Shelter, Visibility, Love

The ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum) in Alexandria/ Iskandariya, Egypt hosted a 4-day workshop conducted by Ashok and Shaina. Participants in "Shelter, Visibility, Love" produced a variety of material that was placed in two temporary exhibitions.

Shelter, Visibility, Love.
(on the creation of insulations and openings)
In the context of the festival "Cleotronica"

The promise of the "electronic space of flows" is of cutting across the enclosures of the physical world. It carries the dreams and anxieties of new community formations, undiscovered and "partial" forms of intimacy, and new forms of social encounter.

At the same time, and increasingly, we find these technologies enveloped in existing relations, customs, habits, boundaries of ownership, morality or law. It is also clear that acts of "communication" alone may not be enough to dissolve deeper boundaries. And then, which boundaries are worth dissolving? Much of our ongoing work enters into this conceptual space.

A primary project of contemporary design is to keep things and people at a certain precise distance, so that the relationship may sit within a safe, acceptable range on the slider between the "personal" and the "public". In this way the role of contemporary materials, interfaces and design strategies could be seen primarily as insulation, sheltering us from the effects of unwanted attentions. In many cases this shelter is necessary, since utter exposure, total publication, can be brutal. But what other ways can we imagine, to traverse these terms?

The workshop is about building upon such ideas in terms of the practices of the artists and designers involved. How do they think about the question of how to keep the room cool(or warm), while keeping the doors and windows open, to encounters with the outside.

Shelter, Visibility, Love
Rough Guide to the Media Arts

Salzburg Summer Academy
This course, part history, part practical, will explore big questions raised by media art – a term usually used to describe software art or electronic practices. However, we expand this definition to all distributive media: radio, television, CCTV, electricity, the Internet and other "networks"



first draft gathering

"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.

Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP

Organised by Stuart Comer and Rattanamol Singh Johal.

Phantas.ma Season - II

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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The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty

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.

Youth (Spring)

by Wang Bing
232 mins | 2023
6:30 pm*

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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.

Around the World Again

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.

Geographies of Belonging

Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Streaming on Union Docs.

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