Freeing the Weight of the Habitual

This essay examines how established practices and ingrained habits can both confine and shape creative and curatorial processes. It poses the question, “What is the mechanism — and how do we seek it — of ‘freeing’ the weights of habitual narrative entrapments?” prompting questions related to the forms and premises of the “system of
governance” that introduces into a work multiple subjectivities and stories.

Text by Raqs, published in ‘Curatography, Issue 2, Curators Living Rooms, Curating Asia International’, 2021