The Country of the Sea

Dec. 20, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017

Single-exposure solar cyanotype print on cotton fabric
2015
16 X 5 feet
at Experimenter, Kolkata 
Raster-Emerging from the grid 
November 18 to December 31, 2016 

CAMP with Shunya Collective present a large solar cyanotype map of the sea, part of the long-term maritime project Wharfage. 

More than 100 cities and small ports from Khor al Zubair/ Basra to the Mozambique corridor from North-South, and from Bharuch to Berbera East to West, are marked as frontier towns. The sea in between is proposed as its own “country”, a new geographical and cultural entity. 

Gallery: The Country of the Blind

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The Country of the Sea

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

In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises
July 15, 2023 - Sept. 24, 2023
Sharjah Art Foundation

Featuring The Country of the Sea

March 19, 2022 For All Vahanvatti

For All Vahanvatti is designed to help a group think from the sea, rather than from the land. CAMP with Reliable Copy Propositions.
Indigo Waves and Other Stories:
April 20, 2023 - June 4, 2023
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
featuring The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" and The Country of the Sea
Organised by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Natasha Ginwala, Hajra Haidar.

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Sept. 11, 2019 - Dec. 7, 2019
Dubai

At Body Building
Ishara Art Foundation

Wharfage

At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2009, from where a large number of ships leave for Somali ports.

Country of the Sea
Jan. 31, 2018 - Feb. 4, 2018
HKW, Berlin

CAMP at Transmediale 2018, Berlin with reprinted Wharfage, The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" Exhibition and The Country of the Sea cyanotype.



Events

Broken Cameras
April 4, 2024 - May 5, 2024
Salt Beyoğlu, Online

featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار

March 30, 2024 Re-Visioning Indian Cinema

Shaina A speaks about CAMP's past-present-future project and indiancine.ma at CSMVS in conjuction with A Cinematic Imagination: Josef Wirsching & the Bombay Talkies.
What the Cameras Saw and Remembered
March 16, 2024 - March 17, 2024
Capitol Cinema, Melbourne

Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Captial Circus (2009)
March 9, 2024 - July 15, 2024
Chiang Mai

in
The Unfaithful Octopus
at
MAIIAM Contemporary

To See is To Change
March 1, 2024 - April 27, 2024
RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne

with Bombay Tilts Down (2022) and A Photogenic Line, (2019) as part of Photo 24, Melbourne.
In this pair of large-scale works, CAMP explore two sides of their practice; one that produces experimental film and video, often with unusual equipment and angles of participation, and another that creates and animates archives of moving images, documents and photography.

Closing Party! BOMBAY TILTS DOWN
Jan. 21, 2024 - Jan. 21, 2024
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai

Low-End Therapy
By Swadesi crew Kaali Duniya (Bamboy/Tushar Adhav) with guest MC's Kranti Naari, Pratika, MC Mawali, Khabardar Revolt.
BassBrahma and RaakShas Sound
Equality on the dance floor.

READING LISTENING SEEING Bombay Tilts Down
Jan. 12, 2024 - Jan. 20, 2024
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
12 January 7 pm, ft. Bamboy
13 January 6 pm
14 January 7:30 pm
20 January 7 pm

Bombay Tilts Down in Mumbai!
Jan. 12, 2024 - Jan. 21, 2024
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai

7-channel environment. 13 mins, on loop with two alternating soundtracks

A vertical landscape movie in facets. Filmed remotely by one CCTV camera from a single-point location atop a 35-floor building on E. Moses Road during the pandemic.

Dec. 15, 2023 at Networks of Sonic Thinking, Sarai.

CAMP participated in the conference: Modulating Realities at Sarai, Delhi.
Nov. 22, 2023 A Road, Twelve Water Systems, Sixty Thousand Movies...

What Can Happen to Paradigms of Control. A keynote lecture by Forensic Architecture Guest Professors Shaina A & Ashok S. At Goldsmiths, University of London.
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