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.
Dec. 12, 2022 - April 10, 2023
Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi
Bombay Tilts Down
13m 14s looped, seven channel environment
2022
13m 14s looped, seven channel environment with alternating soundtracks
2022
Filmed by CCTV camera from a single-point location in South-Central Mumbai.
Home for recurring live streaming projects.
Image: Eulji-ro, Seoul on a wintry day in 2021. Banner for "president -maker", probably a fortune teller.
March 16, 2019 - April 20, 2019
De Appel, Amsterdam
On three screens, a city-symphony filmed by automated CCTV cameras in Amsterdam pushing their optical and motor 'patrolling' capacities to an extreme.
All Events
Sept. 5, 2026 - Nov. 15, 2026
Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall
You Must Change Your Life w/ Bombay Tilts Down
Aug. 6, 2026 - Aug. 14, 2026
Locarno Film Festival
Shaina A presented a video performance, screenings, and was part of a panel on archives.
June 12, 2026 - June 14, 2026
Worm Rotterdam
at Field Recordings 6
Screening, followed by Q and A with CAMP.
May 16, 2026
White Bay Power Station, Sydney
With filmmakers and scholars Helen Grace and Iqbal Barkat who also feature in the film.
Helen will introduce the film and Iqbal will lead and moderate the post-screening discussion with CAMP.
2pm to 5pm.
At the Biennale of Sydney.
April 25, 2026
Arthshila, New Delhi
Learning from 3 years of Inlaks Fine Art Awardees at CAMP.
With Anup, Vanshika, Mohit, Sheshadev and Biswajeet.
March 26, 2026 - March 29, 2026
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Caillou Film Festival
March 22, 2026
Engine Room, SAM
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
March 14, 2026 - June 15, 2026
White Bay Power Station, Sydney
SYDNEY OPERA
CCTV, 102 mins
Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country
Feb. 13, 2026
Phantom Publics
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, performative media, emancipated spect-actors, publics at the heart of practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Shaina: 100 year project, performative media, emancipated spect-actors, publics at the heart of practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.