Around 4 in the evening, the sun came out for a bit. Stuart, (who we had earlier visited at 2am on Friday night to witness the night shift) takes me for a walk around the MMU area. He maps all 36 'open street' cameras. Steve in the control keeps close track on us, cameras overhead rotate and tilt down. I film them instinctively, like animals stalking prey they watch, dark-eyed. Keeping Steve company in the control room are Chris and Anna and Elizabeth, the 4 o'clock visitors. As Stuart and me end our camera count, they spy 2 of their friends cutting across the park.
In March 2008 Shaina Anand collaborated with Manchester Metropolitan University and Arndale Shopping Centre to open working CCTV environments to a general audience. People normally 'enclosed' by these networks came into the control rooms to view, observe and monitor this condition, endemic in the UK.
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.
Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.
Irina presents ideas from an upcoming co-authored book on cyberfeminism, Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices, out this year.
Guna will speak about a recent exhibition series across South East Asia, the first of which is named Menggodam.
Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण
CAMP took part in the 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme events.
International Seminar on Documentary Film
“A collective / inarticulate harmony.”
A video performance tour of the work in three-acts with Shaina and Ashok.
Choreographies of the Everyday and Tokyo Art Week