20 mins, HD. 2 - channel installation
Cantonese, Mandarin
Filmed in Guangzhou at the Zhuhai International Container Terminal
The crane operator and longshoreman seem to have disappeared.
In this "forgotten space" of the ocean (that channels 90% of global trade), their absence, along with the grime and buzz of the port city has been mourned, there have been requiems. But they exist, countless of them, their hand-eye and body workings, rendered tiny and near-invisible against the backdrop of the lego-land image of the container port.
CAMP's work here, filmed on location at the Zhuhai International Container Terminal, Gaolan on the Pearl River Delta offers "a day in the life of" look at what can be seen; of both the systems-view and workers-view of that seemingly automated movement of boxes.
With the participation of Jingbin Liu, Zhiyu Fang, Jiefeng Zhao, Wuyi Lin, Zedong Wang, Guoming Liang and others. Many thanks to Xiaofei Mo and Jianmin Chen.
A survey exhibition of the spatial, technical and cultural imaginations cultivated by CAMP.
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
Men-at-Work with Boxes in Stereo
20 mins, HD. 2 - channel installation
Cantonese, Mandarin
Filmed in Guangzhou at the Zhuhai International Container Terminal
Queens Museum, NY
Mar 8 2015m - Jun 28 2015
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (83 mins)
and Stuffing and Destuffing (4 channel looped video 9 mins)
A newly commissioned video performance in the "Grand Stair".
Reclaiming the strange spectatorship of viewers who entered the 19th-century Camera Obscura rooms to see live views of their surroundings in today's time of real-time hyper surveillance, CAMP invites us to experience a contemporary form of Live Cinema.
A journey with CAMP’s five-year Wharfage project and related maritime explorations.
CAMP presents
Destuffing Matrix
2012
4 x 3 channel HDV, 8 minutes.
2nd floor, Pepper House, Fort Kochi
12/12/12 to 13/03/13Show extended till 17/03/13
4 channel HDV, 8 minutes
A film that compiles observations made by volunteer guards watching the English Channel, over one year. Filmed by small cameras connected to the eyepiece of telescopes.
Produced with the National Coastwatch Institution, Folkestone, Kent, UK.
60 minutes, 5.1 surround sound.
At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2008-2009, from where a large number of ships leave for Somali ports.
Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country
LED profiles, custom electronics, handwritten text.
13m 14s looped, seven channel environment with alternating soundtracks
2022
Filmed by CCTV camera from a single-point location in South-Central Mumbai.
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 100-foot long sequence of photo-cutouts, first shown at the Chennai Photo Biennale, March 2019
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.
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
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.
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.