Carlo Zanni
www.zanni.org/index.html

My temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar
Data-cinema project, 2007–2008 

Set in the city of Ahlen, Germany, My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar imitates amateur film of a landscape framed at sunset. While the city view is prerecorded, the sky is captured in real time from a webcam shooting the sky of Naples (Italy) at sunset and, as such, always changing.

The work, confronting themes such as exile, migration, and border control, is enhanced by a poem by Ghada Samman and music by the band Gotan Project and composer Gabriel Yared. It can be seen either in live or in archive mode, in which it is shown in the Quadrilateral Biennial. The projection will feature films selected by the artist from the archive. Each of the 13 films depicts a different sky derived from data recorded in Naples, from November 21st 2007, until July 2008. The entire archive can be accessed at the following address: http://www.zanni.org/index.html