Time Capsule from 2011 (TO BE OPENED IN 2061)
Time Capsule, from 2011, is a time travel device which makes it possible for Raqs to claim its contemporaneity with the future
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.
Seen at Secunderabagh
Seen at SecunderabaghShown at: Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Brussels (2011)| Festival d’Automne, Le Centquatre, Paris (2011) | Wiener Festwochen, Vienna Festival (2012) | Chronus Centre, Shanghai (2013) | National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2014) Performative installation with actors, video projection, sets With Zuleikha Chaudhari Seen at Secunderabagh unfolds as a meditation on history, image, and […]
Reading Light
Reading Light Siege du Parti Communiste Francaise, Festival d’Automne, Paris (2011) Reading Light – the work presented by Raqs in Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic building for the French Communist Party at the Place Colonel Fabien – was a set of illuminated signs that use text, typography, light sources and electricity to conjure a renewal of human aspirations. […]
Surjection
How to get from here to there Photographs mounted on acrylic glass, neon, Series of 6, each 64 x 94 x 10 cm Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2011) Seven photographic prints trace the journey of an illuminated vehicle across a liminal landscape. Neon letters, gesturing towards a terse but optimistic instruction, annotate each step of […]
Yaksha Prashna: The Riverbank Episode
Text by Raqs, Published in conjunction with ‘The River Project’, a key project of the Upper Georges River Catchment Urban Sustainability Initiative held from August to October 2010
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
Within the Flux of the Contemporary
Interview with Raqs, by Parul dave Mukherjee, Published in ‘Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics’, Edited by Jos de Mul and Renée van de Vali, 2011
Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta Journal #8’, 2010
Now and Elsewhere
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘What is Contemporary Art?’, Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood & Anton Vidokle. E Flux Journal & Sternberg Press, New York & Berlin, 2010. Also published in ‘The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds’, Edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg & Peter Weibel, ZKM Center for […]
The Rest of Now
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta 7 INDEX, one of three publications accompanying Manifesta 7, co-curated by Raqs Media Collective, 2010
The Things that Happen When Falling in Love
The Things That Happen When Falling in Love brings together suggestions of words, and people on the move to create an image of a world where the fortunes of both love and labour are framed and dismantled by global forces.
Wonderful Uncertainty
Text by Raqs, published in ‘Curating and the Educational Turn’, edited by Paul O’Neill & Nick Wilson, Open Editions, De Appel, 2010
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive
Text by Raqs, Published in Lalit Kala Conetmporary #52 (Journal), Photography as Art and Practice in India’,2012
Escapement
Escapement invokes clockwork, emotions, geography, fantasy and time zones to ask what is contemporaneity – what does it mean to be living in these times, in these quickening hours, these accumulating minutes, these multiplying seconds, here, now?
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