The Thing is... 22
Nov. 10, 2022 - Dec. 9, 2022
panke gallery, berlin
Memorius is 5
We will remember it ... as a small spherical robot-camera, perched on a tripod made up of four floors of a building in north-western Bombay, on the old border between the British and Portuguese empires.
A generic 21c security camera with a non-generic purpose: to "film", rather than to "wait and watch". This object - we called it Memorius after the character in a Borges story that first appeared in a Buenos Aires newspaper in 1942 (who not only remembered everything, but also always knew the time) - is 5 years old today. In another 5, it will be 10. The Thing is 22, CAMP is 15...
The stream from Memorius is always at "local time", intercut by images from its young memory: The result is a kind of context-machine in which one image provides a context for another, by thickening it in time.
Viewable at the Panke Gallery, from 3 pm to 7pm Wednesday to Saturday until December 1, 2022.
Livestream 3pm on November 14, 2022, excerpt
Livestream 7pm on November 14, 2022, excerpt
Related
Sept. 8, 2023
M+, Hongkong.
A newly commissioned video performance in the "Grand Stair".
Reclaiming the strange spectatorship of viewers who entered the 19th-century Camera Obscura rooms to see live views of their surroundings in today's time of real-time hyper surveillance, CAMP invites us to experience a contemporary form of Live Cinema.
13m 14s looped, seven channel environment with music
2022
Filmed by CCTV camera from a single-point location in South-Central Mumbai.
Dec. 12, 2022 - April 10, 2023
Fort Kochi
Bombay Tilts Down
13m 14s looped, seven channel environment
2022
Events
Dec. 6, 2024
Widener Hall, Penn Museum, UPENN
Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.
Nov. 30, 2024 - April 24, 2025
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Nov. 14, 2024
Public Trust, Philadelphia
Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.
Nov. 7, 2024
12 Gates Art, Philadelphia
Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm
Sept. 19, 2024
Columbia University
We are proposing this term to think more broadly about extraction, waste, dependency, rear-guarding, mediatic conversions, in- and out-sourcing, and other aspects of chains of translation and steps of decision and production.
Aug. 27, 2024 - Dec. 20, 2024
Center For Experimental Ethnography, UPENN
with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)