as part of
The Unfaithful Octopus
Nanyang Technological University
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The Unfaithful Octopus
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.
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.
A 200-year neighbourhood story told through a single camera mounted on a cinema hall, 90 minutes.
Opening event
The New Medium II: Footage Films
Friday 13th Oct 2017
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
IMAX at PVR Phoenix
also
Monday 16th Oct 2017
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
PVR Phoenix 6
In March 2008 Shaina Anand collaborated with Manchester Metropolitan University and Arndale Shopping Centre to open working CCTV environments to a general audience. People normally 'enclosed' by these networks came into the control rooms to view, observe and monitor this condition, endemic in the UK.
CCTV social premiered on April 3rd at Cornerhouse Manchester, as part of Asian Trienale Manchester 08, organised by Shisha. The show, titled what do you want, feautred five artists from India and was curated by Kathy Rae Huffman.
Shaina @ Cornerhouse
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.
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Caillou Film Festival
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
SYDNEY OPERA
Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, performative media, emancipated spect-actors, publics at the heart of practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Shaina 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.
Marking 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation.
Shaina A went to study Film and Media arts under the Inlaks scholarship in 1999.
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.
Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण