A Photogenetic Line

April 13, 2019 - July 15, 2019
Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata

A 100-foot long branching sequence of cutouts drawing from the photo archives of The Hindu, a 140-year old newspaper.

Cutouts here are a way of reframing existing photographs as new organisms, not to remove their background environments, nor to frame heroic figures, but to create a new boundary or border for the image. This border, interior or exterior, leads one to the next image.

The sequence evolves by following one or more of three basic rules :

a. People in the images grow older, or younger.

b. Things in the background come into the foreground, or vice versa.

c. Two photo captions refer to each other.

The line generated in this way, crosses many perceptual (shape), historical (time) and geographic (political) boundaries. Here, like in cinema, the cut is not a brick wall but an invitation: for increased traffic at any border.

A Photogenetic Line was produced for the Chennai Photo Biennale 2019, curated by Pushpamala N and supported by The Hindu.

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A Photogenetic Line

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Events

In Cameras Res
March 16, 2019 - April 20, 2019
De Appel, Amsterdam

On three screens, a city-symphony filmed by automated CCTV cameras in Amsterdam pushing their optical and motor 'patrolling' capacities to an extreme.

CCTV TV: An evening with CAMP
March 14, 2019 - March 15, 2019
LIMA, Amsterdam

In advance of CAMP's solo at De Appel and in collaboration with LIMA - a screening of two of the studio’s earlier acclaimed projects that examine surveillance, society, and cinematic apparatus.

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New work at the Chennai Photobiennial, drawing from the photo archives of The Hindu, a 140-year old newspaper based out of Chennai.

Jan. 12, 2019 Inhabited sea workshop

CAMP presented at the Inhabited Sea roundtable at IIT Bombay. "An initiative that seeks to create a new imaginary for the terrain of Mumbai."
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Dec. 22, 2018

Save the date for this event with Aajeevika Bureau. The format is, watching 60 projected photographs over two hours, while talking about them. Several photographers will attend.

Nov. 21, 2018 at KRVIA

The Fourth in our series of Archival Journeys, "Part 4: From Bandra North to Khar East". KRVIA Auditorium, from 11 am.
Festival des Trois Continents
Nov. 20, 2018 - Nov. 27, 2018

Celebrates its 40th year with an inventory of 40 films and a publication. CAMPs From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf along with films of Wang Bing, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-Liang, Lav Diaz, Akram Zaatari, Lucrecia Martel, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Abbas Kiarostami...

Evening Landscape from the Control Room
Nov. 18, 2018

From the rooftop of this artists' studio in Chuim Village, you are taken on a virtual tour of the neighbourhood. 90 minutes: Live video, audio and archival print material, with live commentary.

Nov. 14, 2018 at KRVIA

The third in our series of archival journeys through housing in Hamara Shehar. Part 3: From "Right" to "Information", KRVIA Auditorium, from 11 am.
THE NEW MEDIUM III: Multi-Screen Cinema
Oct. 29, 2018 - Oct. 30, 2018
PVR ECX CitiMall, Andheri

A 2-day festival within the Mumbai Film Festival. Sixteen multi-screen films and video installations by pioneering filmmakers and artists, many of them Asian premieres, will be presented in the cinema hall. Curated by Shaina Anand.

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