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. 

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

CAMP Study Day
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.

Reading Listening Seeing, Bombay Tilts Down
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Moma)

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai
May 19, 2025
Light Industry, NY

at
Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.

TIME FLICKERS
April 26, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.

April 25, 2025 Afterwaste

A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
first draft gathering
March 22, 2025
CAMP studio

"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.

Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP
Feb. 20, 2025 - July 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

Organised by Stuart Comer and Rattanamol Singh Johal.

Phantas.ma Season - II
Feb. 17, 2025 - July 20, 2025

Phantas.ma is running a season dedicated to CAMP as part of Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP at MoMA.
A video a day, on the site.
sign up!

The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm
Feb. 2, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty
Jan. 25, 2025
CAMP Studio

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.

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