Distributing the Unsensable (in experiments with images)

by CAMP
at
The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: 1913-2013 and beyond
Disciplines, Histories, Technologies, Futures

January 9th, 2014
at Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi.

With Screenings of
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
9th and 11th January 7:00 pm


We are surrounded by landscapes that we cannot directly sense: Coal reserves, electrical grids, climate, financial systems, art markets. The chains linking these to individual perception or sense organs are long and twisted. We can think of images as attempts to short-circuit this situation. Images light up every available surface, fighting an indirect, metaphorical battle against the disappearance of actual sites of financialisation, valorisation, urbanisation, network intensification, and so on. These images rearrange what can be seen, felt or alluded to, and thus in the language of Jacques Rancière, produce an overlap between aesthetics and politics.

In this talk we develop another side of this overlap, which motivates our own recent work, and is about the non-sensable aspects of images, or certain aspects of aesthetic process. That is, things that are not perceptible yet, but there is an experimentation that may burst into perceptibility or form at any time. This means the procedures, backends, tweaking of technological or organisational contexts, and other ways in which moving images are prepared for, thought of, and then made, cast or thrown. Starting with seven different clips of near-darkness in the online video archive Pad.ma, we describe the (also accidental, tentative) entry of cameras and intentions into different kinds of spaces, or worlds. The way or manner of entering, in relation to and transforming what is already there, is the key shift or interruption here. We give examples of our activities "behind the image" and anticipation of it, that try to catch in the plane and rhythm of image-making processes, some of what has receded from the immediate senses.  


Gallery: Distributing the Unsensable (in experiments with images)
Fwd: Re: Archive

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.



Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)

We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)

From the Roof to the Sky

The Neighbour before the House
+
A Stone's Throw

August 1 – 7:30 pm
August 7 – 7:30 pm
August 12 – 7:30 pm
August 31 – 7:30 pm
with filmmaker q&a

Inlaks Fine Art Awardees 2024

CROWDED HOUSE
machines, skins, traps and five-year plans

CAMP, Urvar and Studio ON invite you to a one-day Open House of artworks and interactions with the 2024 Inlaks Fine Art Awardees, who have been in residence in Borivali for the past 4 weeks.

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

as part of
Heavy Metal Containers

July 9, 10 pm
July 13, 7:30 pm
July, 17 pm
July 29, 7:30 pm

Into the Midst Workshop

Months long workshop initiated by a group of artists in and around Delhi. To analyse contemporary mediation and media theory as a general phenomenon, to discuss emerging practice and theory, and to produce new work.
Part 1 @Sarai, April 20-22, 2024

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

Captial Circus (2009)

in
The Unfaithful Octopus
at
MAIIAM Contemporary

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.

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