From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
at Viennale
South Asia Foreground
Labocine, June 2021 issue
On Display at Tate Modern, Media Networks, till November 2022
"Watch and Chill"
83 mins
2013
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and online.
Feature-length film by sea between western India, eastern Africa and the Persian gulf. First shown at a purpose built outdoor cinema on the creekside in Sharjah in 2013, where many of the sailors gather. Shown in Documenta 13 in an abridged form, as part of the installation The Boat Modes.
83 mins.
Original format(s): HDV, SDV, VHS-C, Cellphone videos (variable formats). Stereo audio and in-cameraphone music.
At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2008-2009, from where a large number of ships leave for Somali ports.
CAMP at Sheher o Funn, the inaugural biennale of the city of Lahore with From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf.
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
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.
Shaina joined artists Sheela Gowda, Rekha Rodwittya, Indrapramit Roy, Gigi Scaria and moderator Gayatri Sinha for a conversation inaugurating Intersections- an exhibition commemorating 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation at Arthshila, Delhi.
Marking 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation.
Shaina A went to study Film and Media arts under the Inlaks scholarship in 1999.
Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.