Country of the Sea
Jan. 31, 2018 - Feb. 4, 2018
HKW, Berlin
Single exposure solar cyanotype print on cotton fabric
CAMP with Shunya collective and Clark House Initiative
22 x 5 feet
An image of the sea as its own “country”, with frontier towns at its edges disorients an easy reading of this territory
An exhibition that builds upon photos of another exhibition that was made of photos of....
Feature-length travelogue by sea between western India, eastern Africa and the Persian gulf. First shown at a purpose built outdoor cinema on the creekside in Sharjah in 2013, where many of the sailors gather. Shown in Documenta 13 in an abridged form, as part of the installation The Boat Modes.
83 mins. Original format(s): HDV, SDV, VHS, Cellphone videos (variable). Stereo audio and in-cameraphone music.
CAMP presented at the Inhabited Sea roundtable at IIT Bombay. "An initiative that seeks to create a new imaginary for the terrain of Mumbai."
On Display at Tate Modern, Media Networks, till November 2022
At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2009, from where a large number of ships leave for Somali ports.
A journey with CAMP’s five-year Wharfage project and related maritime explorations.
A non-imperial view from the 'Other Boat', counter to images of the 'distressed seas'. With a presentation and screening of From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf at Transmediale 2018.
As politics fail, nationalist ideologies gain traction, and segregative tendencies multiply, an urge for a new, different “we” becomes apparent...
(An exhibition building upon photos of another exhibition, and more)
General Rehearsal A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST
A projection of film clips known and unknown, footage seen and unseen, documents and photographs, and voices of filmmakers present and past.
On the occasion of the Bombay launch of
John Ghatak Tarkovsky : Citizen, Filmmakers, Hackers
by Ashish Rajadhyaksha.
7:00 pm, Sunday June 11
MOVE STAY OR DISAPPEAR
Saturday, June 10th 2023, 6pm onwards.
An outcome of a 6-week residency at CAMP in Chuim village Khar, a continuing dialogue with each other and with the studio.
Midnight's Third Child
Readings, Screenings and Discussions
with Naeem Mohaiemen
This artist talk accompanies Modern
Mondays and Signals: How
Video Transformed the World.
Organised by Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo and Rattanamol SIngh Johal.
Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
featuring The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" and The Country of the Sea
Remembering Chandita, the origins of COMET and Bharat Ki Chaap https://phantas.ma/chanditam-bkc Her annotated essay, 2014
Book and Web launch of a video art theory project by Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben. Includes a presentation of their multi-format essay on njp.ma.
Bombay Tilts Down
13m 14s looped, seven channel environment
2022
Talk by Shaina A in conversation with Gahee Park at the Seoul Museum of Modern Art, about the Wharfage publication and From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf .
