A project of listening, including with our ears, to some materials that seem to not touch us directly, but make up our "environment".

April 19, 2012 - April 20, 2012

Swearing-in Whispers: A screenplay based on the Radia Tap(e)s

Join us for a reading at
New Museum Theater
Thursday April 19 2012
7.pm
as part of "The Ungovernables,"2012 New Museum Triennial

Nov. 23, 2014 - Nov. 28, 2014

The Radia Tap(e)s:
Act I Swearing-in Whispers
Act II Hum Logos
at Museum of Interruptions

Nov. 10, 2015 - Nov. 11, 2015

Opening November 10, 6pm
With a reading of the screenplay
Act I: Swearing-in Whispers followed by a screening of
Act-II: Hum Logos

Corruption: Everybody Knows curated by Natasha Ginwala, continues through December 19, 2015 at E-flux, NY

Sept. 23, 2011 - Dec. 8, 2011

Experimenter, Kolkata
September 23, 2011 - December 8, 2011

This exhibition proposes an after-form and before-form for two of art's (and our own) usual objects. The first is a film that was shot over last year on the English Channel that is now re-installed in Kolkata, making a certain claim for its universality. The second is a "not-yet-film" treatment of the Radia leaks as a screenplay, with an audio guide as its soundtrack. Both these are moments lit up by separate alignments of, broadly, government, technology, and opportunity...

Jan. 29, 2013 - March 24, 2013

CAMP's exhibition at Experimenter, Kolkata

June 7, 2012 - Sept. 15, 2012

Two exhibitions:

The Boat Modes in a house in the Karlsaue Park
and with Pad.ma on Afghan Films, in the ex-elisabeth hospital/ex-chinese restaurant.

Sept. 7, 2013 - Sept. 8, 2013

March 29, 2015 - May 31, 2015

A ride through the industrial district around Roshanara road, Delhi.
We come across various sites and histories of the "industrial age" in the city, and its related narratives of automation, pollution, labour and closure.
The tour is on cycle-rickshaws, with ricksha-wallas as narrators and guides.

June 24, 2019 CAMP and Nikhil Anand host a discussion on a wet/ watery landscape of Mumbai as research method, with participants from Marine Life of Mumbai, IIT Bombay, SEA, TISS and UPENN

Act II (Hum Logos) is a 45-minute audio film spliced from the Pad.ma collection of the Radia Tapes. It covers two months after the Indian general elections of 2009, with the new cabinet in power. The film asks: if debate around these tapes was about whether they are edited or not, or as Justice Mukhopadhay put it, "splice has been added", then what can further editing do?

13m 14s looped, seven channel environment with music
2022
Filmed by CCTV camera from a single-point location in South-Central Mumbai.

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

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

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, Cellphone videos (variable). Stereo audio and in-cameraphone music.

4 channel HDV, 8 minutes