[spectre] No Shape Stays Innocent: Carlo Zanni, Opens December 25th (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum]

ALEXANDRIA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM (ACAF)
 
Multipistes & Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) Present
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No Shape Stays Innocent: Two Film Projects by Carlo Zanni
25 December 2007 – 2 January 2008
Opening: Tuesday 25 December, 7 pm
 
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No Shape Stays Innocent: Two Film Projects by Carlo Zanni
Multipistes a multi-stage collaborative contemporary arts project 
<www.multipistes.org>
and Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) invite you to the North 
African-Middle East premieres of two of Milan/New York based artist 
Carlo Zanni's film projects. 'No Shape Stays Innocent' incorporates the 
films 'My Temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar' and 
'The Possible Ties between Illness and Success' into an 
interdisciplinary installation that includes drawings, posters and site 
specific spatial interventions.
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Carlo Zanni
< www.zanni.org >
Carlo Zanni’s work is focused on the intersection of computation and 
representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting, 
and Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting 
themes such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social 
economy/special effects. Zanni creates his own real time digital 
worlds, structuring them so that Internet feedback can take the lead in 
shaping the visual and real-world related information that they 
project. In recent years, Zanni’s work has been shown worldwide in 
galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New 
Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York 
(2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Borusan 
Center for Culture and Arts - Istanbul (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, 
Geneve (2003); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001).
 
My Temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar
< www.fromthesunsetterrace.com >
Set in the city of Ahlen, Germany, "My Temporary Visiting Position from 
the Sunset Terrace Bar", imitates an amateur's film of the landscape 
framed at sunset. While the city strip is pre recorded 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 
author Ghada Samman and music by the international band Gotan Project 
and well known composer Gabriel Yared.
 
The Possible Ties between Illness and Success
< www.thepossibleties.com >
Is a short movie transformed by an Internet data flux and re-edited 
server-side when web statistics (Google Analytics) are available: the 
public can watch a new movie every day. Daily renderings are available 
at the website. The core idea of the work is the relationship between 
manic-depressive illness forms and success at large, a theme it 
symbolically tracks through the filming of an ill man lying in bed and 
the presence of his partner (actress Stefania Orsola Garello). The 
man’s body (actor Ignazio Oliva) progressively fills with stains: 
quantity and position depend on the number of users (and country of 
origin) visiting the website. The more users, the more stains, thus 
causing the "illness" to spread all over the body. The public grants 
success while appropriating the body of the artist. Music for the film 
is by Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, Cold Mountain); the 
voice-over's words are taken from the last page of American Purgatorio, 
a novel by Brooklyn based writer John Haskell.
 
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10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt. E: 
office at acafspace.org T: +20 (0)3 4804145, Opening Times: 3-9 pm 
Tuesday-Sunday
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