Canasi VR

The application proposes to discover the village of Nuceta in the old pieve of Rogna in Haute-Corse, by browsing its alleys, its remarkable places and its places of life. You will discover part of the pictorial work of the charismatic character of Joseph-Antoine Canasi. Joseph-Antoine is one of those forgotten individuals among the crowd of Corsicans who emigrated at the beginning of the 20th century. He leaves the discreet and all the more moving testimony of a young soldier involved in the great conflagrations of the past century. This autodidact from the rural world, in love throughout his life with a frenetic passion for archives, perpetuates for sixty years with an inextinguishable flame, his love for the Corsican language and culture. Joseph-Antoine hoarded knowledge and knowledge, in order to constitute an intellectual and spiritual capital. He also wrote, abundantly, hundreds of poems, manuscripts, skillfully illustrated correspondence. Dilettante, virtuoso, endowed with a keen taste for the arts, he became a draftsman, engraver, painter, watercolourist. Versed in the acute and pressing news of his time, he writes among the local and national newspapers, paragraphs, articles. He improvises as a photographer. He is a cellist, fisherman, hunter... The life of this jack-of-all-trades goes through the upheavals and events that have marked the island harshly: the two World Wars, the crisis of 1929, the French colonial empire. But always stands out over the years, over the landscapes and places from which he inevitably brings back the clues of his passage, an imperceptible thread. This thread connects him to Corsica, his native island, and makes him hoard and then archive with an almost compulsive passion, the equivalent of what we have today found at the bottom of more than a hundred boxes, i.e. 40,000 documents. of any kind. The Canasi documentary collection can be consulted in full on the Cultural Media Library of Corsica and the Corsicans (M3C), the first open science platform on Corsica available at the address
http://m3c.universita.corsica