Presentation at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck. Excerpts published as ‘The First Information Report : On the Documentary Attitude in Contemporary Art Practice’ by Raqs Media Collective in ‘The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art’, Edited by Charles Merewether. Published by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006 & in Texte Zur Kunst, September 2003 (edited by Karin Gludovatz and […]
Every factory has a time book. The time book is an index of the value of a worker’s time. It records hours, minutes and money, and acts as the memory machine of a factory.
Raqs imagined Gainda as a fiberglass life-size sculpture of Albrecht Dürer’s etching transformed into a carousel carriage.
Text by Raqs, Published in System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Edited by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Moahaiemen, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
The Mathematics of Anacoustic Reason is an aphoristic image-text work in response to an invitation to respond to the concept: Out of the Equation: Roads to Reality. The project responds to this invitation by expressing an equation written primarily in the formal language of mathematics and by elaborating on this expression with images and a brief accompanying text.
The KD Vyas Correspondence Vol. 1 is an installation that embodies an epistolary enigma. The basis of this work are a set of eighteen ‘letters’ between Raqs and a person or entity who is identified as K.D. Vyas, sometime redactor of the Mahabharata.
Text by Jeebesh Bagchi, Published in ‘The Journal of Moving Image, Jadavpur University, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘RHIZOME DIGEST: September 15, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe’, Edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. Published by Roomade and The MIT Press, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art,’ catalogue accompanying the exhibition
A Measure of Anacoustic Reason | 2005Installation with 1 projection, 4 screens, 4 dialogues, 4 lecterns, 4 benches with embedded speakers, lightbox | Exhibited at India Contemporary, Venice Biennale (2005), Thermocline of Art, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (2007), There has been a change of plan, Nature Morte, New Delhi (2006) A Measure of […]
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Impostor in the Waiting Room’, the publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2004
5 Pieces of Evidence reflects on missing persons, urban myths, transitoriness, maps, and global networks
Text by Raqs, Published in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001
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