Anand + Sukumaran / Studio CAMP: “Privilege Escalation: Post-Network Spatial Relations” [Lecture]
Monday Sep-20 @ noon EST
[Public Livestream Link]
Shaina Anand + Ashok Sukumaran
Studio CAMP / Mumbai
Privilege Escalation: Post-Network Spatial Relations
Rensselaer School of Architecture continues its Fall 2021 Lecture Series this Monday September 20th at noon with the online lecture “Privilege Escalation: Post-Network Spatial Relations” by architects Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran.
Anand and Sukumaran are founding members of CAMP, a collaborative studio founded in Bombay in 2007 that has been producing fundamental new work in film and video, electronic media, and public art forms. They describe their practice as…
“… a hand-dirtying non-alienated relation to technology. CAMP’s projects have entered many modern social and technical assemblies: energy, communication, transport and surveillance systems, ports, ships, archives – things much larger than itself.”
From their home base in Mumbai, CAMP co-host the online archives pad.ma (est. 2008) and indiancine.ma (est. 2013) and run a rooftop cinema for the past 14 years. Their artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including recent solos at the Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels, and the De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Documenta 13 (2012) and Documenta 14 film program (2017); as well in the streets and markets of Bangalore, San Jose, Dakar, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Kolkata, Kabul, Delhi, Ljubljana and Bombay. They participated the biennials of Shanghai, Sharjah, Gwangju, Taipei, Singapore, Liverpool, Chicago, Lahore and Kochi-Muziris;
Their work is has been showcase in platforms like the BFI London Film Festival, Viennale, FID Marseille, Flaherty Seminar and the Anthology Film Archives; and in art institutions such as MoMA, New Museum, Queens Museum and e-flux New York, Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, and Gasworks London, HKW Berlin, Ars Electronica, Linz, MoMA Warsaw, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Palestinian Museum, Birzeit to name a few.
In October 2020 they were awarded the 7th Nam June Paik Centre Prize.