is an ongoing public-access media archival project, centered around video as a medium of documentation, collection, argumentation and exchange. Its objective is to consolidate, densely annotate, and make available online several scattered collections of video material, to begin with in Mumbai and Bangalore. Pad.ma is a collaboration between oil21.org, CAMP, Majlis, Point of View, the Alternative Law Forum, and other future contributors.
Image: CAMP studio (handmade book scanner, optical scanner, four computers, NVR recorder, joystick, microphones, salad box, water, biscuits, coffee on the folding table. Bookshelves made of paper rolls, books, routers, awards, air conditioning and fan above. Inventory of electronics + museum of Jurassic technology below the tables, flooring replaced from wear. Some persons on a break, a person taking the picture.) (Reverse angle image is here)
Nam June Paik Art Center Prize
An exhibition of the "contextually rich, environment-shifting media works of CAMP".
The video art programme of the 2021 Asian Art Biennial
Presented by Pad.ma
Pad.ma has a sister project.
Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film.
A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
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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.
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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.
Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.
A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.
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!
Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.
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.