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Setting III Song Mountain area, THE CENTRE DIRECTION


Fanny Zaman
Fanny Zaman -- Fri 24 Jul 2009
Audio Video work single screen 37:49
English subtitled

In March 2009 the project started at Song Mountain, a mountain range which lies on the southern bank of the Yellow River in China. It will mainly revolve around martial arts and religion in the form of performance, choreography, group, landscape and setting. The project is interested in a correlation between geography and choreography. The approach will be like making an inventory bound by the time of one month aiming to reveal inspiring figures and shapes and form stories of interest.


My aims and interests are to observe large scale pattern and choreography in the form of martial arts and industrial sites on a location that is concidered 'energetic'.

The landscape of Song-mountain is characteristic and pronounced. Apart from religion and martial arts, the naturally rich soil has also produced industry. This industry has significantly changed the lay out of the landscape. This makes the interaction between the surroundings and the industry visible and concrete. The interface between surroundings and industry has stipulated the patterns of and the figures in the lay out. This lay out or composition that evolves and transforms, sometimes gradual, sometimes radical, can be seen as a form of choreography. The industrial sites are set up and organised in the way that the division and structure of the soil has indicated it.







The martial arts school of the 'Shaolin Temple' is the best known but not the only school in the area. The modern district of Dengfeng is situated in the valley approx. fifteen kilometers southeast of the 'Shaolin Temple' and has eighty-three martial arts schools harboring over forty-thousand students. These schools concentrate on the main road leading from the district to the 'Shaolin Temple'.
The 'Shaolin Temple' proves to be a powerful epicenter with a gathering effect.

Thousands of students practice outdoors daily and are thus a part of the landscape of Song-mountain. The group-choreography taking place is a choreography originating from training, not from a show or parade.
The organization of these places of practice is interesting. What is the division like, the lay out, the surface, the colour? What attributes are present and how are they organized?

We observe the number of students and their division in the landscape, in the indoor settings , their clothes: color and pieces, weapons, flags and attributes, the pattern of the training, the recurrence, the sound of the training: voice, cries, songs, touching of music/fighting instruments, walls and floors, the sound of the environment, wind, industry, etc.
The set-up of the recording is repetitive because this set-up makes the figures and stories visible.






Dengfeng is a modern district located in the centre of China.
It is said that the number of martial arts students practising in this area should be around seventy-thousand.
It is said that this makes half of the entire population.












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