Could Have Beens

Tate Modern
Transformer Galleries and Tanks 
Ten Days Six Nights
March 24 to April 2, 2017 

CAMP presents a series of works including Windscreen, Capital Circus, One Agreement and Four-letter Film. 

We also host Camera Obscura, an evening with video and talking, on the 29th of March. 

Gallery: Could Have Beens
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

On Display at Tate Modern, Media Networks, till November 2022

CAMP After Media Promises

Nam June Paik Art Center Prize
An exhibition of the "contextually rich, environment-shifting media works of CAMP".

Captial Circus (2009)

in
The Unfaithful Octopus

Camera Obscura

Tate Modern
29th March, 2017, 7:00 pm
South Tank

CAMP: Beginnings

Beginnings is an exhibition tracing some of the conceptual and artistic origins of CAMP. At ARGOS, Brussels as part of new beginnings at ARGOS itself.

Windscreen, 2002

A sculptural allegory about the difference between video and film.
Gateway paper, coffee stirrers, fishing wire, wooden / steel frame, electric fan.

Four letter Film, 2004-2016

A conversation between two people, at the smallest possible bandwidth, that one could call "film", or narrative. Made of four alphanumeric characters, each having 14 segments. First made using Christmas lights in 2004. Remade in 2015.
LED structure, DMX controller, computer.

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 at 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.

At the Berlin Documentary Forum

Unreliable Narrators:
Stings to Leaks to Citizen Vigilantes
Saturday May 31, 2014
6pm to 8pm
HKW Berlin.



Video After Video | The Critical Media of CAMP

We're happy to announce this show.
Organised by Stuart Comer and Rattanamol Singh Johal.
Stay tuned!

A Terrible Beauty

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.

Youth (Spring)

by Wang Bing
232 mins | 2023
6:30 pm*

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

by Johan Grimonprez
150 mins| 2024|
7:00 pm
A story about the encounter of American Jazz and African decolonisation, via the UN and the CIA, with a lot of world around it.

Around the World Again

Join us for a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.
We begin the year with
GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes
2024, 120 mins.
7:00 pm.
in memorium, Tejas Pande.

Geographies of Belonging

Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Streaming on Union Docs.

Far from Philadelphia

Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.

Bombay Tilts Down

Asia Pacific Triennial

Machine Visions

On AI by CAMP

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