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
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.
Freeing the weight of the habitual
Text by Raqs, published in Curatography, Issue 2, Curators Living Rooms, Curating Asia International, 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
Text by Raqs, published in The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary
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
Text by Raqs, for Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices: A Shared Vocabulary, 2021
“With Respect to Residue”. Raqs Media Collective, Decolonial Museum as UFO
Text by Natasha Eaton, on Raqs’s work. Published in Third Text online Forum: Decolonial Imaginaire
Protest as Polyphony: An interview with Raqs Media Collective
Interview with Raqs by Melissa Karmen Lee, published in ASAP/Journal vol. 3.2, 2018
To Ask when Empty, To pour when Full
Text by Raqs, “On the aestheticization of Politics”
We are here but is it now? (The submarine horizons of contemporaneity)
Text by Raqs, published as a monograph for “The Contemporary Condition” series, series editors Geoff Cox + Jacob Lund, 2017
Propositioning the World: Raqs Media Collective and the Shanghai Biennale
Interview with Maya Kóvskaya
As if by design
Text by Raqs, published under “Superhumanity” for the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial
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
A history of infinity and some fresh catastrophes: On Raqs Media Collective’s The Capital of Accumulation
Text by Cuauhtémoc Medina, eflux journal #38
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 (TO BE OPENED IN 2061) Aluminum box with contents (39 x 29 x 32 cm) 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway (2011)
A Frame of Mind: Researching Documentaries
Text by Raqs
Yaksha Prashna: The Riverbank Episode
Text by Raqs
Within the Flux of the Contemporary. Parul Dave Mukherjee in conversation with Raqs Media Collective
Published in Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics, editors: Jos de Mul + Renée van de Vali, 2011
Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities
Text by Raqs, in Manifesta Journal #8, 2009
Now and Elsewhere
e-flux journal #12 2010
Text by Raqs
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
EMOTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF
Text by Raqs
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 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
Text by Raqs
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, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
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, 2006
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
Text by Raqs
Published in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001