CCTV Social

In March-April 2008, ShainaA collaborated with a number of agencies in Manchester city to open up CCTV control rooms to members of the public. The Manchester Metropolitan University and the Arndale Mall were the principal venues, and over 30 members of the public were able to attend one-hour 'clinics' in the CCTV rooms. Some results were shown as part of the exhibition 'What do you want?' at Cornerhouse, Manchester from March-April 2008.

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CCTV Social

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Capital Circus, 2008

Filmed at the then largest mall in Europe, the Arndale Center, which had been built over the centre of Manchester town after an IRA bombing in 1992. Filmed using the 208 cameras of the mall, from the control room. Over a hundred subjects were followed after they signed a "release form" combining CCTV and documentary image release protocols.
Part of the project CCTV Social.
27 mins, CCTV video.

In Cameras Res, 2019


De Appel, Amsterdam

On three screens, a city-symphony filmed by automated CCTV cameras in Amsterdam. The optical and motor capacities of these cameras are pushed to an extreme. Certain human subjects reappear near or far in the images, suggesting a form of reciprocal knowledge or intent, a secret pact between cameras and people.

Capital Circus, 2008
Oct. 12, 2023 - Dec. 1, 2023
ADM Gallery, Singapore

as part of
The Unfaithful Octopus
Nanyang Technological University



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CAMP Study Day
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.

Reading Listening Seeing, Bombay Tilts Down
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Moma)

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai
May 19, 2025
Light Industry, NY

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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.

TIME FLICKERS
April 26, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.

April 25, 2025 Afterwaste

A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
first draft gathering
March 22, 2025
CAMP studio

"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.

Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP
Feb. 20, 2025 - July 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

Phantas.ma Season - II
Feb. 17, 2025 - July 20, 2025

Phantas.ma is running a season dedicated to CAMP as part of Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP at MoMA.
A video a day, on the site.
sign up!

The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm
Feb. 2, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

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100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty
Jan. 25, 2025
CAMP Studio

by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities.

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