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Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS)
CPS Chamber of Public Secrets (among others, Khaled Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti ) is a production unit of art and media: an informative, non-profit, independent contributor to the global cultural scene. The unit works as a network of artists, curators and thinkers who have been collaborating since 2004 in the organization, production and diffusion of film, documentaries, political fictions, festivals, TV and radio programmes and art exhibitions. CPS members also set up debate forums and talks and publish books and articles on issues like media representation, migration, mobility, aesthetic journalism, neo-colonialism, gender and difference. CPS contributes to question the position of artistic and media narratives, and the function and responsibility of both in relation to society.

CPS’s collaborative approach to encompasses (mass) media platforms such as television, internet to utilise broadcast airtime, online streaming, printed matter, human relations and physical venues as 'channels' in which we present different types of constructions. The organisation started to broadcast on the artist-run TV channel tv-tv in 2005. Since then, the collective has produced more than 30 programs. Independent video journalism, semi documentarism and experimental video making have been the orbit of the broadcasting. While keeping in mind the massive accessibility of the media and the variety of audiences, CPS wishes to stimulate a broadcast concept that will deal with socio-political / socio-cultural and society-related topics by presenting / interviewing controversial video makers, in particularly those who contribute to and form alternative channels of public information. Their website www.chamberarchive.org presents a library of past activities such as Made in Video, tv-tv, LAPTALK, and MidEast Cut.

The CPS recent project Chamber for Immigrant Visual Studies (www.chamberarchive.com) was established in Copenhagen 2007 as an independent, non-profit art project focusing on the visual aspects of immigration. Through collection, preservation, and provision of photographs and video films about immigrants in Denmark, builds a national, visual documentation centre from the period 1950 until today. Through exhibitions, debates, talks, symposiums, artist presentations, performances, slide shows and film screenings, the archive sheds light on the last 60 years’ immigration to Denmark. Simultaneously with this, it passes on knowledge of Danish immigrant societies and enhances the visual dialogue and social interaction between the original Danish population and the immigrant population.

Chamber of Public Secrets has been selected as one of the three curatorial collectives in charge of Manifesta 8. Manifesta 8 will take place in the Spanish cities of Murcia and Cartagena in 2010.

Chamber of Public Secrets now has branches in London, Copenhagen, Cairo, Bologna and Beirut.