On November 20, at 6:30 p.m., the School of Arts will host a Masterclass with Shaina Anand, founding member of the CAMP collective, in the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium, in an initiative promoted in partnership with Doc's Kingdom.
In this masterclass, Shaina will explore her artistic practices and the deep relationships she has with the communities with whom she develops her projects. In anticipation of the masterclass, a mini-cycle will be screened with two films made by the collective: The Neighbour Before the House (2009-2011) and From Gulf, to Gulf, to Gulf (2013).
Coletivo CAMP
CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Bombay in 2007. It has been producing fundamental new work in film and video, electronic media, and public art forms, in a practice characterised by 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. These are shown as unstable, leaky, and contestable "technology", in the ultimate sense of not having a fixed-function or destiny, making them both a medium and stage for artistic activity. From their home base in Mumbai, they co-host the online archives pad.ma (est. 2008) and indiancine.ma (est. 2013) and run a rooftop cinema for the past 15 years.
CAMP’s artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including recent performances at M+, Hong Kong (2023) and and solos at The Museum of Modern Art, New York,(2025), and the De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Documenta 13 (2012) and Documenta 14 film program (2017), in the streets and markets of Bangalore, San Jose, Dakar, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Kolkata, Kabul, Delhi, Ljubljana and Bombay; in the biennials of Shanghai, Sharjah, Gwangju, Taipei, Singapore, Liverpool, Chicago, Lahore and Kochi-Muziris; at film platforms like the BFI London Film Festival, Viennale, FID Marseille, Flaherty Seminar, Light Industry, and the Anthology Film Archives, and in art institutions such as Bombay, 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.
