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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Events
June 11, 2023
CAMP, Chuim Village, Mumbai
A projection of film clips known and unknown, footage seen and unseen, documents and photographs, and voices of filmmakers present and past.
On the occasion of the Bombay launch of
John Ghatak Tarkovsky : Citizen, Filmmakers, Hackers
by Ashish Rajadhyaksha.
7:00 pm, Sunday June 11
June 10, 2023
CAMP, Chuim Village, Mumbai
MOVE STAY OR DISAPPEAR
Saturday, June 10th 2023, 6pm onwards.
An outcome of a 6-week residency at CAMP in Chuim village Khar, a continuing dialogue with each other and with the studio.
June 4, 2023
CAMP, Mumbai
Midnight's Third Child
Readings, Screenings and Discussions
with Naeem Mohaiemen
May 15, 2023 - May 16, 2023
MoMA, NYC
This artist talk accompanies Modern
Mondays and Signals: How
Video Transformed the World.
Organised by Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo and Rattanamol SIngh Johal.
April 20, 2023 - June 4, 2023
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
featuring The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" and The Country of the Sea
April 18, 2023
Adieu Chandita Mukherjee
Remembering Chandita, the origins of COMET and Bharat Ki Chaap https://phantas.ma/chanditam-bkc Her annotated essay, 2014
Feb. 5, 2023
Video theory and NJP.ma
Book and Web launch of a video art theory project by Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben. Includes a presentation of their multi-format essay on njp.ma.
Nov. 12, 2022
View from the Boats
Talk by Shaina A in conversation with Gahee Park at the Seoul Museum of Modern Art, about the Wharfage publication and From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf .
Nov. 4, 2022
Experimenter Curators Hub
Ashok S participates in Experimenter Curators Hub 2022.
Oct. 28, 2022 - March 12, 2023
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Featuring From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Organised by Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and Sharjah Art Foundation, curated by Omar Kholeif.