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".

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.



From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

ZOOM

A newly commissioned video performance in the "Grand Stair".

Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar

The Neighbour Before The House
Film screening followed by discussion with CAMP
M+ Afterimage Cinema

In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises

Featuring The Country of the Sea

Inlaks Fine Art Awardees 2023: Open Studio

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.

Book Opening

Midnight's Third Child
Readings, Screenings and Discussions
with Naeem Mohaiemen

An Evening with CAMP

This artist talk accompanies Signals: How Video Transformed the World.
Organised by Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo and Rattanamol SIngh Johal.

Indigo Waves and Other Stories:

Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
featuring The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" and The Country of the Sea

All Events