From Janta Colony to Janta Colony

(imaginary to destroyed)
A Journey through Housing in Bombay 
Part-I: 1950 to 1982
Tuesday, 29th November, 2016
6:30 pm to 9 pm

From "Shehar aur Sapna" to the Olga Tellis case. Via print and film, music, love, bulldozers, state propaganda and people's archives.

From Janta Colony to Janta Colony
Structure of a Forthcoming Film

1982
Structure of a Forthcoming Film
Regarding the Bombay Police Mutiny, August 15th 1982

City Housing in a Cultural Matrix

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona is now online . See more at At Ghar.with.CAMP

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona part 1

Part 1 of the housing histories project, Ghar Mein Shehar Hona: From Janata Colony to Janata Colony (imaginary to destroyed), is online.

Housing Histories Seminar

"Ghar Mein Shehar Hona: City Housing in a Cultural Matrix, 1951 to 2020". Three evenings of immersive histories on CAMP Rooftop.

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona Part 2

Part 2 of the housing histories project, From Footpath to Flat (via FSI) is online.

From Bandra North to Khar East (Virtual i.e. Real Landscape)

via RTI, TDR, Cyprus, Speculative Housing, Capital Flight, GBGB Andolan, Multicam Stings, Drone Leaks, Abu, Adarsh, Alyque, Naezy, Nayak, Rajjo, Tiger, .pdf and .xlsx.

Part 3 of our video-lectures on housing histories of Bombay-Mumbai 6:30 pm

Justice Lentin visits Kamraj Nagar, and What Happens Next

at CED (Centre for Education and Documentation)
3, Suleman Chambers, 4 Battery Street,
Behind Regal Cinema, Colaba, Mumbai.
Wednesday August 2, 2017
7 pm to 8:30 pm.

Including in person:
Journalist Olga Tellis
Lawyer Kranti L.C.
Poet and critic Ranjit Hoskote,
John D'Souza of the CED, among others.
In mid-monsoon exactly thirty-six years ago, Chief Minister A.R. Antulay initiated Operation Demolition, whose objective was to bulldoze and evict pavement dwellers in a corridor "from the Airport to the Taj Hotel".

Past Present Future

A never-ending project housed at CAMP around peoples histories of Bombay-Mumbai.

Karachi Seminar: Critical Perspectives on Art and Education

Keynote Presentation: From Janta Colony to Janta Colony (imaginary to destroyed) 1950 to 1982 Via print and film, music, love, bulldozers, state propaganda and peoples archives.

John Berger, A Seventh Time

Video and Stills with accompanying commentary
90 minutes
7:00 pm
*plus a newly-scanned copy of "A Seventh Man", Berger's photo-text book on migrant work.



Reading Listening Seeing, Bombay Tilts Down

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

CAMP Study Day

at
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.

An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai

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

TIME FLICKERS

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

first draft gathering

"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

Phantas.ma Season - II

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

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

A Terrible Beauty

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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