Cristiano Luchetti
MEDITERRANIA
Birds knew about it. The most dangerous migration is the one between the Sahara desert and the
Mediterranean Sea. Choosing the wrong sea current could be lethal, especially if one does not know
how to swim. Only islands found on the way could offer safe land to rest and hope. The hope for a
return, the hope for reproduction.
For their irresponsibility, inhabitants of the former Eurasia underwent a return to the original/natural
condition: the migration. The interregnum of finance and cyber-capitalism had accomplished its
ephemeral fate. Europe is now completely provincialized from its former colonies throughout the
world, themselves involved in the disastrous global competition.
The abuse of fracking and the drilling of geological maritime extraction for shale-oil and shale-gas had
produced irreversible environmental upheavals: the flooding of land among all.
Countless oil rigs dotted the new landscape, land and sea. The excessive expansion of the Suez Canal,
with the consequent increase in traffic merchant marine, gaped the land giving space to the sea and to
floating artificial implants. The water flow of Nile had become vastly greater than that of the Amazon.
Global warming and melting glaciers did the rest. The morphology of Earth's crust, as well as every
previous geographical boundaries in this part of the world, would be remembered only as an
archaeological cartographic memoir.
The Mediterranean Sea became again a center for the new world. It expanded to such an extent as to
become a proto-Ocean. Its polluted water radically changed its physical and chemical characteristics,
such as salinity, and the maritime fauna. There were no more territories defined by "national" borders.
No countries but transits of sea routes, approximately monitorable by obsolete drones and GPS, still,
badly functioning. The only new "lands" remained habitable by Eurasians were the former oil rigs in
the Neo-Mediterranean Ocean.
“Mediterrania” began as Eurasian Confederation of the Autonomous Communities living on Oil rigs in
the Ocean archipelago of the Mediterranean Sea. A new institution born as a pact of resistanceexistence between peoples. As such, it does not have absolute sovereignty, nor it offers a citizenship
nor a territory. It is a non-state, without borders and ethnic identity. At this point the migration changed
direction and from the north of the world people started to go south, toward PanAfrica. Meanwhile the
African continent closed its borders. Rejected and condemned to permanent nomadism in the sea, the
Eurasian populations was forced to create a new civilization in the Mediterranean living on the former
oil-rigs and among its scraps and the waste produced during its entire industrialization.
Team leader: Cristiano Luchetti. Team: Romano Martini, Ali Al-Sammarraie, Rami Abdelhamid