Recensions, Without Originals

This essay uses the concept of “recension”—ongoing revision—to reflect on three decades of Raqs Media Collective’s practice amid economic turmoil, social unrest, and a mounting pandemic. Tracing moments from the creation of Sarai’s public‑sharing infrastructures and early social‑software experiments, it argues that creative and curatorial work is sustained through collective re‑apprehension, infrastructural generosity, and the continual rewriting of contexts.
Text by Raqs, published in Storytellers of Art Histories’, edited by Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel, 2022