The Road to Aesthetics

28th March 2009
3 to 6 pm.

A discussion with and presentations by Robert Sember, (Ultra-red), Florian Schneider (Kein.org), Graham Harwood (MediaShed), Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP)

Organised by Shaina Anand.


Gasworks

155 Vauxhall Street

London SE11 5RH

Recently, I appear to be surrounded by various people: activists, lawyers, software programmers, architects, academics, filmmakers, organisers and producers who have had a recent and intense engagement with the practices and institutions of art. They now make shifting claims on this profession, more often than not hesitating to call themselves artists, often leaving the decision on frameworks for their participation to their promoters and curators. We are now familiar with some of the effects and forms of this ambivalence. But here we are interested in looking at specific personal trajectories, to make the question of aesthetics more felt, and less of a paradigm with "the political".

-Shaina Anand

Gasworks invites you to an afternoon of artists presentations. Our participants develop and present a chronology (their own timelines) and journey through their own work and pasts, to reveal an arc of their engagement with, and expectations from, certain forms of art. But also, to speak about a passion and ability for aesthetic engagement framed as a personal enterprise, curiosity, and encounter.

Gallery: The Road to Aesthetics
Broken Cameras

featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار

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

To See is To Change

with Bombay Tilts Down (2022) and A Photogenic Line, (2019) as part of Photo 24, Melbourne.
In this pair of large-scale works, CAMP explore two sides of their practice; one that produces experimental film and video, often with unusual equipment and angles of participation, and another that creates and animates archives of moving images, documents and photography.

Closing Party! BOMBAY TILTS DOWN

Low-End Therapy
By Swadesi crew Kaali Duniya (Bamboy/Tushar Adhav) with guest MC's Kranti Naari, Pratika, MC Mawali, Khabardar Revolt.
BassBrahma and RaakShas Sound
Equality on the dance floor.

Bombay Tilts Down in Mumbai!

7-channel environment. 13 mins, on loop with two alternating soundtracks

A vertical landscape movie in facets. Filmed remotely by one CCTV camera from a single-point location atop a 35-floor building on E. Moses Road during the pandemic.

READING LISTENING SEEING Bombay Tilts Down

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
12 January 7 pm, ft. Bamboy
13 January 6 pm
14 January 7:30 pm
20 January 7 pm

Concave Room

CheMoulding Part II - FUTURING
60 years of Chemould Gallery
+ CAMP invites:
Mohit Shelare, Curve in the Desire.
++
himanshu S and aqui T, Parallel Universe.

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