(ANTI-)CAPITALISM: The Imminent Promise and Fear of a Getaway Car
Text by Raqs, published in ‘A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework’ (2024), edited by Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones
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.
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time
e-flux journal #27, September 2011, Raqs Media Collective
History in Hubris and in Drag
Response by Raqs Monuments Must Fall Issue #24, British Art Studies (Conversation Piece convened by Edwin Coomasaru)
Practising Collectivity:
What is possible and
not yet forbidden?
Published in CURARE – Curatorial Studies by Ute Müller-Tischler and Solvej Helweg Ovesen The CURARE Reader is published as part of the CAMPI Curating and Management in Public Institutions program of the District Office for Mitte in Berlin, Office for Further Education and Culture, The Department of Art, Culture and History
Yours, Sincerely (2022)
Essay as a part of Half-Life, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Art Institute of Chicago within the context of its exhibition “Static Range” by Himali Singh Soin
salt
Text and image essay by Raqs, published in The Drama Review, Volume 65 Issue 4, 2021
The weight of the habitual
Text by Raqs, published in Curatography, Issue 2, Curators Living Rooms, Curating Asia International, 2021
Thickets
Text by Raqs, published in “Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice”, 2021
The event-shaped hole and the photographic image
Text by Raqs, published in the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 30 No. 61-62 (2021): The Changing Ontology of the Image
Making bets while knowing nothing
Making bets while knowing nothing Text by Raqs, published in The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary
on how not to accelerate in reverse gear
Text by Raqs
The double act of Flower time
Text by Raqs, published in Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm, editors Cameron Cartiere + Leon Tan, 2021
Ten nonillion particles and five million incidents
Text by Raqs, published by the Goethe Institut, 2020
recensions, without originals
Text by Raqs
Antahshira
Text by Raqs, for Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices: A Shared Vocabulary, 2021
With respect to residue
Text by Natasha Eaton, on Raqs’s work. Published in Third Text online Forum: Decolonial Imaginaire
protest as polyphony
Interview with Raqs by Melissa Karmen Lee, published in ASAP/Journal vol. 3.2, 2018
To ask when empty, to pour when full
To Ask when Empty, To pour when Full Text by Raqs, “On the aestheticization of Politics”
Foreground manoeuvres
Text by Raqs, published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 272–276
We are here but is it now
Text by Raqs, published as a monograph for “The Contemporary Condition” series, series editors Geoff Cox + Jacob Lund, 2017
Memorophilia
Text accompanying the performance titled Memorophilia held at Tate Modern (2016).
Propositioning the world
Interview with Maya Kóvskaya
As if by design
Text by Raqs, published under “Superhumanity” for the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial
A 200 Hour Studio in Providence
Take on Art “Studio” March 2015 Issue 17
An Ephemeris, Corrected for the Longitudes of Tomorrow : Speculations on the Orbit and Motion of Objects and Processes in Contemporary Art, today, and tomorrow.
Text by Raqs. Published in Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn. Editors Jill H. Casid + Aruna D’ Souza. Clark Studies in the Visual Arts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown & Yale University Press, 2014
Extra Time Conversation between Chang Tsong-Zung and Raqs Media Collective
Extra Time Conversation between Chang Tsong-Zung and Raqs Media Collective Published in ‘Extra Time’, editor Chen Yun. Featuring contributions by Raqs Media Collective, Chong Tzung Chang, Huang Chien Hung, Lu Xinghua, Gao Shiming, Mou Sen & Li Zhenhua, 2013
After Hours : Art, Imagination and the Residue of the Working Day
After Hours : Art, Imagination and the Residue of the Working Day Text by Raqs
A history of infinity and some fresh catastrophes
Text by Cuauhtémoc Medina, eflux journal #38
A Letter to amália jyran, who will be fifty-four in 2061 CE
A letter to Amália Jyran, who will be fifty-four in 2061 CE Text by Raqs, written to accompany Raqs’ contribution to the Momentum Nordic Biennale of 2011
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
A Frame of Mind: Researching Documentaries
A Frame of Mind: Researching Documentaries Text by Raqs
Yaksha Prashna: The Riverbank Episode
Yaksha Prashna: The Riverbank Episode Text by Raqs
Within the flux of the contemporary
Published in Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics, editors: Jos de Mul + Renée van de Vali, 2011
Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities
Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities Text by Raqs, in Manifesta Journal #8, 2009
Now and Elsewhere e-flux journal #12 2010
Now and Elsewhere e-flux journal #12 2010 Text by Raqs
The Rest of Now
The Rest of Now Text by Raqs, published in “Manifesta 7 COMPANION”, one of three publications accompanying Manifesta 7, co-curated by Raqs Media Collective
Acceleration and Conflicts Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After
Acceleration and Conflicts Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After Text by Raqs
Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self
EMOTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF Text by Raqs
How to be an artist by night
How to be an artist by night Text by RaqsPublished in in Art School : Propositions for the Twentieth Century, Edited by Steven Madoff. MIT Press, Boston, 2009
The Flights of the Pink Flamingo or Historiae Sub-Rosae of Capital and the Twentieth Century
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
STAMMER, MUMBLE, SWEAT, SCRAWL, AND TIC Text by Raqs, published in e-flux journal #0 November 2008
Fact, Facticity and the Imagination
Text by Raqs
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
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
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