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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March 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026
SYDNEY OPERA
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Feb. 13, 2026
Phantom Publics
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
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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.
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CAMP are recipients of Asia Society’s 2026 Asia Arts Pathbreaker Award
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Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.
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CAMP Studio
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