Camera Obscura

March 29, 2017 - March 30, 2017

Tate Modern

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

Using a live presentational format honed through years of public presentations in their rooftop cinema in Mumbai, CAMP takes us into the dark rooms and black boxes of our times.


Camera Obscura is an assemblage drawn from the history of proto-photographic and photographic surveillance – from the eponymous darkened room which people entered to see an image of the outside world, to CCTV control rooms and hidden cameras the size of a spectacle screw – as well as from their own cinematic works and those of fellow artists. Together, they unsettle the neutrality of the documentary image and provoke us with ways of seeing, being seen and being heard.

Presented in parallel with CAMP’s Could Have Beens installation in the Transformer Galleries and East Tank, this live presentation provides fascinating insight into the group’s politically-engaged working methods. Could Have Beens will be on view throughout the evening alongside the work of Fred Moten & Wu Tsang, Isabel Lewis and Fujiko Nakaya, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani.  


Gallery: Camera Obscura

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From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Nov. 1, 2019 - Nov. 30, 2021
London

On Display at Tate Modern, Media Networks, till November 2021

Could Have Beens
March 23, 2017 - April 3, 2017

Tate Modern
Transformer Galleries and Tanks
Ten Days Six Nights
March 24 to April 2, 2017

CAMP presents a series of works including Windscreen, Capital Circus, One Agreement and Four-letter Film.

We also host Camera Obscura, an evening with video and talking, on the 29th of March.

CCTV Social

In March 2008 Shaina Anand collaborated with Manchester Metropolitan University and Arndale Shopping Centre to open working CCTV environments to a general audience. People normally 'enclosed' by these networks came into the control rooms to view, observe and monitor this condition, endemic in the UK.

CCTV Landscape from Moulali-Entally
Jan. 27, 2018 - March 1, 2018
Gem Cinema

A single camera mounted on the roof of Gem Cinema brings us multifarious textures, factoids and fabulations



Events

CAMP awarded Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2020
Oct. 13, 2020

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.)

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona Part 2
Oct. 12, 2020 - Jan. 1, 2021

Part 2 of the housing histories project, From Footpath to Flat (via FSI) is online.

Sept. 18, 2020 CAMP@SRISHTI

Online seminar/"masterclass" with students of Srishti, Bangalore.
Ghar Mein Shehar Hona part 1
July 1, 2020 - Jan. 1, 2021

Part 1 of the housing histories project, Ghar Mein Shehar Hona: From Janata Colony to Janata Colony (imaginary to destroyed), is online.

Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Ja Riya Hoon
March 8, 2020
CAMP Rooftop

7:00pm
Followed by a discussion with Anamika Haksar and many cast and crew members.

As part of Mother Courage and her Unruly, Loving Children

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
March 2, 2020 - March 7, 2020
Pamplona

Punto De Vista
International Documentary Festival of Navarra
Retrospective: Oceanic Feeling

Mother Truth and her Unruly, Loving Children
Feb. 29, 2020 - April 30, 2020
CAMP, Rooftop

SUSPENDED :( Hope to be back in the near future
This season of projections at CAMP begins on weekend evenings starting Saturday, February 29, or leap year day.

A Timeline and a Film, with Priya Sen
Feb. 29, 2020
CAMP Rooftop

7:00 pm ASSEMBLY, 30 min.
+
YEH FREEDOM LIFE, 70 min
Followed by a discussion with Priya

Feb. 2, 2020 ZOOM

Shaina Anand in conversation with Shaunak Sen Talk: India Art Fair 02 Feb, 5:00-5:45 PM

Drawing from a recent body of post-cinema assemblages and experiences from the Mumbai based collaborative studio CAMP, artists, filmmakers and researchers Shaina Anand and Shaunak Sen will discuss the before and after of Cinema and the Present.
Jan. 23, 2020 At Goldsmiths EFAP

CAMP did an afternoon seminar with the Goldsmiths curatorial knowledge PhD program and its "advanced practices" group. With Irit Rogoff, Adnan Madani, Ramon Amaro, Bridget Crone and students.
All Events