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The Country of the Sea, From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, Hold

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Studio CAMP


CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in 2007 in Mumbai. Their projects are situated in modern, social, and technological contexts and focus on stationary and mobile structures of collection, communication, and distribution. Their work The Country of the Sea (2015/16), a large-scale, solar-exposed cyanotype of littoral cities of the Western Indian Ocean, is inspired by a hand-painted scroll-map from Gujarat from 1810, and the journeys of modern-day sea-farers CAMP has been working with over the last several years. In it, a new transnational and transactional space emerges. Accompanying this map is a screening of the widely traveled feature-length film From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2013): a vast, undulating, and musical spatio-temporal journey through the gulfs of Kutch, Persia, and Aden from the mariners’ point of view. Filmed over four years, through friendship and exchange, the film follows the physical crossings made by oversized wooden vessels that still today enable a vital order of a “world-trade” that moves perpendicular to the phenomena of both piracy and sanctions. Finally, in Hold (2016)the abstract volume and contents of the boats’ hold is experienced via printed freight documents that soar through the exhibition hall at certain times, adding another inner dimension of what normally remains out of sight. 

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Video Screening From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Thu, 16 June, 8:30 pm