RE:akt! Action #10: Interactive Lighthouse < home "To die is not enough." (Gabriele D'Annunzio)  Description Gabriele D'Annunzio on September 12, 1919 led the seizure of the city of Fiume (Rijeka), forcing the withdrawal of the inter-Allied occupying forces. On September 8, 1920 he proclaimed the city to be under the Italian Regency of Carnaro puting into effect the so called Carta del Carnaro, a constitution coauthored with anarcho-syndicalist Alceste De Ambris that combined anarchist, proto-fascist, and democratic republican ideas establishing a corporatist state, with nine corporations to represent the different sectors of the economy, and a tenth to represent poets, prophets, heroes, and supermen. The charter is notorious for designating "music" to be the fundamental principle of the state. The self-proclaimed state never received any recognition (except from Lenin) and in December it was replaced by the Free State of Fiume after a bombardment by the Italian navy. "Rijeka 1919: Interactive Lighthouse" is an architectorial proposal to the City of Rijeka to "re-envoice" the Charter of Carnaro though a new high-tech interactive lighthouse functioning as a minaret. Each time a ship will approach the city's harbor the lighthouse will sing loudly an article of this peculiar Constitution.

Rijeka 1919: Interactive Lighthouse       Subject: RE:akt! Action: Rijeka 1919 Location: Rijeka's harbour, Rijeka, Croatia Date: Nov. 2008   Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Producer: Marcela Okretic Co-Production: Drugo More (Croatia) Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia the Municipality of Ljubljana the Municipality of Rijeka the European Cultural Foundation www.reakt.org powered by