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
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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 alternating soundtracks
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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
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Events
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
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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.
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Moma)
A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
May 19, 2025
Light Industry, NY
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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.
April 26, 2025
CAMP Rooftop
Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.
April 25, 2025
Afterwaste
A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
March 22, 2025
CAMP studio
"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.
Feb. 20, 2025 - July 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
Feb. 17, 2025 - July 20, 2025
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!
Feb. 2, 2025
CAMP Rooftop
Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.
Jan. 25, 2025
CAMP Studio
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.