Essay as a part of Half-Life, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Art Institute of Chicago within the context of its exhibition “Static Range” by Himali Singh Soin

HUNGRY FOR TIME

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The Laughter of Tears
Freeing the weight of the habitual
Text by Raqs, published in Curatography, Issue 2, Curators Living Rooms, Curating Asia International, 2021
The event-shaped hole and the photographic image
Text by Raqs, published in the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 30 No. 61-62 (2021): The Changing Ontology of the Image
Making bets while knowing nothing
Text by Raqs, published in The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Sharing our Sources
Text by Raqs (and extracts from essays), in the first publication accompanying “Afterglow”, Yokohama Triennale 2020, curated by Raqs Media Collective
The Double Act of Flower-Time
Text by Raqs, published in Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm, editors Cameron Cartiere + Leon Tan, 2021
Ten nonillion particles and Five Million Incidents
Text by Raqs, published by the Goethe Institut, 2020
Recensions, without Originals
Text by Raqs
Text by Raqs, for Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices: A Shared Vocabulary, 2021

In the Open or in Stealth
“With Respect to Residue”. Raqs Media Collective, Decolonial Museum as UFO
Text by Natasha Eaton, on Raqs’s work. Published in Third Text online Forum: Decolonial Imaginaire

To People & Demos

Time Devices (2011- 18)
Protest as Polyphony: An interview with Raqs Media Collective
Interview with Raqs by Melissa Karmen Lee, published in ASAP/Journal vol. 3.2, 2018
To Ask when Empty, To pour when Full
Text by Raqs, “On the aestheticization of Politics”

THEORY OPERA – Soldiers under the Debris

Theory Opera – Excellent Excuse

Theory Opera – Einstein Bergson (CN)

The necessity of Infinity

The Blood of Stars – a walk in 10 scenes

Alive, with Cerussite and Peppered Moth

The Emperor’s Old Clothes & Hollowgram

The Translator’s Silence

Undoing walls

Communard Biscuits
We are here but is it now? (The submarine horizons of contemporaneity)
Text by Raqs, published as a monograph for “The Contemporary Condition” series, series editors Geoff Cox + Jacob Lund, 2017

The Return of Tipoo’s Tiger
Dyeing Inayat Khan
Propositioning the World: Raqs Media Collective and the Shanghai Biennale
Interview with Maya Kóvskaya
As if by design
Text by Raqs, published under “Superhumanity” for the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial

Night & Day, Day & Night

Time Gatherings

Seven Billion and One

Asankh/ Countless

Lost in Search of Time

Homo Speculos

Coronation Park 

Bureaux of Raqs and Faqs

Fever, Fever

Art in the age of collective intelligence & If the world is a fair place then..

The Namak Haram’s Philosophy, Revised & One meter of truth (knowledge)

Art as place: A proposition
An Ephemeris, Corrected for the Longitudes of Tomorrow: Speculations on the Orbit and Motion of Objects and Processes in Contemporary Art, today, and tomorrow.
Text by Raqs. Published in Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn. Editors Jill H. Casid + Aruna D’ Souza. Clark Studies in the Visual Arts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown & Yale University Press, 2014

Time Interruptions (2009, 2014)

The Fruits of Labour

Reverse Engineering the Euphoria Machine
A history of infinity and some fresh catastrophes: On Raqs Media Collective’s The Capital of Accumulation
Text by Cuauhtémoc Medina, eflux journal #38
A letter to Amália Jyran, who will be fifty-four in 2061 CE
Text by Raqs, written to accompany Raqs’ contribution to the Momentum Nordic Biennale of 2011

Revoltage

Time Capsule from 2011 (TO BE OPENED IN 2061)

How to get from here to there

Rewriting on the wall
In Rewriting On the Wall, hand-prints are reconfigured to produce an alphabet of gestures—each a gloss of the letters in standard American Sign Language as used by deaf and mute people. The letters add up to a text (which accompanies the work): a stammering, hesitant, syntactically unsure consideration (written by a hand that appears on the wall like the hand that wrote on the wall in the episode of Belshazzar’s feast in the Old Testament) of the relationship between ‘I’ and ‘We’ and the horizon that encompasses singular and plural modes of being.

More Salt In Your Tears

Seen at Secunderabagh

The Untold Intimacy of Digits

An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale
A Frame of Mind: Researching Documentaries
Text by Raqs
Yaksha Prashna: The Riverbank Episode
Text by Raqs
Raqs Media Collective : Casebook.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Surjection by Raqs Media Collective of New Delhi, held at the Art Gallery of York University from 22 September through 4 December, 2011, and curated by Philip Monk.

36 Planes of Emotion & One Meter of Truth (Emotion)

Strikes At time
Within the Flux of the Contemporary. Parul Dave Mukherjee in conversation with Raqs Media Collective
Published in Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics, editors: Jos de Mul + Renée van de Vali, 2011

Premonition

Misadventures of A Phantom Limb
