A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
What do seven hundred boxes moving between Batam and Singapore carry, beyond their contents? Prompted by CAMP's work: Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale, Boxes, Borders, Biji, Cipta takes a single 20-foot, half-imaginary container as a starting point for a conversation about trade and invention, food and language, and the short stretch of water that both connects and divides.
This event opens outward to the broader Malay world that Singapore sits within, to food as material history, informal trade and shared memory, and to the border as a cut in film: something that shapes appetite and story as much as it regulates it. Details shortly.
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.
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, perfomative media.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.
Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.
Irina presents ideas from an upcoming co-authored book on cyberfeminism, Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices, out this year.
Guna will speak about a recent exhibition series across South East Asia, the first of which is named Menggodam.
Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण
CAMP took part in the 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme events.
International Seminar on Documentary Film
“A collective / inarticulate harmony.”
A video performance tour of the work in three-acts with Shaina and Ashok.
Choreographies of the Everyday and Tokyo Art Week