Edgware Road: Findings.
An evening of sound and images from the Edgware road.
Saturday, 18 April
6pm-Midnight
at the new
Centre for Possible Studies
14 Porchester Place, W2 2BS (off Kendal Street)
London
(this is an invitee-only event)
Shaina, Ashok, Amal and Janna would like to invite you to spend an
evening with us, and view some materials from our recent research on
the commercial and cultural landscape of the Edgware Road. We have been
collecting a lot of stories and "evidence" around the deep changes
this street has seen in the past century, including at the Old English
Gentleman (for a century known as King's Head, now lebanese-owned, 132 edgware road)
and the Shishawy restaurant (formerly Gala Royal cinema, then Arabic
Centre, Arrimal nightclub, Hilal House and Miramar, 51-53 edgware
road).
These fragments mark the beginning of a web-based and printing project by the
Bombay-based artists group CAMP, as part of the Edgware Road Project: a
Serpentine Gallery initiative in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan – The
Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut, and Townhouse Gallery,
Cairo.
with many thanks to:
Edgware Road Association, Al Arez staff, Shishawy staff,
and the many people in the neighbourhood who have already been generous with their time and timelines.
CAMP
is involved in a 2-year "print-from-web"
project, linked to its own investigations of the infrastructures of commerce and
pleasure in this part of London. As part of the first "block study", we looked at several buildings and their ownership and use histories, and produced a series of tablemats.
The web-based part of the project resides at http://edgwareroad.org. ( now at Print.with.camp ) This website collects materials from various such "studies", conducted by us and
others, which then are collaboratively edited and published in a number of physical forms: volumes, pamphlets and placemats.
This is an ongoing project, as part of the Serpentine Gallery's Public
Program.
featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار
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.
Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
in
The Unfaithful Octopus
at
MAIIAM Contemporary
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.
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.
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
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.
CAMP participated in the conference: Modulating Realities at Sarai, Delhi.
What Can Happen to Paradigms of Control. A keynote lecture by Forensic Architecture Guest Professors Shaina A & Ashok S. At Goldsmiths, University of London.