Fact, Facticity and the Imagination
Text by Raqs
The word ‘para’ gestures to a relationship to that which a thing stands beside, or at a tangent to. In our ‘para-practices’ are writings that we do, and conversations that we enter into, alongside. It could be the making of a Sourcebook for staging public discursive moments for a plural knowledge world, or a Curation, a processual duration with many to re-apprehend the world, or a Studio with students to reimagine the power of margins or thresholds.
TIME BOOK
Time Book, Exhibition Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08) Special thanks to the Rivers of Steel Heritage Area, Homestead, PA. Hanging on the wall across from the entrance are four non-working factory time clocks. The hand of each clock is set to the digits: 1-9-8-6, the year a number of steel mills in the area closed. An […]
Aswatthama – an Entry for the Dictionary of War at Graz, October 2006
Text by RaqsPublished in System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards
Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards Text by Raqs
Digressions from the Memory of a Minor Encounter
Text by RaqsPublished in The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe, 2006
Once again To the distant observer
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
New Maps & Old Territories: A dialogue between Yagnavalkya and Gargi in Cyberia Text by RaqsPublished in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001