Practice is the daily ‘work’ (as verb) of art. It represents the sum of all the moves – practical, conceptual, affective, cognitive, philosophical, analytical and aesthetic – that occupies/de-occupies the state of our triangulation at any given point of time. Being contingent, this practice is a shape-shifting thing, prone to surprise itself as much it surprises others. Like a mycelial inhabitation, indeterminate and unbounded, it expands.

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Betaal / बे-ताल / Arrhythmic

Raqs Web 18 October

3 minutes

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

Raqs Web 14 September

2 minutes

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 […]

Time Devices (2011- 18)

Raqs Web 13 December

4 minutes

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 […]

Workers and Robots Enter A Factory Canteen

Raqs Web 20 March

1 minute

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 […]

Communard Biscuits

Raqs Media Collective 5 April

1 minute

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, […]

Perhaps

Raqs Web 26 December

2 minutes

Site specific Installation Lincoln Brayford Pool, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK (2016)

Homo Speculos

Raqs Web 5 December

2 minutes

Homo Speculos 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 x 38 […]

Activo y Pasivo | Assets and Debts

Raqs Web 2 March

1 minute

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, […]

Autodidact’s Transport

Raqs Web 21 February

6 minutes

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 […]

Forthcoming titles

Raqs Media Collective 31 March

1 minute

Forthcoming TitlesBooks, Jacket Cover Designs, 2012 Three unwritten books, each marking a whimsical relationship to specific influential texts (by Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Illyich Lenin and Antonio Gramsci) in the canon of Marxism, find their place […]

Reverse Engineering the Euphoria Machine

Raqs Media Collective 26 March

5 minutes

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 […]

Revoltage

Raqs Media Collective 18 December

2 minutes

Revoltage Text, lightbulbs, fixtures, acrylic, wire, synchroniser Exhibition History: ‘The Capital of Accumulation’, Project 88, Mumbai (2010); ‘Reading Light’, Festival d’Automne, Espace Oscar Niemeyer, Paris (2011); Art Unlimited Basel (2012); ‘Critical Mass’, Tel Aviv Museum […]

We the Fuel

Raqs Web 9 December

1 minute

We the Fuel | 2011 9 framed photographs, tape residue (210 x 180 cm) A collage made with treated ﬁlm posters and dental X-rays Premonition, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (2011); Helsinki Photography Biennale, Finland (2014)

DÉJÀ VU AND DISTANCE & HAVE YOU FACTORED IN?

Raqs Media Collective 25 October

0 min

Marks

Raqs Media Collective 18 September

1 minute

Marks | 2011 Acrylic, MDF, red LEDs, electrical wires, gold mylar sheet Headquarters of French Communist Party, 2, Place du Colonel Fabien, Paris (2011); Madrid (2014); Mexico (2015); K21, Dusseldorf, Germany (2018):

36 Planes of Emotion & One Meter of Truth (Emotion)

Raqs Media Collective 18 May

3 minutes

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 […]

When the Scales Fall from your Eyes

Raqs Media Collective 18 March

3 minutes

Anonymous Steel Worker

Raqs Media Collective 16 September

1 minute

Sightings & Four Figures

Raqs Web 23 May

1 minute

Sightings/ 2007 Altered photographs printed on vinyl. Series of 4, each 130 x 275 cm San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (2007); 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007). Sightings is a photographic experiment with decaying architecture that suggests […]

Just Passed Harmony

Raqs Web 23 May

1 minute

Just Passed Harmony Inkjet on galvanized aluminum. 18 x 182 cm Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08) A long strip of galvanized steel bears the emboss of the high road, just past the town called harmony. On […]

The Mathematics of Anacoustic Reason

Raqs Media Collective 9 December

2 minutes

The Mathematics Of Anacoustic Reason Inkjet print, 182 x 120 cm Print containing images, text and mathematical symbols arranged in the form of an equation. “Out of the Equation: Roads to Reality” (a project curated […]

With Respect to Residue

Raqs Web 10 November

1 minute

Sets of 4 Printed (Paper) Table Mats with gold pigment with maps and images | Installation with lightbox table, chair, ashtray, printed paper placemats Note: The work was first shown at the Liverpool Biennale, 2004 as […]

The K.D.Vyas Correspondence

Raqs Media Collective 14 August

1 minute

The Kd Vyas Correspondence, Vol.1 Installation with 18 video screens and DVD players, steel frame structure audio Museum of Communication, Frankfurt (2006); Shooting Back, Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2007); Horn Please, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern […]

On the question of standards while considering the freedom of speech, after Duchamp

Raqs Web 18 May

1 minute

On the question of standards while considering the freedom of speech, after Duchamp Printed postcard 10 x 15 cm Utopia Station, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2006) A piece in response to the […]

Ectropy Index

Raqs Web 14 November

3 minutes

2005/ HTML The word “ectropy” means a general increase in organisation. It appears to have been developed in 196 by Willard V. Quine, a philosopher and mathematician, in the course of a series of discussions […]

Erosion by Whispers

Raqs Web 14 November

1 minute

2005/ 2 lightboxes, galvanized wire, printed broadsheets, 66 x 76 x 13 cm | Exhibited at Ephemeral cities: A Project Space, Deptford X, London (2005)

OPUS (Open Platform for Unlimited Signification)

Raqs Web 3 November

5 minutes

Software | 2022 OPUS (Open Platform for Unlimited Signification) was an online space for people, machines, and codes to play and work together – to share, create and transform images, sounds, videos and texts. Opus was […]

Global Health Village Manual

Raqs Media Collective 16 September

1 minute