City Housing in a Cultural Matrix

Sept. 19, 2019 - Jan. 19, 2020
Chicago Architecture Biennale

At Chicago Architecture Biennale

Internet assemblage on two monitors, sound. In three parts. + Online video and interface.
Software: Jan Gerber Commissioned by the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial

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

A collective of artists, filmmakers, software programmers, architects, activists and archivists, CAMP produces public art projects, films and electronic media that engage with cities globally. City Housing in a Cultural Matrix presents an interactive web-based film in three parts, that journeys through a history of housing and its context in Bombay/Mumbai.

The work narrates the social, cultural and political history of the “housing question” in Mumbai, by bringing together cinema, state-sponsored documentary, newspapers, policy reports and archives from social movements, among other source materials. These materials are assembled, via a hand-built web editor, into a new kind of "annotated film" that links to online archival sources. In the installation, some of these branching paths are seen in the second monitor. Drawing in form from the video lecture-performance style honed on CAMP's rooftop cinema and studio that takes its audience on dense archival journeys, the work examines a "poor man's colony" that was set up in the 1950s and destroyed twenty-five years later to make room for an atomic research facility in Bombay (Part-I: From Janata Colony to Janata Colony); a series of four organized responses to urban housing and slums triggered by a landmark court case, alongside a parallel cinema movement (Part-II: From Footpath To Flat); and contemporary, situated strategies in a very complex global environment (Part III: From Right to Information). The three parts are presented in this installation sequentially and will be released online in the same sequence during the course of the Biennial.

Ashok, Simpreet, and Shaina perform the housing histories trilogy live on 20 21 22 September during the opening week.

US premier - Housing Histories in a Cultural Matrix

Part 1. From Janta Colony to Janta Colony (imaginary to destroyed) via print and film, love and music, state propaganda and people's archives, five-year plans and Emergency.

Friday, 20 Sep, 2019 . 6:00 - 8:00pm

Part 2: From Footpath to Flat (via FSI) . through the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Transferable Development Rights, Transit Camps, Monsoons, Rocks, Courts, and four institutional histories.

Saturday, 21 Sep, 2019 . 6:00 - 8:00pm

Part 3 :From Right to Information (Virtual i.e. Real landscapes)
via TDR, Cyprus, Speculative Housing, Capital Flight, GBGB Andolan, Multicam Stings, Drone Leaks, .pdf and .xlsx.

Sunday, 22 Sep, 2019 . 3:00 - 5:00pm

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Gallery: Chicago Architecture Biennial

Related

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona Part 2
Oct. 12, 2020 - Jan. 1, 2021

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

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona part 1
July 1, 2020 - Jan. 1, 2021

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
Sept. 8, 2018 - Sept. 11, 2018
CAMP Rooftop

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

June 20, 2018 at KRVIA, Juhu

"From Janta Colony to Janta Colony" video lecture by CAMP, part one of a series, at KRVIA auditorium at 11 am.
June 27, 2018 at KRVIA, Juhu

"From Footpath to Flat (via FSI)" video lecture by CAMP, part two of a series, at KRVIA auditorium at 11 am.
From Bandra North to Khar East (Virtual i.e. Real Landscape)
Sept. 22, 2018
CAMP Roof

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

Nov. 14, 2018 at KRVIA

The third in our series of archival journeys through housing in Hamara Shehar. Part 3: From "Right" to "Information", KRVIA Auditorium, from 11 am.
Nov. 21, 2018 at KRVIA

The Fourth in our series of Archival Journeys, "Part 4: From Bandra North to Khar East". KRVIA Auditorium, from 11 am.
A Journey through Housing in Bombay, Part I
Feb. 9, 2017 - Feb. 11, 2017

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

10th February, Friday 4pm to 6pm
The Centre for Urban and Policy Governance and The School of Habitat Studies
Room A2, Ground Floor, Academic Building II, New Campus, TISS, Mumbai

11th February, Saturday 8p, to 10 pm
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Urban Design and Architecture
Max Mueller Bhavan, Library.

From Janta Colony to Janta Colony
Nov. 26, 2016
CAMP Roof

(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 Footpath to Flat (via FSI)
March 11, 2017
CAMP Roof

A Journey through Housing in Bombay/Mumbai, Part II

(1982 to 2004)

Through Transit Camps, the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Transferable Development Rights, Rocks, Marshes, Courts, and four institutional histories: Nivara Hakk, Nagari Nivara Parishad, SPARC and YUVA.

110 minutes of film and video with live commentary.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Saturday,
11th March, 2017
CAMP rooftop



Events

CAMP awarded Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2020
Oct. 13, 2020

Image: CAMP studio (handmade book scanner, optical scanner, four computers, NVR recorder, joystick, microphones, salad box, water, biscuits, coffee on the folding table. Bookshelves made of paper rolls, books, routers, awards, air conditioning and fan above. Inventory of electronics + museum of Jurassic technology below the tables, flooring replaced from wear. Some persons on a break, a person taking the picture.)

Sept. 18, 2020 CAMP@SRISHTI

Online seminar/"masterclass" with students of Srishti, Bangalore.
Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Ja Riya Hoon
March 8, 2020
CAMP Rooftop

7:00pm
Followed by a discussion with Anamika Haksar and many cast and crew members.

As part of Mother Courage and her Unruly, Loving Children

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
March 2, 2020 - March 7, 2020
Pamplona

Punto De Vista
International Documentary Festival of Navarra
Retrospective: Oceanic Feeling

Mother Truth and her Unruly, Loving Children
Feb. 29, 2020 - April 30, 2020
CAMP, Rooftop

SUSPENDED :( Hope to be back in the near future
This season of projections at CAMP begins on weekend evenings starting Saturday, February 29, or leap year day.

A Timeline and a Film, with Priya Sen
Feb. 29, 2020
CAMP Rooftop

7:00 pm ASSEMBLY, 30 min.
+
YEH FREEDOM LIFE, 70 min
Followed by a discussion with Priya

Feb. 2, 2020 ZOOM

Shaina Anand in conversation with Shaunak Sen Talk: India Art Fair 02 Feb, 5:00-5:45 PM

Drawing from a recent body of post-cinema assemblages and experiences from the Mumbai based collaborative studio CAMP, artists, filmmakers and researchers Shaina Anand and Shaunak Sen will discuss the before and after of Cinema and the Present.
Jan. 23, 2020 At Goldsmiths EFAP

CAMP did an afternoon seminar with the Goldsmiths curatorial knowledge PhD program and its "advanced practices" group. With Irit Rogoff, Adnan Madani, Ramon Amaro, Bridget Crone and students.
Screening and Discussion: A Passage through Passages
Jan. 22, 2020

Screening of a new 5-channel film by CAMP: 85 minutes

A Passage Through Passages is inspired by ethnographic and archival work in five field sites.

The screening is followed by a discussion, and a response from Susan Schuppli.

A PASSAGE THROUGH PASSAGES: On Roads in South Asia
Jan. 16, 2020 - July 10, 2020
SOAS Gallery, London

A Passage Through Passages is inspired by ethnographic and archival work in five field sites. The central feature of the exhibition is a multi-screen film work by CAMP.

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