The work, confronting themes such as exile, migration and border control, is enhanced by a poem by the esteemed author Ghada Samman and music by the international band Gotan Project and legendary composer Gabriel Yared.
People visiting the website can choose upon two ways to experience the work: a live mode, available only in a specific time frame during the sunset in Naples** (small size) or browsing through the archive where a time accelerated HD version of the movie is rendered every day and archived online***. The project is fully realized with a website created in collaboration with Estudio Soma from Buenos Aires and a poster designed with Wien based studio Sheriff: they both act as complementary vectors investigating the borders of the concept at the core of the work. With “My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar”, Carlo Zanni keeps investigating what he calls DATA CINEMA: a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the use of live data feedback gathered from the Net, to create time based social consciousness experiences.
*“My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar”
is launched in occasion of Nodes, a show involving seven artists and seven
museums in Germany conceived by curator Matthias Weiß (http://www.knotenpunkte.net/).
** The time frame, that has been set to include the sky at sunset, is
dynamic and it changes with seasons.
*** Four HD movies a month are available for public view as well as small
size and local language subtitled versions. Full months archive is not
available for public view (please enquire for questions).
