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.
Published as a part of ‘Intensification,’ a collaboration between e-flux and the Lisbon Architecture Triennial within the context of its seventh edition, “How heavy is a city?,” curated by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency), 2025.
Published in – ‘Thirst: In Search of Freshwater’, edited by Ellen Johl, published by The Wellcome Collection, 2025, in accompaniment to ‘Thirst : In Search of Freshwater’ curated by Janice Li, at the Wellcome Collection, London. Pages 89 – 93
Published in ‘Matter Mattering Matters – A Scienticity Reader‘, Edited by Edited by Kabelo Malatsie and Lantian Xie, 2025
Text by Raqs, published in ‘A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework’ (2024), edited by Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones.
e-flux journal #27, September 2011, Raqs Media Collective
Published in, ‘Monuments Must Fall Issue #24’, British Art Studies (Conversation Piece convened by Edwin Coomasaru)
This interview reflects on the conditions, thresholds, and frictions that shape collective work—within and beyond institutions, publics, and time.
Published 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, 2022
Published in ‘The Drama Review’, Volume 65 Issue 4, 2021
This essay examines how established practices and ingrained habits can both confine and shape creative and curatorial processes.
Moving between the sit-ins at Shaheen Bagh, the farmers’ protests, and pandemic lockdowns, through this essay, Raqs invokes the thicket as a metaphor for entangled solidarities and overlapping temporalities.
This essay introduces Raqs’ concept of the “event-shaped hole,” suggesting that photographs can act as pieces of evidence, even when the events themselves are absent from direct view.
Text by Raqs, published in ‘The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary’, 2021
“Every museum is a time machine with multiple pedals for acceleration, all movingonly in reverse gear. Even a museum that addresses the contemporary immediatelytransforms the present into a packaged relic, and then you exit through the gift shop,again. This means that the museum of the future is somewhat of an oxymoron. Atime machine that moves […]
“This paradox of memory is a negotiation between having to remember, the obligation tomourn, the uncertainty of moments and conditions of its activation, the inability to recall, andthe slow grinding requirement to forget and move on.“ This essay reflects on the complex relationship between memory, war, and public art. Drawing upon historical events and personal […]
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