Four letter Film, 2004-2016

A conversation between two people, at the smallest possible bandwidth, that one could call "film", or narrative. Made of four alphanumeric characters, each having 14 segments. First made using Christmas lights in 2004. Remade in 2015.

LED structure, DMX controller, computer.

Acknowledgements:
Balaji Mohan, NILA, for drawings and fabrication at 24 Jorbagh, Delhi, 2015
Big Soda for fabrication at Tate Modern, London, 2017
Stijn Schiffeleers for fabrication at Argos, Brussels, 2019.

Exhibition History

As If - II, CAMP at 24 Jorbagh, Delhi. 2015
Could have Beens, CAMP, TATE Modern, London, 2017
Beginnings, CAMP, ARGOS, Brussels, 2019

Four-Letter Film
Four-Letter Film
CAMP: Beginnings

Beginnings is an exhibition tracing some of the conceptual and artistic origins of CAMP. At ARGOS, Brussels as part of new beginnings at ARGOS itself.

Camera Obscura

Tate Modern
29th March, 2017, 7:00 pm
South Tank

Could Have Beens

Tate Modern
Transformer Galleries and Tanks
Ten Days Six Nights
March 24 to April 2, 2017
CAMP presents a series of works including Windscreen, Capital Circus, One Agreement and Four-letter Film.
We also host Camera Obscura, an evening with video and talking, on the 29th of March.

As If - II Flight of the Black Boxes

24 JORBAGH, New Delhi
January 27 - February 24 2015

Born in experimentation and uncertainty, black boxes of machines and institutions surround us with seemingly smooth and impenetrable functions. But reintroduce the uncertainty, reopen the conflicts, and the box appears stable in neither form nor function.
Twelve works by CAMP look out through the interior worlds of cameras, memory devices, surveillance systems and more, developing feelings and strategies along with them.



SYDNEY OPERA


Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country

Ulhasnagar Matrix, 2024

LED profiles, custom electronics, handwritten text.

Bombay Tilts Down, 2022

13m 14s looped, seven channel environment with alternating soundtracks
2022

Filmed by CCTV camera from a single-point location in South-Central Mumbai.

In Cameras Res


De Appel, Amsterdam

On three screens, a city-symphony filmed by automated CCTV cameras in Amsterdam. The optical and motor capacities of these cameras are pushed to an extreme. Certain human subjects reappear near or far in the images, suggesting a form of reciprocal knowledge or intent, a secret pact between cameras and people.

A Photogenetic Line, 2019

A 100-foot long sequence of photo-cutouts, first shown at the Chennai Photo Biennale, March 2019

Matrix : Skulptur Projekt Münster, 2017


MATRIX

Of mother, womb, array, environment in which more specialised structures can grow.



Theater Münster
Neubrückenstraße 63
10 Jun - 1 Oct, 2017
Site-specific installation with Electric cable, switches, speakers, monitors, custom electronics.

Men-At-Work with Boxes in Stereo

20 mins, HD. 2 - channel installation
Cantonese, Mandarin
Filmed in Guangzhou at the Zhuhai International Container Terminal

The Country of the Sea

Single exposure solar cyanotype print on cotton fabric
CAMP with Shunya collective and Clark House Initiative 22 x 5 feet
An image of the sea as its own “country”, with frontier towns at its edges disorients an easy reading of this territory

Descendants, 2014

A three-channel installation from 8mm film
From the Clark House family archives, sequenced in a timeline as above.
Each screen is a different part of the same 8mm frame, usually a face.

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