Wharfage 2022 edition
As part of the CAMP exhibition "A Passage Through Passages" at Sharjah,
the 2009 book "Wharfage" was reprinted, with a new foreword.
You can download the book here (pdf).
As part of the CAMP exhibition "A Passage Through Passages" at Sharjah,
the 2009 book "Wharfage" was reprinted, with a new foreword.
You can download the book here (pdf).
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
&
Wharfage
A non-imperial view from the 'Other Boat', counter to images of the 'distressed seas'. With a presentation and screening of From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf at Transmediale 2018.
CAMP at Transmediale 2018, Berlin with reprinted Wharfage, The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" Exhibition and The Country of the Sea cyanotype.
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27 and 28 March 2015
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and CAMP invite you to a day-long seminar, View from the Boat: a diverse set of responses and discussions provoked by the geography and "approach" of CAMP's ongoing exhibition at the museum, As If - III Country of the Sea.
The seminar will be preceded by an artists’ introduction to the exhibition, starting at 6:00 pm on the 27th evening.
It will commence again on the 28th at 10:30 am and continue till 5:30 pm.
Everyone is welcome to join an after-hours walk through of the exhibition on the 27th of March, starting at 6:00 pm.
A journey with CAMP’s five-year Wharfage project and related maritime explorations.
Mapping Asia
At first, a project on the creek in Sharjah in 2008-2009, from where a large number of ships leave for Somali ports.
Metabolic Container
Starting from 350 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.
Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.
Penn Anthropology Colloquium
12pm, Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
"A story of decisions, forms, cause and effect in a multi-year sequence of encounters, artworks and friendships of CAMP, across parts of the Indian Ocean, starting with a fleet of ships passing everyday through what was termed “Somali piracy”.
CAMP
is involved in a 2-year "print-from-web"
project, linked to its own investigations of the infrastructures of commerce and
pleasure in this part of London. As part of the first "block study", we looked at several buildings and their ownership and use histories, and produced a series of tablemats.
The web-based part of the project resides at http://edgwareroad.org. ( now at Print.with.camp ) This website collects materials from various such "studies", conducted by us and
others, which then are collaboratively edited and published in a number of physical forms: volumes, pamphlets and placemats.
This is an ongoing project, as part of the Serpentine Gallery's Public
Program.
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.
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-C, Cellphone videos (variable formats). Stereo audio and in-cameraphone music.