol against violence towards women and femicides. SHE COUNTS makes more explicit the message already embodied in the bench. The infographic wrapped around the metal structure of the bench, shows the annual number of victims of feminicide in Italy from 2007 to 2022.

The graphic is accompanied by the inscription “VOGLIAMO CONTARCI DA VIVE” (“We want to count ourselves alive”) to address passers-by to the main theme of femicides.

We wrapped the 4 mm thick nylon thread around the bars of the bench to create uniform beams.

Each beam constituted one bar of the graph and reached the desired lenght to represent the number of victims.

On each bar of the graph we have applied a label indicating the year and the corresponding number of victims.

We included an inscription and a label to make the theme of the installation more understandable.

The interaction with passers-by since the beginning and throughout the entire duration of the process of the installation was an integral aspect of the project.

POEMS OF TRANSITION is a special project of the visual communication workshop “Exhibition Graphic Design: processes of cultural practice” at the Facul of Design and Art of Bozen-Bolzano. POEMS OF TRANSITION has been developed in parallel with the exhibition L’Offesa at ar/ge kunst, curated by Fran cesca Verga and Zasha Colah, and to the exhibition Poesie e no at Museion, curated by Frida Carazzato. On the occasion of the two exhibitions, seven communication projects were developed during the workshop to interpret themes present in the work of Lucia Marcucci and the ’70s Group through a contemporary perspective. Seven groups of stu dents each elaborated a POEM that expresses their most urgent reflections. The POEMS have been translated into site-specific installations in Bolzano and documented through seven booklets together with the website poemsoftransition.eu

Project Visual Communica tion 1C: workshop leader Elisa Pasqual, with Gianluca Camillini, Gerhard Gluher. Guest lecturer: Luca Lo Pinto, director of MACRO

Exhibition Opening: 9th June at 6 pm

Round table: 10th June at 11 am with Maria Alicata, art historian and curator; Elena Biserna, independent scholar and curator; Frida Carazzato, research cura tor, Museion Foundation;

Francesca Verga, co-arti stic director, ar/ge kunst

Poem n. 01

SLOW DOWN by students

Brandlhuber Stella, Durst Franka, Gassmann Sonja

Poem n. 02

TABOOBS by students

Grasl Elisa, Merler Vivien, Pagliarini Virginia

Poem n. 03

RIFLETTITI by students

Ciccotti Tommaso, Richter Luis, Sponsiello Gabriele

Poem n. 04

SHE COUNTS by students Caron Michela, Del Longo Diana

Poem n. 05

SIAMO GAGA by students Handig Theresa, Lenz Maximiliane, LiebenSeutter Emma

Poem n. 06

THE POWER OF SHAME by students Baumgaer tel Chiara, Piccolo Alice, Truong Michelle

Poem n. 07

STILL A WOMAN by students Alessandroni Giulia, Farinola Alessia, Mendoza Antonio