Campus Walk

March 16, 2008 - March 16, 2008

Around 4 in the evening, the sun came out for a bit. Stuart, (who we had earlier visited at 2am on Friday night to witness the night shift) takes me for a walk around the MMU area. He maps all 36 'open street' cameras. Steve in the control keeps close track on us, cameras overhead rotate and tilt down. I film them instinctively, like animals stalking prey they watch, dark-eyed. Keeping Steve company in the control room are Chris and Anna and Elizabeth, the 4 o'clock visitors. As Stuart and me end our camera count, they spy 2 of their friends cutting across the park.


Campus Walk

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CCTV Social

In March 2008 Shaina Anand collaborated with Manchester Metropolitan University and Arndale Shopping Centre to open working CCTV environments to a general audience. People normally 'enclosed' by these networks came into the control rooms to view, observe and monitor this condition, endemic in the UK.



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Doc’s Kingdom
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Odemira, Portugal

International Seminar on Documentary Film
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

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METABOLIC CONTAINER

Starting from 400 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. Then, a process of mixing, de-processing, upstreaming, downstreaming, imagining, inventing.

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Sept. 7, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Inlaks Fine Art Awardees 2025
6 week residency with CAMP

You are invited to the Open Day of Inlaks 2025 Fine Art Awardees 6-week residency with CAMP.
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In depth discussion of the works, 4 pm to 6 pm.
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Aug. 23, 2025 - Nov. 24, 2025
MOT, Tokyo

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Moma)

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

CAMP Study Day
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

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Light Industry, NY

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Light Industry
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The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.

TIME FLICKERS
April 26, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.

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