How to be an artist by night
Text by Raqs, Published in in Art School : Propositions for the Twentieth Century, Edited by Steven Madoff. MIT Press, Boston, 2009
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.
The Flights of the Pink Flamingo or Historiae Sub-Rosae of Capital and the Twentieth Century
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
Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic
Text by Raqs, Published in e-flux journal #0, November, 2008
Fact, Facticity and the Imagination
Presentation at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck. Excerpts published as ‘The First Information Report : On the Documentary Attitude in Contemporary Art Practice’ by Raqs Media Collective in ‘The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art’, Edited by Charles Merewether. Published by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006 & in Texte Zur Kunst, September 2003 (edited by Karin Gludovatz and […]
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, Edited by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Moahaiemen, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
Acceleration and Conflicts: Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After
Text by Jeebesh Bagchi, Published in ‘The Journal of Moving Image, Jadavpur University, 2006
Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘RHIZOME DIGEST: September 15, 2006
Digressions from the Memory of a Minor Encounter
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe’, Edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. Published by Roomade and The MIT Press, 2006
Once Again, to the Distant Observer
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art,’ catalogue accompanying the exhibition
The Imposter in the Waiting Room
The Imposter in the Waiting RoomShown at: Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (2004) | National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) (2014) Installation with video, photography, performance, text, sound and print The Impostor in the Waiting Room is a consideration on what happens when modernity encounters its shadow. As a group of practitioners who navigate routes […]
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
The History & Practice of Cinematography in India
The History & Practice of Cinematography in India is a collection of transcripts of interviews with veteran and working cameramen, texts, archival photographs, production stills, bibliography, a timeline and other resources on the history of cinematographic practice in India.
New Maps & Old Territories: A dialogue between Yagnavalkya and Gargi in Cyberia
Text by Raqs, Published in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001
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