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 […]
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 […]
The Laughter of Tears
The Laughter of Tears | 2021 Solo Exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany .. Gallery:
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
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 […]
“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
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 […]
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
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
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 […]
Art as place: A proposition
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 cultural […]
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
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 […]
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
The Untold Intimacy of Digits
The Untold Intimacy of Digits | 2011 Looped video projection. 00:47 In every sum figured by power, a remainder haunts the calculation. Not everything adds up. A people are never equal to a listing of […]
DÉJÀ VU AND DISTANCE & HAVE YOU FACTORED IN?
DÉJÀ VU AND DISTANCE & HAVE YOU FACTORED IN? | 2011 Déjà vu and Distance – Installation with 9 acrylic frames, LED lights Have You Factored In? – Video loop The picture is a mirage […]
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)
36 Planes of Emotions | 2011 Laser engraved acrylic glass, furniture, lighting (180 x 150 x 60 cm) Surjection, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2011); Raqs Media Collective, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2012) Graphic design: Amitabh […]
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
Sarai Reader 08: Fear
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. Modernity’s great promise – the freedom from fear, now lies in ruins. One can argue that this vision was always compromised – modernity […]
Sarai Reader 07: At Frontiers
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive Frontiers considers limits, edges, borders and margins of all kinds as the sites for declarations, occasions for conversation, arguments, debates, recounting and reflection. […]
Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. If there were ever to be a ‘weather report’ for our times, an audit of the climate in which we have grown accustomed […]
Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. “This year, the Reader looks at ‘Acts’ – at instruments of legislation, at things within and outside the law, and at ‘acts’ – […]
Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/ Media
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive “The book itself has its genesis in the Crisis/Media Workshop that was jointly organized in Delhi by Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and the Waag Society, […]
Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies sets out to ratchet our engagement with the contemporary moment a notch higher, in directions that are sober, […]
Sarai Reader 02: The Cities Of Everyday Life
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. This year’s Sarai Reader brings together a range of critical thinking on urban life and the contemporary, marked by spreading media cultures, new […]
Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. A Sarai is an enclosed space in a city, or, beside a highway, where travellers and caravans can find shelter, sustenance and companionship; […]
Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities
Text by Raqs, in Manifesta Journal #8, 2009
Now and Elsewhere
e-flux journal #12 2010
Text by Raqs
The Rest of Now
Text by Raqs, published in “Manifesta 7 COMPANION”, one of three publications accompanying Manifesta 7, co-curated by Raqs Media Collective
Sarai Reader 09: Projections / The Exhibition
The entire book can be accessed and downloaded from the Sarai Archive. A projection always involves an incandescent transference, some crossing of a void or darkness to effect luminous landings on a distant surface. Without […]
EMOTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF
Text by Raqs
How to be an artist by night
Text by Raqs
Published in in Art School : Propositions for the Twentieth Century, Edited by Steven Madoff. MIT Press, Boston, 2009
The Flights of the Pink Flamingo or Historiae Sub-Rosae of Capital and the Twentieth Century
Text by Kaushik Bhaumik, on Raqs Media Collective’s video diptych “The Capital of Accumulation”, published in ‘Art India’, Vol XV, Issue III, Quarter III, 2010
STAMMER, MUMBLE, SWEAT, SCRAWL, AND TIC
Text by Raqs, published in e-flux journal #0 November 2008