"As If - II: Flight of the Black Boxes" an exhibition of Video works by CAMP at 24 Jor Bagh > 27th January to 24th February 2015

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27th January : 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Add to Calendar 27-01-2015 18:00:00 27-01-2015 20:00:00 68 "As If - II: Flight of the Black Boxes" an exhibition Event Page : http://goo.gl/QESHvt 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi 110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
28th January to 24th February : 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm Add to Calendar 28-01-2015 12:00:00 24-02-2015 20:00:00 68 "As If - II: Flight of the Black Boxes" an exhibition Event Page : http://goo.gl/QESHvt 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi 110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Venue : 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi 110003
Venue Info : Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'JLN Stadium(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : "As If - II: Flight of the Black Boxes" an exhibition.


Outset India and Gujral Foundation presents Flight of the Black Boxes, the second in the series of four shows titled As If, by CAMP with support from Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Experimenter Gallery and also Khoj International Artists’ Association, Devi Art Foundation and Gallery Volte. 

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 itself tells a story in a new work called "Four-Letter Film".

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. 

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 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 and Indiancine.ma, among other long-duree activities.

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