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.
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 […]
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Work, Work, Work: A Reader on Art and Labour’, Edited by Cecilia Widenheim, Lisa Rosendahl, Michele Masucci, Annika Enqvist and Jonathan Habib Enqvist. IASPIS, Stockholm & Sternberg Press, Berlin & New York, 2012
Text by Cuauhtémoc Medina, eflux journal #38
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Imagine Being Here Now’ , (Catalogue/Reader) The Sixth Momentum Biennale, Mousse Publishing, 2011
Time Capsule, from 2011, is a time travel device which makes it possible for Raqs to claim its contemporaneity with the future
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 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. […]
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 […]
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
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
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
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta Journal #8’, 2010
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 […]
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta 7 INDEX, one of three publications accompanying Manifesta 7, co-curated by Raqs Media Collective, 2010
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