As If All The Parts Were Slowly Changing

Artists: CAMP

March 20, 2015 | 6.30 pm
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

CAMP talks about the mutual development of ideas, collaborations and “encounter strategies” in As If (I- IV), their series of ongoing exhibitions across Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai. As If is expanded upon as the title and framing device of these series of shows. In conjunction with their exhibition, As If – IV Night for Day, at Chemould Prescott Road, the Mohile Parikh Center presents a talk, followed by a walkthrough by CAMP.

In early film craft, Day for Night was when night scenes were shot in the day – a trick of necessity. Night for Day propagates this idea in the reverse direction. Screens fill the space with electric, sonic, filmic and other uncategorisable works from 2003 to 2015 that took place in the nighttime worlds of Bombay, Delhi, Kabul, Dakar, London, and other non-places exploring time, energy and imagination on the other side of the ‘every day’. CAMP brings into the gallery their version of what was once called the ‘virtual’, which not so long ago broke the horizon of what is (or what could have been) possible to see, hear or sense.

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. CAMP’s work has shown in prestigious galleries, biennales, seminars, and film festivals across the world, and also in streets, markets, and their own rooftop cinema. From their base in Chuim village, they co-host the online archives http://pad.ma and http://indiancine.ma, among other long-duree activities.