Seminar
at LUX, Shacklewell Studios, London
17th October, 3pm
This seminar for artists and curators looking at the implications of artists’ film and video in the Archive. We will explore the various historical contexts, conceptual concerns and practical issues facing moving image artists working with archives both in terms of the care and preservation of their work, and accessing archives for research. The workshop will be chaired by LUX Director, Benjamin Cook with the following guest speakers:
Andrew Lampert, Head of Collections, Anthology Film Archives, New York William Fowler, Curator of Artists’ Moving image at the BFI National Archive, London and Shaina Anand, co-initiator of CAMP and http://Pad.ma
The video art programme of the 2021 Asian Art Biennial
Presented by Pad.ma
is an ongoing public-access media archival project, centered around video as a medium of documentation, collection, argumentation and exchange. Its objective is to consolidate, densely annotate, and make available online several scattered collections of video material, to begin with in Mumbai and Bangalore. Pad.ma is a collaboration between oil21.org, CAMP, Majlis, Point of View, the Alternative Law Forum, and other future contributors.
The central event of a month-long gathering organised around the 10th anniversary of Pad.ma the footage archive, and the 5th anniversary of Indiancine.ma.
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, perfomative media, publics at the heart of our practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Shaina Anand joined artists Sheela Gowda, Rekha Rodwittya, Indrapramit Roy, Gigi Scaria and moderator Gayatri Sinha for a conversation inaugurating Intersections- an exhibition commemorating 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation at Arthshila, Delhi.
Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.
Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.
Irina presents ideas from an upcoming co-authored book on cyberfeminism, Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices, out this year.
Guna will speak about a recent exhibition series across South East Asia, the first of which is named Menggodam.
Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण
CAMP took part in the 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme events.