▶ Nam June This year, when the role of the artist Paik hoped for was more important than ever, the 7th Nam June 2020'CAMP (CAMP, India)', which thinks about the future through work of resistance and openness, and presents the vision of the media Paik Art Center selected as an international art prize winner

▶ An artist who collaborates on an open platform, asks questions about social systems and technological infrastructure, and creates a relationship of sustainable communication and participation through art practice that crosses local and global issues.

▶ Nam June Paik Art Center plans to hold an online awards ceremony and related event in November, and a solo exhibition in the second half of 2021.

■ 2020 7th Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Award

The Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Awards Jury Committee selected CAMP (CAMP, India) as the winner of the 7th Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Awards in 2020. CAMP is a studio formed in Mumbai in 2007, with Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran and Sanjay Bhangar. CAMP, which is a collaboration of multiple artists, deals with a variety of media technologies through project execution consisting of research, intervention, presentation, and recording, working in the form of film, video, electronic media, and public art, and sharing them as open source. After the award was decided, CAMP said, "It is an honor to receive an award in the name of Nam June Paik, as the traumatic anxiety is multiplied and media interactions are taking place everywhere." We believe that friendship and invention that allows us to live and meet different times and spaces is the spirit contained in this award and will continue its value.”

▲ [Photo] Camp Studio appearance

The work of CAMP, which can be called “a scene and a combination of rethinking the strategy of survival through technical experiments conducted by directly bumping into the body,” said the artistic director of the Contemporary Arts Center, Jo Burt Factory in Vietnam. Explain that it is based on a belief in Here, “cooperation and exchange are essential to confront the governing power and its tools, and this belief in art not only appears in the methodology of the work, but also [...] the open neighborhood of CAMP, which is open to various forms of awareness. It is also important in the last name.”

Dieter Daniels, a professor at the University of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany, the chairman of the jury, noted that CAMP is "inheriting and expanding a process-oriented attitude," which appears in Nam June Paik's concepts of 'global groove' and 'random access information'. CAMP intervenes in the public domain based on open access, suggesting a participatory concept that lowers the threshold of various 'media's from electricity and energy, transportation and transportation, surveillance systems, archives, movies, video, radio, and the Internet. “By doing so,” he assessed that he had been working to “resist the power of global capital.”

Director Sungeun Kim, who participated as a judge, said, “In a world where words such as 'participatory' and 'relational' are losing their strength like a once-a-time buzzword, CAMP's way of working with dirt buried in his hands and reluctant to join forces with people.” “CAMP's work to redesign the concept of public, shared, and shared in search of true connection and solidarity against the force of neoliberalism has great implications for the network media culture, which is facing a new phase as a pandemic." It. The judges agreed that the Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Award now has a more distinct character lineage thanks to CAMP.

The awards ceremony for the winners will be held online in November and related events will also be held. CAMP selected as the winner will receive a prize of 50 million won and will hold a solo exhibition at Nam June Paik Art Center in the second half of 2021.

The Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Award is awarded by the Governor of Gyeonggi Province, and was established to discover people who inherited and expanded the experimental and creative spirit of Nam June Paik, who transcended the boundaries of visual arts. The purpose of this award is to promote the present meaning of Nam June Paik's art, who not only combined art and music, combined technology and art, but also sought new ways of communication. The 1st International Arts Awards in 2009 were jointly awarded by Seungtaek Lee, Eunmi Ahn, Robert Adrian X, and CL Floier, and the 2nd International Arts Awards were conferred by philosopher and sociologist Brno Latour. Subsequently, Doug Eightkin in 2012, Harun Mirza in 2014, Blast Theory in 2016, and Trevor Peglen in 2018 respectively.

■ Introduction of the Winner

CAMP is a Mumbai based collaboration studio. The name 'CAMP' is an abbreviation that varies according to a random combination of four words, 'Critical Art as Meta Practices', 'Citizens Among Marginal Politics', 'Metaphors. It has a variety of meanings such as 'Commons Allowing for Metaphorical Publics' and 'Campaign around Magical Promises'. CAMP's project, which deals with technology by directly hitting the body without alienating humans, deals with various social and technological aggregates such as energy, communication, transportation, surveillance systems, ports, ships, and archives. CAMP is not a technology with a fixed function or fate, but shows aspects of unstable, open and controversial technology, and uses technology as a medium and stage for artistic activity.

CAMP's work has been introduced not only in India, but also in the world's leading art scenes, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Berlin World Culture House, Ars Electronica, Anthology Film Archive, Sharjah Biennale, Kassel Documenta, and Münster Sculpture Project. He has also shown works in markets and streets in various cities, and has been running a rooftop theater for 14 years in Chuim Village, Mumbai, the base of which, as well as the online archives Pad.ma and Indiancine.ma.

▶ Go to CAMP official website

■ Regards to Nam June Paik Art Center's international art award: CAMP

First of all, thank you to the judges and to the Nam June Paik Art Center.

It is an honor to receive an award in the name of Nam June Paik as the media interactions that have become more common as traumatic anxiety multiply are taking place everywhere. <Good Morning Mr. Orwell>, which aired in 1984 and the sequel to <Bye Bye Kipling,> from 1986 are more poetic and meaningful in the context of today. In these works, the situation is always changing, and we have our own positions, so that we can be wrong, we can make mistakes, we can fail, and the works of artists are still more vivid milestones for the memories and desires of this planet. Remind you that it can be.

There is an old saying about the media. :) This means that all new media use the old media as their content. Television uses performances, movies, and novels, the Internet uses television soap operas, telephone conversations, and magazines, and artificial intelligence uses content on the Internet as content. Nam June Paik personally showed that the opposite direction is possible, and that it is possible in many other directions, even in the distant future where it is difficult to recognize. Television can be a piece of sculpture, but it can also be a garden or a broadcast art on a global scale. This is not just a metaphor. Rather than simply reassembling or regularizing one medium to fill another medium to gain some gain, there are certainly other movements. Art is not a subset of existing culture. Technology is not exhausted by current applications or criticism. You, or anyone else, can and dare to play in the gardens or gutters of the “media” again. After all, this is another word for the environment around us.

CAMP cherishes and conveys the values ​​of burying soil in hands, light body, shining generosity, transnationalism, media specificity, courage, relentlessness, artistic as well as universal values. In addition, we will continue to believe that friendship and invention that allows us to live and breathe and meet various time and space historically are the spirit contained in this award. Thank you to all the collaborators, friends and colleagues who have been with CAMP over the years. It will continue to be so in the future.

■ Introduction of Major Works

[Photos] Closed-circuit camera landscape of Farrell Jersey in Mumbai, 2017 CAMP's Shaina Anand, Simfrit Singh, and Ashoku Sukumaran give a lecture while manipulating live streaming of a closed circuit TV at the IMAX Pavilion at the PVR Phoenix Theater in Mumbai.

[Photo] 〈Four Letters Movie〉, 2004-2015 Installation view, 《CAMP: Starting Point》, Argos Audiovisual Arts Center, Brussels, 2019

[Photo] 〈Inside the Camera〉, 2019 Installation view (partial), Amsterdam de Arpels, 4K closed circuit TV camera automatic shooting editing 3-channel video

[Photo] 〈Photogenic Line〉, 2019 Installation view (partial), Kolkata Experiencer Gallery, Daily newspaper The Hindu Commission, Sennai Photo Biennale

[Photo] <The Matrix>, 2017 Installation view (part), Munster sculpture project, electric wire, switch, speaker, self-made electronic device

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