An Interview
The Collective Eye interviews Raqs Media Collective and delves deep into their early days, influences, and experiences. They discuss a wide range of works from ‘Coronation Park’ in 2015 to the public commission, ‘All, Human’ in 2023.
The word ‘para’ gestures to a relationship to that which a thing stands beside, or at a tangent to. In our ‘para-practices’ are writings that we do, and conversations that we enter into, alongside. It could be the making of a Sourcebook for staging public discursive moments for a plural knowledge world, or a Curation, a processual duration with many to re-apprehend the world, or a Studio with students to reimagine the power of margins or thresholds.
The Collective Eye interviews Raqs Media Collective and delves deep into their early days, influences, and experiences. They discuss a wide range of works from ‘Coronation Park’ in 2015 to the public commission, ‘All, Human’ in 2023.
e-flux journal #27, September 2011, Raqs Media Collective
Response by Raqs
Monuments Must Fall Issue #24, British Art Studies (Conversation Piece convened by Edwin Coomasaru)
Practising Collectivity:
What is possible and
not yet forbidden?
Published in CURARE – Curatorial Studies by Ute Müller-Tischler and Solvej Helweg Ovesen
The CURARE Reader is published as part of the CAMPI Curating and Management in Public Institutions program of the District Office for Mitte in Berlin, Office for Further Education and Culture, The Department of Art, Culture and History
Essay as a part of Half-Life, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Art Institute of Chicago within the context of its exhibition “Static Range” by Himali Singh Soin
An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective, in the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Text by Raqs, published in Curatography, Issue 2, Curators Living Rooms, Curating Asia International, 2021
Text by Raqs, published in the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 30 No. 61-62 (2021): The Changing Ontology of the Image
Text by Raqs, published in The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Afterglow:
Yokohama Triennale
2020
Exhibition Catalogue
Text by Raqs, published in Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm, editors Cameron Cartiere + Leon Tan, 2021
Text by Raqs, published by the Goethe Institut, 2020
Text by Raqs
Text by Raqs, for Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices: A Shared Vocabulary, 2021
21 Personae is an extension of the 51 Personae project curated by Raqs Media Collective for the 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016–17). In Barcelona, the project coincides with the In the Open or in Stealth 2018 – 17 March 2019), curated for MACBA by Raqs Media Collective and coordinated by Hiuwai Chu
Text by Natasha Eaton, on Raqs’s work. Published in Third Text online Forum: Decolonial Imaginaire
Protest as Polyphony: An interview with Raqs Media Collective
Interview with Raqs by Melissa Karmen Lee, published in ASAP/Journal vol. 3.2, 2018
Text by Raqs, “On the aestheticization of Politics”
Technologies of Life in the Contemporary (14th – 16th December, 2017), Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi; Conference Conveners: Ravi Sundaram, Ravi Vasudevan (Sarai-CSDS) + Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta); Conference Coordinators: Farah Batool (Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan), Satakshi Sinha (Sarai-CSDS)
51 Personae expands the possibilities of the 11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counterarguments, and Stories curated by Raqs Media Collective, as a series of gatherings that took place in different parts of Shanghai between 12 November 2016 and 12 March 2017.
We are here but is it now? (The submarine horizons of contemporaneity)
Text by Raqs, published as a monograph for “The Contemporary Condition” series, series editors Geoff Cox + Jacob Lund, 2017
Arguments, Counter- arguments, and Stories, 11th Shanghai Biennale
Edited by Power Station of Art and Raqs Media Collective + Shveta Sarda
Published by China Academy of Art Press (2016)
Interview with Maya Kóvskaya
Text by Raqs, published under “Superhumanity” for the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial
Edited by Shveta Sarda, Published by the National Gallery of Modern Art in conjunction with the solo exhibition of Raqs Media Collective, “Asamayavali/ Untimely Calendar”, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2014).
Draft for an Operating Manual, Score for Choreography, Plan for an Exhibition
Catalogue
Text by Raqs. Published in Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn. Editors Jill H. Casid + Aruna D’ Souza. Clark Studies in the Visual Arts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown & Yale University Press, 2014
Workbook by Raqs Media Collective with Kaushik Bhowmik, a digital publishing serious (2013)
Presented by Shveta Sarda
This book is an appreciation of the listening, walking, reading, interviewing, collecting, questioning, mapping, recording, drawing, image-making and writing done by the hundreds of Independent Fellows associated with Sarai over the last decade. The works by the Fellows have been publicly archived through postings in the Sarai Reader-list and in the Sarai archive (in-house at Sarai-CSDS). P.T.O. is an edited, highlighted and resequenced version of these works, to bring alive the various dimensions and modalities of thinking and making. It is not an exhaustive summary of the diverse work done by the Fellows. (Shveta, Delhi, 2012)
Text by Cuauhtémoc Medina, eflux journal #38
Text by Raqs, written to accompany Raqs’ contribution to the Momentum Nordic Biennale of 2011
Text by Raqs
Text by Raqs
Raqs Media Collective:
Casebook
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Surjection by Raqs Media Collective of New Delhi, held at the Art Gallery of York University from 22 September through 4 December, 2011, and curated by Philip Monk.
Published in Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics, editors: Jos de Mul + Renée van de Vali, 2011
Text by Raqs, in Manifesta Journal #8, 2009
Text by Raqs
Text by Raqs, published in “Manifesta 7 COMPANION”, one of three publications accompanying Manifesta 7, co-curated by Raqs Media Collective
Publisher: Sternberg Press (2010)
Text by Raqs
Text by Raqs
Published in in Art School : Propositions for the Twentieth Century, Edited by Steven Madoff. MIT Press, Boston, 2009
Text by Kaushik Bhaumik, on Raqs Media Collective’s video diptych “The Capital of Accumulation”, published in ‘Art India’, Vol XV, Issue III, Quarter III, 2010
Text by Raqs, published in e-flux journal #0 November 2008
Fact, Facticity and the Imagination
Text by Raqs
Aswatthama – an Entry for the Dictionary of War at Graz, October 2006
Text by Raqs
Published in System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
Text by Raqs
Published in The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe, 2006
Text by Raqs, published in SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Catalogue accompanying the exhibition
Dreams and Disguises, As Usual.
Text by Raqs. Published in ‘Impostor in the Waiting Room’, the publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2004
Text by Raqs
Published in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001