Local

Local is video work in development.

February - March shooting at Ghosttown studio.

The monologue is a fictionalized version based on conversations with previous Local or Market Maker Elie Ayache (writer of The Blank Swan, The End of Probability, 2010).

Set - Actor - Monologue - Character

The video work tries to escape history by introducing little shifts, little twists. The piece shows the different stages of performance: rehearsal, becoming and being. 

Starting from documentary footage a shift takes place from reality to fiction and back again.

Local moves between two poles of performing and persuading.

Set

In Local the set is the recording studio. This one on one relation shows the set-up of the performance.

Actor
Several actors perform the monologue in 3 acts. The actor is set-up too. Its character becomes ambigue.

Monologue

The monologue itself leads us to another set. A set that is visualized in our imagination, namely the set of the open outcry pit. The audience gets introduced to this open outcry trading pit. The action and reaction of those actors and their set are being described. It is described in slow motion and with speed until the image becomes present.

Character

The character is pro open outcry. He doesn’t see progress in contemporary trading algorithms in which computers replace human traders. His language is affirmative, theatrical, poetic and tragic.

The character defends his position through philosophy namely that of Deleuze and Meillassoux. 

 

photo Dominik Daggelinckx

Screening by the WIELS artists-in-residency at Cinéma Galeries

Cinéma Galeries (Galerie de la Reine 28 Koninginnegalerij / 1000 Brussels) and WIELS launch from January 2013 onwards a monthly program of films and videos made or selected by the artists in residency in contemporary art centre.

07.02.2013 / 8pm

FANNY ZAMAN

DplusOne (2012)
31 min
D plus one is a portrait of a newly installed electronic trade system set in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), for coffee, sesame, maize and beans is in its initial stage. It is a central system set-up according to international standards (i.e. linear, rational, logical, clean and technical). The camera settles itself amongst the traders slowly observing people, interior, comments and gestures until details reveal alternative layers, noise and complexity.

Song Mountain Area, THE CENTRE DIRECTION (2010)
37 min
This Film presents a portrait of a mountain. The mountain is situated in the Chinese district Dengfeng in the centre of Henan province. The mountain base is inhabited and the surrounding area is mainly a mining district. This combination of activities, this coalition of dust and bodies, is it coincidental, collateral or merely a minor detail in the eternal realms of Chinese cosmology?

Publication and part 02 Local

(work in production voor final presentation WIELS Recidency
September 2013)
Currently (from July – December 2012) Fanny Zaman is doing an art residency in WIELS Brussels Belgium where she is working on a publication containing booklet and 2 video works part 01 DplusOne and part 02 Local

D plus one "The random movement of particles suspended in a fluid."

The footage was taken Wednesday 29th of December 2010 from 10 am to 01 pm.
research and presentation WIELS residency 2012

What do we observe?

The setting is the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. ECX is the current centre of control of this new installed Ethiopian market system. Ethiopia today ranks n°5 in the world list of emerging countries by producing primary physical goods (commodities).

Stories, rumours and attitudes

In Ethiopia we started a series of observations, encounters and dialogues with people connected in some way or another with the new founded ECX and the Ethiopian economy. We were looking for relations between macro statements (about a country, a population, a group) and micro experience.

The project challenges our self-awareness and our (in)capacity to critically evaluate the things we perceive.

What do we observe?

Economics.

Macro-statements and micro-reality.
If Ethiopia ranks n°5 in the world list «emerging countries forecast 2011» we have to conclude that this forecast is a primarily a macro-statement from an economical perspective. How is this condition of acceleration reflected in the country? How does this macro-statement relate to the country’s current micro-reality? A whole scaled down to snatches.

What do we observe?

#01 photo (Dominik Daggelinckx) taken at Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia December 2010

We are in the spaces of the ECX in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We see trade on the trading floor of the exchange. We see a carpeted, octagonal space with buyers in kacki and sellers in green. The images are uniform. There is action both in foreground and background. The images are both equal and in constant change.

The project drifts on an observation of details and a constant inversion between foreground and background, between subject and context.

What do we observe?

The interview:
Bharat Kulkarni, Senior manager trading operations, explains the ECX model.
It’s a didactic presentation of an economic model (a macro-model). The attention drifts towards the rhetoric of the presentation, his vocabulary, his choice of words, his accent, the speed of speech.

What do we observe?

The research has a wide scope. By observing the footage already taken, links are created to possible other topics, areas and disciplines to find interesting matches.

ONOMATOPEE
Mai 29 between 3-6 pm
Onomatopee office & projectspace
Bleekstraat 23
5611 VB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
FoAM
June 3
FoAM vzw
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34
1080 Brussels
Belgium

The City of Illusions

©2011, Fanny Zaman

audio/video piece
11:11 min.


In 1991 the Empire collapsed. In the video piece we hear the documented confession (from 2011) of a former civilian of the Soviet Empire talking about “something”, which is not revealed to the viewer. The images we do see are few, looped and slowed down, all shot in Moscow 2001. Does a body still possess information of a former time period and how does it disclose? By erasing the subject (of the confession) from the confession we tried to reproduce speaking bodies. We tried to disclose only the essential information stored in the body.

The samples taken at an interval of 10 years: the collapsing (1991), the images (2001) and the confession (2011) set out the psychological process of unfolding. The elements are placed in position and put in a state of latency. By doing this they become very open screens for projection.

Book and DVD release

price: 20 euro

contact and order: trope-editions@gmail.com

limited edition: 300

Book and DVD release

PART01 SONG MOUNTAIN AREA THE CENTRE DIRECTION presents a portrait of a mountain. The mountain is situated in the Chinese district Dengfeng in the centre of Henan province. The mountain is holy and the area "energetic" and famous for its martial arts tradition.

The mountain base is inhabited and the surrounding area is mainly a mining district. This combination of activities, this coalition of dust and bodies, is it coincidental, collateral or merely a minor detail in the eternal realms of Chinese cosmology?

THE CENTRE DIRECTION is a critical portrait of a mountain at the crossroad of rumours, facts and choreography.

With contributions of Jean-Pierre Rehm (F) and Leslie de Vries (B)

author: Fanny Zaman (B)

publisher: a.pass

book 48 pages

DVD: 37 min.

ISBN: 978-94-90500-0-23

price: 20 euro

contact and order: trope-editions@gmail.com

limited edition: 300

Checkpoint Charlie

Video 04:09
in collaboration with Alejandro Petrasso

Sunday
21st of June 2009
10:30 am
Checkpoint Charlie is the most photographed spot in Berlin.
Question:
What do you capture here?

The startingpoint of the project was our interest in the relation between the material setting (the data) of Checkpoint Charlie and the stories this setting generated by its visitors.

1.What concreet material makes up the setting?
2.Which stories does the material of the setting generate?


 

Video piece by Fanny Zaman and Alejandro Petrasso made in the context of the lab in In-transit performance festival Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin