The word ‘para’ suggests a relationship to something that stands beside or runs tangential to another. Our ‘para-practices’ include writings and conversations that unfold in proximity—alongside other works, ideas, and processes. These may take the form of a ‘Sourcebook’ that helps stage public, discursive moments for a world with plural knowledge; a ‘Curation,’ the process of which unfolds with many, over time, to reapprehend the world; or a ‘Studio’ with students to reimagine the generative potential of margins and thresholds.
Black Waters, a film-essay which began in 1993, returns into view as a new installation; holding the distance between 1993 and the present, allowing the unfinished film, its fragments and the archive that formed around it to meet again.
The Time is Never Ripe unfolds across two floors of the seventeenth-century building, the Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO) in Leh, bringing our practice into conversation with the changing conditions of life in Ladakh.
As Tranquil as Can Be lingers between the intervals of noise and speech. It is a place to rest, share, linger, and gather under a canopy, thinking through tranquility and what stirs or stays still as and when life begins and ends.
The Laughter of Tears Solo ExhibitionKunstverein Braunschweig, Germany In Laughter of Tears draws us into a field of affect that pulses between joy and grief, celebration and dissent. The exhibition brings attention to moments of transmission, those flickers of connection that occur when people laugh, weep, or encounter wonder together. These are states that move before, […]
Video, sculpture, pottery and conversation Deep Breath Shown at: Pamphilos, Athens (2019) FilmDuration, 25′ Sometimes, the finding of an antidote to the most basic and lethal form of amnesia, ‘the forgetting of air’, may require the undertaking of a deep dive. The site of descent is what it’s really all about, isn’t it? Where and […]
Everything Else is Ordinary delves into the elusive, multifaceted nature of time and how it shapes our existence. Raqs explores the concept of time not as a singular, linear force but as a series of intersecting moments that reflect our complex relationships with labor, memory, and each other. The exhibition interweaves various elements of daily life with philosophical reflections.
Not Yet At Ease premiered at FirstSite, Colchester as part of the 1914-18 Now Commissions: a series of new artistic works commemorating a century of the First World War.
With Provisions for Everybody, Raqs offers a weave of thoughts found on the the road; as well as images, calculations, texts, textures and textiles which accompany and aid the the task of re-imagining the relation between potential and plenitude.
Solo ExhibitionTate Exchange (December 14-20, 2016) A thicket is a concentration of living matter. In forests, gardens, and fields, thickets rise where different plant species find it possible to thrive together in a wild celebration of life itself. Conversations too can have thickets; points of intersection of lines of force. Through an interactive, participatory installation, […]
Project 88 (Mumbai) 2018 “everything is burning” Raqs Media Collective returns to Project 88, Mumbai with “Provisions”, an exhibition that brings together the premiere in India of an ambitious recent video travelogue, ‘Provisions for Everybody’ (2018), as well as a new body of work — photo/text/objects that embody an agile and playful skepticism towards the […]
Twilight Language signals a lighthouse semaphore for all that is lost and found between errant longitudes, infected histories and contagious futures. This is the time when everything changes; memorials defect, communards bake biscuits, moths mutate, divers rise, clocks speak in tongues. Animals, machines, and humans recover grounds of equality and conversation. Words turn incandescent, enigma shadows everything, twilight finds its language.
PresentomorrowExhibited at Mondialité (2017) Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels Installation with Video, still Images and Animated Text Presentomorrow brings together echoes from Raqs’ earlier installations and engages with the writings of Édouard Glissant. The work reflects on the layered nature of language and thought; how the concepts we […]
Luminous WillSolo ExhibitionSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015) Does history repeat itself, or simply rehearse its moves in anticipation? Can we read chronicles in terms of deferrals and déjà-vu rather than in terms of climaxes and closures? Luminous Will refers to an eponymous work by Raqs Media Collective, where the hands of […]
It’s Possible Because It’s Possible Shown at: Centro de Arte Dos de Mayos (CA2M), Madrid (2014); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico (2015); Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires (2015) It’s Possible Because It’s Possible is the fruit of a collaboration between Museo Universitario Art Contemporaneo (MUAC), the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), and the Fundacion […]
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