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.
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
Metabolic Container
Starting from 400 boxes of goods, part of a weekly, diasporic "trade" (one-way) between Batam in Indonesia, and Singapore. In which the container and its boxes are not just a carrier, but a medium.
featuring CCTV Social and Pad.ma playlists.