Through Jul 20, 2025
MoMA
Video After Video showcases nearly two decades of creative output by CAMP, a Mumbai-based collaborative artists’ studio founded in 2007. Utilizing accessible technologies such as CCTV, cell phone cameras, and the internet, CAMP reimagines how we interact with the omnipresent visual systems surrounding us daily.
The exhibition features three pivotal works that transform the relationship between video producers, distributors, and audiences. These include a participatory television network in a dense New Delhi neighborhood, a film created with sailors traversing Indian Ocean trade routes using mobile footage and music, and an expansive multi-channel video panorama of Mumbai captured through a single surveillance camera pushed beyond its limits.
Through their innovative practice, CAMP challenges entrenched social, political, and economic systems by repurposing communication devices, surveillance equipment, and transportation infrastructures into platforms of hope, desire, collective action, and alternative narratives. Additionally, CAMP plays a crucial role in fostering the digital commons by co-creating publicly accessible, richly annotated online video archives that serve as resources for research, education, and discourse.
This presentation invites viewers to critically engage with the multifaceted afterlives of video media and reflect on the evolving dynamics of visibility in contemporary life.
