‘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.

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.

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.