Yours, Sincerely (2022)
Published 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, 2022
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.
Hungry for Time
An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective
Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2021-2022)
The Laughter of Tears
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, […]
Salt
Raqs works with salt, or that refers to salt, as material or concept. The inquiry started from “Salt”, a photo-essay published in The Drama Review, Volume 65 Issue 4, 2021. Salt, The Drama Review, Volume 65 Issue 4, 2021 (download) A Planet Turns on its Axis Without Permission Single screen, Video, 18:04 minutes “Provisions for Everybody” at […]
Hungry for Time
An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective, in the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2021
salt
Published in ‘The Drama Review’, Volume 65 Issue 4, 2021
Freeing the Weight of the Habitual
This essay examines how established practices and ingrained habits can both confine and shape creative and curatorial processes. It poses the question, “What is the mechanism — and how do we seek it — of ‘freeing’ the weights of habitual narrative entrapments?” prompting questions related to the forms and premises of the “system ofgovernance” that […]
Thickets
“Being anywhere inside a thicket means having to deal with a tango between tenses, between the consequences of what yesterday has done, and what tomorrow will bring, and what the present proposes, all at the same time.” Moving between the sit-ins at Shaheen Bagh, the farmers’ protests, and pandemic lockdowns, Raqs invokes the thicket as […]
The Event-Shaped Hole and the Photographic Image
“The image making and processing capacity happen continuously, just as respiration, or digestion does, The new image machines breathe, digest, dream and excrete pictures. they don’t just ‘take’ them.” This essay introduces Raqs’ concept of the “event-shaped hole,” suggesting that photographs can act as pieces of evidence, even when the events themselves are absent from […]
Making Bets While Knowing Nothing
Text by Raqs, published in ‘The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary’, 2021
Sharing our Sources
The first publication accompanying Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020, curated by Raqs Media Collective.
On How Not to Accelerate in Reverse Gear
“Every museum is a time machine with multiple pedals for acceleration, all movingonly in reverse gear. Even a museum that addresses the contemporary immediatelytransforms the present into a packaged relic, and then you exit through the gift shop,again. This means that the museum of the future is somewhat of an oxymoron. Atime machine that moves […]
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