Shaina Anand / Ashok Sukumaran
Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and artist, and a co-initiator of CAMP and Pad.ma. She has been working independently in film/video since 1997. In 2001, she founded ChitraKarKhana, a fully independent unit for experimental media. Her recent works continue to be informed by an interest in information politics, and by a critique of documentary film. Her works create new assemblies from within the operative terrains of contemporary media – television, cable TV, surveillance infrastructures, video archives – towards further possibilities for image and narrative.
Ashok Sukumaran's interests are in archaeologies of media, and in what haunts or underlies network forms and material distributions. Recent subjects in his work include urban water, electricity, cycle rickshaws, sea trade, and "the neighbour". His work takes the form of public projects, exhibitions, films, lectures, and long-term collaborations via CAMP, which he co-founded in 2007.
CAMP, a space and work studio in Bombay, India, originated in a will to work collectively on a number of areas around technology, art, archives, the public sphere and contemporary life. Working with many media and platforms, CAMP seeks to create structures of support and enquiry, and formats of production, distribution and exhibition. CAMP are co-initiators of the Pad.ma footage archive, initiators of the Wharfage project on sea trade, and host events and symposia from their home base.
Exhibitions (with CAMP)
2012 dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (DE). 2011 Against all odds, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi. 10th Sharjah Biennial. Folkestone Triennial. The matter within, Yerba Buena Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Two stages of invention, Experimenter, Kolkatta. 2010 Liverpool Biennial. 2009 9th Sharjah Biennial. The Neighbour, P3, London. The Jerusalem Show, Al-Ma’mal, Jerusalem. Transitio_MX Festival, Mexico City. If we can’t get it together, Power Plant, Toronto.