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
Oct. 15, 2008 - May 16, 2009

At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2008-2009, 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

Far from Philadelphia
Dec. 6, 2024
Widener Hall, Penn Museum, UPENN

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.

Asia Pacific Triennial
Nov. 30, 2024 - April 24, 2025
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Machine Visions
Nov. 21, 2024
Columbia University, New York

On AI by CAMP

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Nov. 14, 2024
Public Trust, Philadelphia

Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.

الجار قبل الدار The Neighbour Before the House
Nov. 7, 2024
12 Gates Art, Philadelphia

Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm

The Neighbour before the House
Oct. 10, 2024
Union Docs, NY

Geographies of Belonging

Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Oct. 3, 2024
Rice University, Houston

From Land to Sea
Sept. 21, 2024
Art Jameel, Dubai

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Vertical Integration
Sept. 19, 2024
Columbia University

We are proposing this term to think more broadly about extraction, waste, dependency, rear-guarding, mediatic conversions, in- and out-sourcing, and other aspects of chains of translation and steps of decision and production.

Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset
Aug. 27, 2024 - Dec. 20, 2024
Center For Experimental Ethnography, UPENN

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)

We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)

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