An Evening with CAMP

This artist talk accompanies Signals: How Video Transformed the World.
Organised by Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo and Rattanamol SIngh Johal.

The evening was about a form of video that is all around us, and a series of positions around it. That present some alternatives to what a friend of ours recently called the: "the loneliness of being alone with Big Brother". That means, just you and the Panopticon. You and the Society of Control. You and Surveillance Capitalism.

So, the idea is to prevent some of these analytical and literary concepts of surveillance and control from becoming too dominant in our heads and bodies -
To prevent them from becoming… self-fulfilling prophecies.
Let's begin with some alternatives to Big Brother...

Photos: Eana Kim

An Evening with CAMP at MoMA
What the Cameras Saw and Remembered

Two films by CAMP

Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

CAMP Study Day

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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.

ZOOM

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.

Bombay Tilts Down, 2022

13m 14s looped, seven channel environment with alternating soundtracks
2022

Filmed by CCTV camera from a single-point location in South-Central Mumbai.

CAMP After Media Promises

Nam June Paik Art Center Prize
An exhibition of the "contextually rich, environment-shifting media works of CAMP".

CAMP: Beginnings

Beginnings is an exhibition tracing some of the conceptual and artistic origins of CAMP. At ARGOS, Brussels as part of new beginnings at ARGOS itself.

CCTV TV: An evening with CAMP

In advance of CAMP's solo at De Appel and in collaboration with LIMA - a screening of two of the studio’s earlier acclaimed projects that examine surveillance, society, and cinematic apparatus.

In Cameras Res, 2019


De Appel, Amsterdam

On three screens, a city-symphony filmed by automated CCTV cameras in Amsterdam. The optical and motor capacities of these cameras are pushed to an extreme. Certain human subjects reappear near or far in the images, suggesting a form of reciprocal knowledge or intent, a secret pact between cameras and people.

CCTV Landscape from Lower Parel

A 200-year neighbourhood story told through a single camera mounted on a cinema hall, 90 minutes.
Opening event
The New Medium II: Footage Films
Friday 13th Oct 2017
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
IMAX at PVR Phoenix
also
Monday 16th Oct 2017
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
PVR Phoenix 6

Camera Obscura

Tate Modern
29th March, 2017, 7:00 pm
South Tank



Sydney Biennale 2026

Coming soon…

Night Sweats, and Menggodam

Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.

Irina presents ideas from an upcoming co-authored book on cyberfeminism, Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices, out this year.

Guna will speak about a recent exhibition series across South East Asia, the first of which is named Menggodam.

Commemorating a Revolution yet to come,

Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण

Gwangju Biennale 2026

CAMP took part in the 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme events.

screenings and masterclass with CAMP

Doc’s Kingdom

International Seminar on Documentary Film
“A collective / inarticulate harmony.”

Reading Listening Seeing - Bombay Tilts Down

A video performance tour of the work in three-acts with Shaina and Ashok.
Choreographies of the Everyday and Tokyo Art Week

Singapore Biennale

Metabolic Container

Starting from 400 boxes of goods, part of a weekly, diasporic "trade" (one-way) between Batam in Indonesia, and Singapore. In which the container and its boxes are not just a carrier, but a medium.

Structural Film After Globalisation

featuring CCTV Social and Pad.ma playlists.

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