Swearing-In-Whispers, 2011

A screenplay in Courier 12pt melodramatic format, spanning the first three days of lobbying for cabinet spots, in the wake of the Indian general elections of 2009. The dialogue is entirely from phone taps made by the government. The screenplay slows them down and asks: what kinds of environments and scenes may lie behind them, and how are they connected?

Printed screenplay and IVR-based phone line, audience can type in scene numbers to hear dialogue in the original voices. Also performed as a reading.

Exhibition History

2022
Passasages Through Passages (solo) Sharjah

2015
Corruption, Everybody Knows
, E-flux, New York City

2014
Nirankusha, Fearless Speak, Bangalore

2013
Citizen-Artist: Forms of Address, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

2012
New Museum Triennial: Ungovernables, New York City
Gwangju Biennale 9
The Skoda Prize Show, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

2011
Experimenter, Kolkata

CAMP RADIA
At e-flux NYC

Opening November 10, 6pm With a reading of the screenplayAct 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

As if - tV

Clark House Initiative, Mumbai
March 29 to May 30 2015
CAMP and Pad.ma present a series of works on, with and through the medium of TV.

Nirankusha: Fearless, Speak

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

Closely Guarded Phonecalls

Hum Logos (45 mins) at FD ZONE
RR Theatre
10th Floor
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Saturday, 7th September, 2013
4:00 pm

at the NGMA/ Skoda Prize exhibition

Two Stages of Invention
CAMP's exhibition at Experimenter, Kolkata
is now showing at the
National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi
upto March 5, 2013Show Extended till March 23, 2013

9th Gwangju Biennale

The Radia Tap(e)s Act I and II
Swearing-in whispers + Hum Logos
As part of Roundtable.
Co-Artistic Directors: Nancy Adajania, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Mami Kataoka, Sunjung Kim, Carol Yinghua Lu, and Alia Swastika

Swearing-in Whispers reading

Swearing-in Whispers: A screenplay based on the Radia Tap(e)sJoin us for a reading at New Museum Theater Thursday April 19 20127.pm as part of "The Ungovernables,"2012 New Museum Triennial

Electronic Ear Cleaning

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

2012 New Museum Triennial

February 14, 2012 to April 22, 2012
The Ungovernables New Museum, New York
Act I: Swearing In Whispers, 2012
screenplay, phone lines.
Act II: Hum Logos, 2012
phone audio, projected subtitles and text.Based on the Radia Phone Tap(e)sThe lobbyist is a rhetorician-in-private, group persuader and network
player. When her government-tapped phone conversations leak (the Radia Tapes, 2009-) they
undergo multiple "phase shifts", becoming TV sound-bytes, scam
proofs, lengthy transcripts with short urls.

CAMP: Two Stages of Invention

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...

Hum Logos

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?



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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