[Reader-list] Fwd: 27 January @ 24 Jorbagh, 6 pm | CAMP | As If II | Flight of the Black Boxes

[Shaina A]

Dear all,


CAMP's Show,
*As If - II: Flight of the Black Boxes *is on view at 24 Jor Bagh, Lodhi
Road, New Delhi till 24 February 2015.
Exhibition timings: 12 noon – 8 pm daily
It presents a path through several short and long format works by CAMP
created between 2002 and 2013. Please do visit, and take your time:)


*Flight of the Black Boxes,* the second in a series of four shows titled *As
If* by CAMP.

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 unstable interior worlds of cameras, memory devices, surveillance
systems, electricity and more, developing feelings and strategies alongside
them.

Downstairs, in a sculptural work, video is seen as a physical force
disturbing and seducing subjects. Next to this, a collaboration unfolds in
a large mall, in which security people, members of the public and 208
cameras are participants. Another work jujitsus television sets, CCTV and
neighbours to reconfigure space, speech and hierarchy in a Delhi
neighbourhood. Above it people enter security rooms to dialogue with
operators. Elsewhere, a single camera films from the parapets of
Palestinian homes, looking over neighbourhoods that are being broken up
into countries. Forces gather in Bombay and Delhi, in Ljubljana and
Rostock. A room camera obscura interrupts the black box of video art with
live bodies and trees. The house as a whole tells a story in a "Four-Letter
Film".

*As If  (I - IV)*

*As If*  is the title of a series of exhibitions by CAMP in early 2015.
Retrospective in spirit, these shows gather for the first time in solo
exhibition form, many of the artworks and ideas crafted by CAMP as a group
since 2007, and by its constituent individuals since 2002.


CAMP <http://studio.camp/> is a collaborative studio founded in Bombay in
2007. It has been producing fundamental new work in video and film,
electronic media and public art forms, in a practice characterised by a
hand-dirtying, non-alienated relation to technology. CAMP's projects have
entered many modern assemblies: energy, communication and surveillance
systems, neighbourhoods, ships, archives – things much larger than itself.
These are shown as not having a fixed function or destiny, making them both
a medium and stage for artistic activity.

CAMP’s work has been shown in venues such as Khoj, Sarai, Lalit Kala
Akademi and NGMA New Delhi, MoMA and New Museum New York, Serpentine
Galleries and Gasworks London, Ars Electronica Linz, HKW Berlin, MoMA
Warsaw, Askhal Alwan Beirut, Experimenter Kolkata, and Documenta 13 Kassel;
in the streets and markets of Bangalore, San Jose, Dakar, Mexico City, East
Jerusalem, Delhi and Bombay; in the biennials of Shanghai, Sharjah,
Gwangju, Taipei, Singapore, Liverpool and Kochi-Muziris; at film venues
such as the AV Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Viennale, Flaherty
Seminar, Anthology Film Archives, and CAMP’s own rooftop cinema. From their
home base in Chuim village, they co-host the online archives Pad.ma
<https://pad.ma/> and Indiancine.ma <https://indiancine.ma/>, among other
long-duree activities.


Ongoing:
*As If – I:*  *Rock, Paper, Scissors *at Experimenter, Kolkata
Till 10 February 2015

Upcoming:

*As If – III: **Country of the Sea* at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai
21 February - 2 April 2015


*As If – IV: **Night for Day* at Chemould Prescott Road Mumbai
9 March – 2 April 2015



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