The Radia Tap(e)s Act I and II
Swearing-in whispers + Hum Logos
As part of Roundtable.
Co-Artistic Directors: Nancy Adajania, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Mami Kataoka, Sunjung Kim, Carol Yinghua Lu, and Alia Swastika
A screenplay in Courier 12pt melodramatic format, spanning the first three days of lobbying for cabinet spots, in the wake of the Indian general elections of 2009. The dialogue is entirely from phone taps made by the government. The screenplay slows them down and asks: what kinds of environments and scenes may lie behind them, and how are they connected?
Printed screenplay and IVR-based phone line, audience can type in scene numbers to hear dialogue in the original voices. Also performed as a reading.
Act II (Hum Logos) is a 45-minute audio film spliced from the Pad.ma collection of the Radia Tapes. It covers two months after the Indian general elections of 2009, with the new cabinet in power. The film asks: if debate around these tapes was about whether they are edited or not, or as Justice Mukhopadhay put it, "splice has been added", then what can further editing do?
A survey exhibition of the spatial, technical and cultural imaginations cultivated by CAMP.
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
Opening November 10, 6pm With a reading of the screenplayAct I: Swearing-in Whispers followed by a screening of Act-II: Hum Logos Corruption: Everybody Knows curated by Natasha Ginwala, continues through December 19, 2015 at E-flux, NY
The Radia Tap(e)s:
Act I Swearing-in Whispers
Act II Hum Logos
at Museum of Interruptions
Swearing-in Whispers: A screenplay based on the Radia Tap(e)sJoin us for a reading at New Museum Theater Thursday April 19 20127.pm as part of "The Ungovernables,"2012 New Museum Triennial
A project of listening, including with our ears, to some materials that seem to not touch us directly, but make up our "environment".
February 14, 2012 to April 22, 2012
The Ungovernables New Museum, New York
Act I: Swearing In Whispers, 2012
screenplay, phone lines.
Act II: Hum Logos, 2012
phone audio, projected subtitles and text.Based on the Radia Phone Tap(e)sThe lobbyist is a rhetorician-in-private, group persuader and network
player. When her government-tapped phone conversations leak (the Radia Tapes, 2009-) they
undergo multiple "phase shifts", becoming TV sound-bytes, scam
proofs, lengthy transcripts with short urls.
This exhibition proposes an after-form and before-form for two of
art's (and our own) usual objects. The first is a film that was shot over last
year on the English Channel that is now re-installed in Kolkata, making a certain claim for its universality.
The second is a "not-yet-film" treatment of the
Radia leaks as a screenplay, with an audio guide as its
soundtrack. Both these are moments lit up by separate alignments of, broadly, government,
technology, and opportunity...
You Must Change Your Life w/ Bombay Tilts Down
Shaina A presented a video performance, screenings, and was part of a panel on archives.
at Field Recordings 6
Screening, followed by Q and A with CAMP.
With filmmakers and scholars Helen Grace and Iqbal Barkat who also feature in the film.
Helen will introduce the film and Iqbal will lead and moderate the post-screening discussion with CAMP.
2pm to 5pm.
At the Biennale of Sydney.
Learning from 3 years of Inlaks Fine Art Awardees at CAMP.
With Anup, Vanshika, Mohit, Sheshadev and Biswajeet.
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Caillou Film Festival
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
SYDNEY OPERA
CCTV, 102 mins
Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, performative media, emancipated spect-actors, publics at the heart of practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Marking 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation.
Shaina A went to study Film and Media arts under the Inlaks scholarship in 1999.