“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
Unruly Iris of Dissent (U.I.D 2), Swamp & Marsh
Unruly Iris of Dissent (U.I.D 2), Swamp & MarshProjection of Video Loop, Variable Dimensions and, Prints (1 x 1 m)Exhibited at Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi (2023) 12 years after The Unlikely Intimacy of Digits […]
An Infra-vocabulary for Capital
An Infra-vocabulary for Capital (2023) Vinyl on wall, dimensions variable Further Annotation to ‘Notations on Time’ by Raqs Media Collective at Ishara Foundation, Dubai Upright board with an inscribed ‘Infra-Vocabulary’ of a selection from Raqs […]
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
Betaal / बे-ताल / Arrhythmic
Betaal / बे-ताल / ArrhythmicWires, Towers, Tablets and Augmented Reality Figures‘Being Theoria’, Zhejiang Art Museum, 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, China (2022) In many Indic languages, there are spectral, arrhythmic beings who exist between […]
Time Travel: Board Game for Two Players
Time Travel : Board Game for Two Players Game board, scrabble squares, instructions 2022 and ongoing Time Travel was launched as a game during the Primary Forms 2, an exhibition of artists games for children […]
soDA Magazine Story
soDA magazine 19, Zurich (2002); Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada), Raqs presented the concept of “Event-shaped Hole” which translated into the essay The Event-shaped Hole and the Photographic Image in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 2021 […]
HUNGRY FOR TIME
Hungry for Time An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media CollectiveArt Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 9 October 2021–30 January 2022 The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has undergone a fundamental […]
The Laughter of Tears
The Laughter of Tears | 2021 Solo Exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany A Gathering of Birds Audio loop with 3 Speakers Ferment Readymade canopy silkscreen 450 x 450 cm Starlings speak in tongues. Starlings fall […]
When Proust Catches the Glare
When Proust Catches the Glare, 2021Video, Text, Scanned Handwriting. 7 minutes, 45 seconds As the earth turns to spin slightly faster than before in 2021, and as the heavens break ranks, involuntary memories return to […]
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 Pandemic Circle: Trilogy of handwritten videos
“Together, this suite of poignant and poetic videos grapple with the pervasive and dispersed impact on daily routines and relationships with one another, and beyond, in the age of the Coronavirus. In the summer of 2020, […]
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
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona 31 October 2018 to 17 March 2019 A realignment of resources, technologies, and energies is taking place. The intimationof this emergent ensemble, however, is faint and tangled.The exhibition is […]
Deep Breath
Deep Breath | 2019Film (25 minutes) Pamphilos | Athens Sometimes, the finding of an antidote to the most basic and lethal form of amnesia, ‘the forgetting of air’, may require the undertaking of a deep […]
To People, Demos & Prostheses for the History of Insurgent Crowds
To People (2019) 11 Textile and 2 Prints on paper, 100 x 500 cm each Still More World | Mathaf | Doha Eleven hand-woven carpets and two paper prints are hung throughout the gallery, cascading […]
Time Devices (2011- 18)
Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat | 4 min 31 seconds Animated Horological Video, Words Click here to watch the video (email us on studio@raqsmediacollective.net to request access) A Day in the Life of Kiribati […]
Not yet at ease
Not Yet At Ease | 2018 Installation, Sound, Video, Treated Archival Footage and Photographs, Interpreted Documents FirstSite, Colchester, United Kingdom (2018) and ‘Spinal’, Fifth Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019) Invoking transcripts of letters and […]
Provisions for everybody (film)
Provisions for Everybody Single screen, Video, 50 minutes, Furniture 2018 “Provisions for Everybody” inscribes an eccentric itinerary on and off the trail of George Orwell that accompanies a reading of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’. […]
Provisions for everybody
Provisions for Everybody Installation: 3 Videos, large drawing print, 3 dhurrie banners, drawings on vinyl, found furnitureAV Festival, Newcastle (2018), ‘Still More World’ Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2019) “Coal Mine. Windmill. Sugarcane Field. […]
Provisions
Project 88 (Mumbai) 2018 “everything is burning” Raqs Media Collective returns to Project 88, Mumbai with “Provisions”, an exhibition that brings together the premiere in India of an ambitious recent video travelogue, ‘Provisions for Everybody’ […]
The Assurance Clock & Toxicare
Featured in digital posters It’s Urgent! Part II & III, Luma Westbau, Zurich 2018 The Assurance Clock The clock in the poster is an embodiment of assurance, the opposite of alarm. This is an attitude […]
Workers and Robots Enter A Factory Canteen
Manga style text-image assemblage. Ten screen printed panels on newsprint. Unlimited Edition 2018 Graphics by Freddy Corasco An imagined conversation between real, embodied and artificial forms of intelligence, set in a moment of respite on […]
To Ask, When Empty
To Ask, When Empty |2018 5 Lenticular Panels, 1ft. X 2ft each Project 88 | Mumbai A suite of six uniquely colourful lenticular prints offer a dance of terse imperatives at the intersection of will […]
Toxicity in Equal Measure
Toxicity in Equal Measure Layered sheets with perforations on felt, leather, rubber, copper, steel, cardboard, fabric and acrylic, with gold impressions. 22 frames, 1 ft. X 1 ft. each Project 88 | Mumbai (2018) A […]
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 – Soldiers under the DebrisShanghai Biennale | 11 November 2016 – 12 March 2017
Theory Opera – Excellent Excuse
THEORY OPERA – EXCELLENT EXCUSEShanghai Biennale | 11 November 2016 – 12 March 2017
Theory Opera – Einstein Bergson (CN)
THEORY OPERA – EINSTEIN BERGSON (CN)Shanghai Biennale | 11 November 2016 – 12 March 2017
The necessity of Infinity
The necessity of Infinity | 2017 Reading performance, Carpet, gold embroidery, Performers, musical tone generators; Carpet Dimensions 4 x 4.8m | Exhibited at Sharjah Biennale 2017, Sharjah “The Necessity of Eternity” recounts what must be […]
The Blood of Stars – a walk in 10 scenes
Site specific intervention at the Statsberget Cave Single screen, Video, 13 minutes Extracts from a Future History | Lulea (email us on studio@raqsmediacollective.net to request access)
Alive, with Cerussite and Peppered Moth
Alive, with Cerussite and Peppered Moth 3D printed PLA plastic, cast polyester resin, plywood and video projections Architectural Collaborators: Palak Jhunjhunwala and Stratis Georgiu Exhibition History: Whitworth, Manchester (2017) Mathaf, Doha (2018) Palais de Tokyo, […]
The Emperor’s Old Clothes & Hollowgram
The Emperor’s Old Clothes | 2017 3D printed PLA Plastic and cast polyester resin Shortlisted for fourth plinth on Trafalgar Square Hollowgram| 2017 3D printed PLA plastic, cast polyester resin, plywood and video projections Serpentine Gallery […]
The Translator’s Silence
The Translator’s Silence | 2017 Three lenticular panels, 22 inches x 36.6 inches each
Undoing walls
Undoing Walls| 2017 1’ 55” Animation loop, Variable Dimensions Can a “dysfunctional” wall structure be imagined so as to question the original intentions of a Government? Can a “welcoming” and useful wall be created; one […]
Communard Biscuits
Communard Biscuits (2017) 3 D Printing, Silicone mould, flour, water, salt500 biscuits, 9 x 1 x 1 cm (each) Exhibited at Whitworth, Manchester A hard tack biscuit from the Paris Commune of 1871 was 3D scanned, […]
Presetomorrow
Presentomorrow Installation with Video, Still Images and Animated Text Exhibited at Mondialité curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels 2017 The installation presented within the framework of Mondialité makes references to […]
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
The Return of Tipoo’s Tiger | 2017 Performance, 2 video projections, masks, paper plaques V&A Museum | London
Dyeing Inayat Khan
Dyeing Inayat Khan (2016) 2- channel video installation, color and sound New Sensorium, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2016) | Nature Morte, Bikaner House, Delhi (2021) Animation and editing: Ikroop Sandhu and Rajan Singh Click here to watch the […]
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
24-hour clock, words | Asamayavali/Untimely Calendar, NGMA (2015)
Time Gatherings
Meanwhile Elsewhere | 2014 Words, Clock-face Design on Vinyl Raqs Media Collective Berlin | Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Luminous will | 2015 Exhibition at SMFA, Boston
Seven Billion and One
Seven Billion and One | 2015 Variations of the infinity sign in gold pigment, on pages of newspapers coated with black ink (English, Hindi, Urdu), 108 sheets of 22 x 14.5 inches SMFA (School of the […]
Asankh/ Countless
Asankh/ Countless | 2014 Digital Print on ACP, acrylic (6 x 4 ft.) | Untimely Calendar, solo show at NGMA (2014) The material infinitude that makes up the real world, Raqs argues, is a swirling, […]
Lost in Search of Time
Lost in Search of Time | 2015 Steel, Matt Automotive Paint, Text, Electrics | K21, Dusseldorf
Homo Speculos
Homo Speculos | 2015 5 true mirrors in matt-black columns (38 x 38 x 168 cm, 38 x 38 x 162 cm, 38 x 38 x 138 cm, 38 x 38 x 128 cm, 38 […]
Coronation Park 
Coronation Park | 2015 Eight sculptures (resin), nine plinths (wood and bitumen) and nine plaques (faux black marble) Giardini | All the World’s Futures’, Venice Biennale, 2015
Bureaux of Raqs and Faqs
Bureaux of Raqs and Faqs | 2015 Found furniture, index cards, words, plaques, electronic word displays, text and a scenario Exhibited at MUAC (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo)| Mexico City
Fever, Fever
Fever, Fever | 2015 Digital video, photo-constellations, match boxes, archival prints, 6’29’’ min (played in loop) Global Imaginations | Museum De Lakenhal | Leiden, The Netherlands
Art in the age of collective intelligence & If the world is a fair place then..
Art in the Age of Collective Intelligence | 2015 40 photo prints on Moab metallic silver paper, giclee, 24 inches x 24 inches each Adam Aronson Gallery, Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis | Missouri If […]
The Namak Haram’s Philosophy, Revised & One meter of truth (knowledge)
The Namak Haram’s Philosophy, Revised | 2012 Treated Photographic Diptych, 96.6 inches x 24.4 inches Words, A user’s manual | Gallery 320 | New Delhi Every book demands another, but not all of them get written. […]
Future Plans
Drawing animation Duration: 3 minutes Untimely Calendar/Asamayavali, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi (2014) In the world of labour, men and women, animals and devices come together and diverge in all sorts of […]
The Museum of Lost Constellations
Thirteen Lost Constellations Grus, The Flamingo, or The Crane Cerberus, the Three-Headed Dog Custodian of the Harvest Ramus Pomifer, The Apple Branch Lilium, The Lilies Officina Typographica, The Printing Office Quadrans Muralis, The Mural Quadrant […]
Art as place: A proposition
Editor’s note: The three curatorial projects City as studio, Art as a place and Common ground conceived between 2009- 2014 are an extension of Raqs’s engagement with the creative community that reimagine the questions around […]
Carbon Twilight & Sleepwalker’s Caravan
Carbon Twilight Video loop Duration: 3:13 minutes Exhibited at “Untimely Calendar/ Asamayavali”, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi (2014) The gatekeepers of the treasury have left the gates of the bank to stand […]
The Last International & Three Meetings That May Have Happened, Underwater or Mid-Air
The Last International Installation with banners, screens, and trees, projections, symposium, reading performance and multiple performer actions Performed and Exhibited at Performa Festival, New York (2013) Collaboration in scenography, choreography and performance with Zuleikha Chaudhuri […]
Activo y Pasivo | Assets and Debts
Activo y Pasivo / Assets and Debts Room Installation Size: 10 x 10 x 7 ft. Medium: Wood and glass room, wallpaper, tubelights, carpet Exhibited at ‘It’s Possible Because It’s Possible’, CA2M, Madrid (2014), Untimely Calendar, NGMA, […]
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
A History of Photography
Six photographic prints 2 x 2 ft. each Exhibited at Untimely Calendar, NGMA, New Delhi (2014) Reading the censored letters of soldiers from the Indian sub-continent writing home in the First World War becomes a […]
Corrections to the First Draft of History
Corrections to the First Draft of History Newsprint, chalkboard paint and chalk Dimensions variable Exhibited in an eponymous solo exhibition, at Frith Street Gallery, London (2014) followed by Untimely Calendar, NGMA, New Delhi (2014) In 1850, a […]
A Fortunate Spell of Pleasant Amnesia
A Fortunate Spell of Pleasant Amnesia Digital print on Hahnemuhle paper 305 x 61 inches Exhibited in Clark House initiated ‘Artists Against AFSPA’ at NGMA, Mumbai (2011), ‘Waiting for the Wind’, Experimenter, Kolkata (2014) and […]
Autodidact’s Transport
Autodidact’s Transport Train carriage interior refurnishing, specially woven fabric, vinyl, short films, orations Public Art Project, Gwangju Folly, Gwangju Metro System, China 2014 The Autodidact’s Transport is a transformation of the interior of a Gwangju local metro […]
Log Book Entry Before Storm
Log Book Entry Before Storm Site specific transformation In ‘Whorled Explorations’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi 2014 Log Book Entry Before Storm is a site specific installation that occupies what was once a peculiar domestic space- a […]
Time Interruptions (2009, 2014)
Escapement 27 clocks, high glass aluminium with LED lights, four flat screen monitors, video and audio looped Dimensions variable Arc of the day (2014) 13 clocks, high glass aluminium with LED lights, gold vinyl Frieze […]
Will you, Beloved Stranger
Performance, Architecture, Textual Collation, 2013 Architectural collaborators: Efrat-Kowalsky Architects Video of performance: 43 minutes Video tech – Yoav Bezaleli & Oscar Abush Readers: Amit Gour and Ruba Amira Salameh Exhibited at ‘Host & Guest’ curated […]
The Dislocation of Degree Zero
Video loop Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2013) In the present world, ever since the adoption of Greenwich Mean Time, the system of longitudes beginning and ending at an arbitrarily decided degree zero […]
The House Of Everything And Nothing
Text, Illumination and Surface Modification of an Abandoned House 24 Jor Bagh, Delhi (2013) The House of Everything and Nothing is an exploration of the infinity of worlds that Raqs Media Collective inhabit. In 2013, […]
The Fruits of Labour
Fruits of Labour (2012) 100 orange fruit trees, industrial sizes fans, framed copies of the Faridabad Majdoor Samachar | Public Art Project at REAKT: Olhares e Processos, Guimaraes Approaching the sense of exhaustion and hopelessness […]
Reverse Engineering the Euphoria Machine
Installation with furniture, 2 videos, objects, drawings, photographs Mori Museum, Tokyo (2008-09); National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2009); Essl Museum, Vienna (2009); Gallery Nature Morte, Berlin (2012) Euphoria Machine is the name we give to […]