CAMP
By Tarun Nagesh
‘11th Asia Pacific Triennial’ August 2024
CAMP
Established 2007, Mumbai, India
Live and work in Mumbai
CAMP’s studio is a centre of social and artistic activity in the neighbourhood of Chuim Village, Mumbai. The group of artists has a focused interest in infrastructures and forms of cinema and archiving; they have been engaging with closed-circuit television (CCTV) and video imaging since the early 2000s, understanding the medium and its technological evolution; investigating its social and authoritative implications by entering control rooms with members of the public; and deploying surveillance cameras as an affective medium to create new forms of documentary film.
Bombay Tilts Down 2002 is a culmination of this longstanding engagement in CCTV phenomena — creating a new way to examine the social and structural hierarchies and categories of CAMP’s home city. Filmed using a remote-controlled pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) CCTV camera mounted at a single-point location on the 35th floor of a building in South Central Mumbai, Bombay Tilts Down is choreographed as ‘a landscape movie in facets’.
View of CAMP's (India est. 2007 / Ashok Sukumaran, Jan Gerber, Rohan Chavan, Shaina Anand, Simpreet Singh and Zinnia Ambapardiwala (artists)) Bombay Tilts Down 2022, installed at GOMA for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, January 2025 / Seven-channel 4K video environment, with alternating soundtrack: colour, sound, 13:14 minutes (looped) / Filmed by a CCTV camera from a single-point location in South Central Mumbai / Soundtrack: Tushar Adhav, with KA Abbas, Amar Shaikh Kala Pathak, Anna Bhau Sathe, Avahan Natya Manch, Begum Akhtar, Dhondutai Kulkarni, Narayan Surve, Neela Bhagwat, Sambhaji Bhagat, Vilas Ghogre / Courtesy and © The artists / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA
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