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. 

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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

The Neigbhour Before the House
March 26, 2026 - March 29, 2026

Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Caillou Film Festival

Boxes, Borders, Biji, Cipta
March 22, 2026
Engine Room, SAM

A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.

25th Biennale of Sydney
March 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026

SYDNEY OPERA
Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country

Feb. 13, 2026 Phantom Publics

Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, performative media, emancipated spect-actors, publics at the heart of practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Feb. 7, 2026 Art in the Age of Anxiety

Shaina joined artists Sheela Gowda, Rekha Rodwittya, Indrapramit Roy, Gigi Scaria and moderator Gayatri Sinha for a conversation inaugurating Intersections- an exhibition commemorating 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation at Arthshila, Delhi.
Intersections Sites of Becoming
Feb. 7, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Arthshila, Delhi

Marking 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation.
Shaina A went to study Film and Media arts under the Inlaks scholarship in 1999.

Feb. 6, 2026 CAMP are recipients of Asia Society’s 2026 Asia Arts Pathbreaker Award
Planetary Public Goods
Jan. 24, 2026

Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.

Night Sweats, and Menggodam
Jan. 10, 2026
CAMP Studio

Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.

Commemorating a Revolution yet to come,
Dec. 23, 2025 - Dec. 27, 2025
Dr. Ambedkar National Memorial, Mahad

Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण

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