Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP
Feb. 20, 2025 - July 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
Organised by Stuart Comer and Rattanamol Singh Johal.
How do we make sense, or poetry, out of the system of images we face today? This is one of the questions taken up by CAMP, that draws on widely available technologies, including CCTV and cell phone cameras as well as the internet, “to think and to build what is possible, what is equitable, and what is interesting, for the future.”
CAMP's projects rethink our relationship with the technologies that constantly capture us. Founded in 2007 by Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran and Sanjay Bhangar, this shapeshifting group runs a rooftop cinema, cohosts online video archives, and uses moving images, radio broadcasts, lecture performances, and interventions in public spaces to examine the political and socioeconomic conditions of contemporary life.
This exhibition includes three works that trace the arc of CAMP’s interests over nearly two decades. Each redefines relationships between video’s producers, distributors, and spectators: a participatory television network in a dense New Delhi neighbourhood; a film made from cell phone footage and music in collaboration with sailors navigating trade routes across the Indian Ocean; and a dramatic, multi-channel video panorama of Mumbai filmed by pushing a single surveillance camera to its limits. CAMP’s practice reorients communication devices, transport infrastructures, surveillance equipment, and digital archives to transform entrenched systems into new opportunities for hope, longing, desire, and collective action.
Organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, and Rattanamol Singh Johal, guest curator and former Assistant Director of the International Program, with Lilia Rocio Taboada, Curatorial Associate, Department of Media and Performance.
