‘Infra’ often means ‘below’ a threshold. Here, we engage in conversation or initiate the process, but the authorial impulse disperses and may not coalesce into a single entity. Our practice folds into other practices, developing a stream that converses while moving with its own momentum. The associative density these practices acquire over time remains unscripted.
A cursory glance at the ‘Sarai Readers’ (01 to 09), produced over ten years, shows how they attract authors and artists from across the globe—inner cities, insulated laboratories, hospital intensive care units, and the raging fields of protest. This accumulated layer of voices propels the world around us.
Somewhere between in the next move
To have a conversation only with questions is like playing a game(chess), like a player is looking for a realm
Listening: Active Presence of Aura of the Ordinary
Listening: Active Presence of Aura of the Ordinary Suraj, Shamsher and Neelofar were part of the Cybermohalla Ensemble (2001-13), and co-authrored innumerable books, broadsheets, and art works with the Ensemble. Notable among them are Trickster City: Writings from the Belly of the Metropolis (Penguin-India, 2010, English translation of Bahurupiya Shehr, Rajkamal Prakashan, 2007), and Cybermohalla […]
Theory Opera
The Theory Opera aims to explore the sensuality of thoughts. These are live scenarios within the exhibition space at intersections of works, or within works, and outside PSA in Shanghai
Art as place: A proposition
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 infrastructures.
Sarai Reader 09: art as a place / The Exhibition
Work 10am-5pm Over a Week, in the Space || Call People for Lunch Discussions if You Want || Develop a Critical Lexicon and Vocabulary for Contemporary Art || Involve More People || Work by Yourself || Work Together With Others || Invite || Perform || Initiate || Create Punctuations || Pair || Make a Set […]
Sarai Reader 09: Projections
The Sarai Reader 09: Projections sets its stage on dual platforms: the printed Reader and a parallel exhibition at the Devi Art Foundation—inviting ideas and visuals to journey together, sometimes converging, sometimes diverging. More than a catalogue or companion piece, this book creates a roadmap: illuminating questions, amplifying desires, and sparking new lines of inquiry across […]
CYBERMOHALLA HUB
Cybermohalla Programme began in May 2001 as a dispersed network of labs and studios for experimentation across Delhi, initiated by the Sarai program (CSDS) and Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education. The Cybermohalla Ensemble is a collective of ten writers and practitioners that emerged out of this programme. Over seven years (2001-07), around 500 young […]
Strikes At Time
‘Strikes at Time’ is a lucid dream. It takes readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night to take back the night.
Sarai Reader 08: Fear
Modernity once promised liberation from fear. We live amidst mobile populations, hidden terrors, financial tremors, and subtle uncertainties. From the air we breathe to the financial systems we trust, everything is threaded with disclaimers and doubts. Sarai Reader 08 leans into this pervasive anxiety—tracking how floods, riots, and crises expose our fragile infrastructures and inner lives. […]
Sarai Reader 07: At Frontiers
Sarai Reader 07 argues that borders—political, conceptual, technical—are both passages and barriers. This volume examines how frontiers shape identities, rights, flows, and exclusions. It explores the tension between mobility and control, tracking how technologies of surveillance, documentation, and registration dictate who can pass and who remains invisible. It also reflects on the emotional weight of […]
Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
Sarai Reader 06 takes the fact of a chaotic, turbulent world as a given, and then asks, now what? This Reader places us in the vortex of daily life: tremors, power cuts, agitations rising and fading across streets and airwaves. The preface captures a world where floods, fires, riots, and sudden silences shape an ever-shifting […]
Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts
The Sarai Reader 05 looks at “Acts” as instruments of legislation, at things within and outside the law, and at “acts”- as different ways of “doing” things in society and culture. This issue foregrounds the discourse surrounding piracy, borders, surveillance, claims to authority and entitlement, the language of expertise, the legal regulation of sexual behaviour […]
The Wherehouse Project
Lecture Performance with And Company & Co. Das TAT, Frankfurt (2004)
Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/ Media
The Sarai Reader 04 takes on open questions to map new territories of thought about media practice. It brings in the question of responsive ways of going media that are not captive to “events and issues” but that actually expands communicative potential in society. The book argues for reclaiming critique, an autonomy of decision against […]
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