The Necessity of Infinity ‘From the Cosmos to the Commons,’ Stadtkuratorin Hamburg (2025) Reading performance, Performers, musical tone generators The Necessity of Eternity is a lecture performance that recounts one of the most exciting yet often overlooked exchanges in intellectual history. In 999 CE, a 28-year-old Al Beruni, writing from the shores of the Aral Sea […]
Blood Moon, 2024/2025 & A Day in the Life of Kiribati, 2014Shown at: ‘From the Cosmos to the Commons’, Stadtkuratorin Hamburg (2025) Blood Moon is the recent piece made for the Hamburg Planetarium. Different orientations of the clock describe the ways in which the moon affects us as humans, in our hearts and on our skin, altering our […]
Centered on a forty‑minute film and accompanied by a suite of prints, Cavalcade zooms in on a gathering where humans and non-humans jostle for space, becoming a procession, a parade, a revue, a dream converging in fluid motion.
Tables of Destiny, Overturned/पलटता हुआ नक्शाShown at: ‘Zangezi’, Zurich Arts Weekend, Immersive Arts Space, Zurich Video installationDuration, 8′ 18″ At 5:27 am, five minutes less than an hour before sunrise, on the 12th of September, 1918, in the South Eastern Russian town of Astrakhan, not far from the Caspian Sea (a lake so big that […]
Hosted at the Neubauer Collegium, Chicago on May 8, 2025, the Artist Talk & Discussion brings together Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta in conversation with Dipesh Chakravarty and Prathama Banerjee, moderated by Dieter Roelstraete.
In commemoration of the terror attacks of 22 July 2011, Norway will establish a national memorial in connection with the new Government Quarter in central Oslo. KORO (Public Art Norway) is commissioned to lead the project’s first phase. Raqs Media Collective has been shortlisted as one of three finalists for the same. Raqs’ proposal engages […]
Wayfaring Ways To Be Solo ExhibitionHanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2025) Two things distinguish the human species: an ability to walk upright, and a capacity to think, straight and crooked. Walking expands horizons. Eyes travel further. Thinking loosens the tongue, in joy, in awe, in shame, in audacity. We begin talking, and we have not […]
The Moon Clock is a device to tell the time. At midnight, and at noon, lies the moon. With the passing of the hours, it clocks the waxing and the waning of crimson moon-minutes
Twisted Time (2024) is formed from two glass bicycle wheels mounted on a mirrored plinth where they rotate slowly
Borderlands (2024) is a series of seven laser engravings on black sandpaper. Rendered black on black, the hard-to-decipher drawings riff off medieval depictions of animals where the intended creature and its depiction only nominally match.
Text by Raqs, published in ‘A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework’ (2024), edited by Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones.
A configuration of five graphic ‘imprints’ and three augmented-reality ‘interferences spread across various levels of The Cosmic House, London.
Autoluminous is an index of our awareness of the inscription of energy into every waking, sleeping and dreaming moment.
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