at Skulptur Projekt
June 10, 2017 - Oct. 1, 2017
Münster
When Neubrückenstrasse was being rebuilt after the war, its buildings and three churches surrounding the site of the theatre were being built “historically”. A financial delay stalled the rebuilding of the theater in similar neo-classical style, and a protest by architects and planners led to a counter-proposal. Within six short weeks, the protestors collective of Deilmann, Rave, VonHausen and Ruhnau had entered and won the competition. The result was "epochal; a thunderclap of bewildering pink and blue mosaic tiles and glass, wrapped around a fragment of ruin". In other words, it was such a special event in the city that it seemed unlikely to take place again.
The question is, how does modernism survive the continued assault of its own inventions? What is its plan for changing with time, or its continuity? Does it still want to grow to cover the entire Earth, or is that universality now abandoned? What is its sense of space or its limits, as it overlapped with the network era?
To test these questions, the artists CAMP have made a historical-materialist proposal for this location. At the core of Matrix is a "black sky" of wire, a speculative sculpture set in a continuous past, a dark sister of the "sky of lamps" inside the theater, and whose function is open-ended.
Sound of church sequence: Sneha Khanwalkar
Window person: Anna Viehoff
Matrix
Events
March 22, 2025
"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)
Organised by Stuart Comer and Rattanamol Singh Johal.
Feb. 20, 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.
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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.
Jan. 24, 2025
Contemporary Studies of Indian Cinema
Shaina A gave a talk at the film studies conference at EFLU, Hyderabad titled Film After Video, Notes from CAMP.
Jan. 8, 2025
CAMP Rooftop
by Johan Grimonprez
150 mins| 2024|
7:00 pm
A story about the encounter of American Jazz and African decolonisation, via the UN and the CIA, with a lot of world around it.
Jan. 4, 2025
CAMP Rooftop
Join us for a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.
We begin the year with
GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes
2024, 120 mins.
7:00 pm.
in memorium, Tejas Pande.
Jan. 1, 2025 - March 1, 2025
Uniondocs.org
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Streaming on Union Docs.