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.
Rhode Island School of Design invited Raqs Media Collective to serve as Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar Fellows in RISD’s Painting Department. In response, Raqs designed a thirty-day open studio in the RISD Museum centered on marginalia.
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 The starting point for Seen at Secundrabagh is a photograph taken in 1857 […]
