From the category: Video Art. Part I

CAMP brings you a selection of works on video that are well-known and "published" in some form, but are nevertheless hard to find.

In part I, these are mostly videos from the US and Europe, which points to certain conditions in online networks, that we would like to address. After we enjoy the videos.

We will proceed as follows (note changes!):

Martha Rosler [Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975] 7 mins.
Fischli and Weiss [Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987, excerpt] 5 mins.
Cao Fei [Whose Utopia?, 2006] 20 mins.
William Kentridge [Mine, 1991] 6 mins.
Jeremy Deller / Mike Figgis [Battle of Orgreave, 2001, excerpt] 45 mins.

TEA BREAK, prithvi cafe. 20 min.

Peter Greenaway [The Coastline, 1983] 26 mins.
Walid Ra'ad and the Atlas Group [The Bachar Tapes, 2000] 16 mins.
Nate Harrison [Can I Get an Amen? 2004] 18 mins.
K-Foundation [Watch the K-Foundation burn a Million Quid, 1995]. 45 mins.

These videos were all downloaded over the last two weeks, from online sharing networks. Ofcourse, anyone with an internet connection can do this, and we shall see how.

The event will include further opportunities to appreciate, discuss, and take part in the condition that:
parallel to (and not necessarily opposing) markets of absurdly-priced and controlled art (and other) objects, these "copies" exist, and are being shared and distributed for free. What motivates this phenomenon, and how are relations between such different "publications" sustained? What aspects of the original context, artistic intentions, institutional structures, and the nature of digital video itself contribute to this? Who benefits?

A discussion will accompany the final video.
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" Publicity operates through the threat of
publication, through the motivating force that
accompanies risk of exposure and desire for attention.
Without that risk, there can be no public."
- Jodi Dean, Publicity's Secret.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008.
6 pm. - 9 pm.

At
1st Floor, Prithvi House,
Opp. Prithvi Theater,
Janki Kutir,
Juhu,
Mumbai-49