Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lutgert (0x2620.org) and Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP), co-founders of the Pad.ma video archive, initiate "Problems of Translation" a public discussion on the nature of translations between art and art's archive, technology and art history, software and painting, and digital and analog artifacts, at the
Problems of Translation
A public discussion with Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert (both 0x2620, Berlin) and Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP, Bombay).
Problems of translation occur not only between written or spoken languages (such as Cantonese or English), but also are a much more common phenomenon.
Translation
is a challenge for all "gaps between disciplines" (such as between art
and technology). But a closer look at the practices of programmers and
painters for example, might reveal that principles and techniques they
apply in their respective fields, have much more in common than it is
usually assumed. Problems of translation may not lie where most
expected.
In the art archive, the verb "archiving" already implies many kinds
of translation, of the qualities and potentials of artworks and related
materials. In digital art archives, such translation is
present in many everyday acts of scanning, tagging and uploading. The
transformation of analog art works into digital items not only changes
their storage medium and handling qualities, but also makes them enter
completely new relations, exchanges and equations. Digital materials
tend to multiply and to leak, to both create great wealth and provide
great distraction. "Digital labour" or changed work habits is another
consequence of this, which in turn changes how we think about the
production and growth of such archives.
To realise the digital archive's full potential means to take the
idea of translation quite seriously, as a basic unit for all kinds of
distributive and transformative forces, indirect effects, and creative
misunderstandings.
The central event of a month-long gathering organised around the 10th anniversary of Pad.ma the footage archive, and the 5th anniversary of Indiancine.ma.
featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار
Shaina A speaks about CAMPs past present future project and https://indiancina.me and https://phantas.ma at CSMVS in conjuction with A Cinematic Imagination: Josef Wirsching & the Bombay Talkies’.
Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
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.
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.
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.
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
CAMP participated in the conference: Modulating Realities at Sarai, Delhi.
What Can Happen to Paradigms of Control. A keynote lecture by Forensic Architecture Guest Professors Shaina A & Ashok S. At Goldsmiths, University of London.
CheMoulding Part II - FUTURING
60 years of Chemould Gallery
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CAMP invites:
Mohit Shelare, Curve in the Desire.
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himanshu S and aqui T, Parallel Universe.