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.
Presentation at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck. Excerpts published as ‘The First Information Report : On the Documentary Attitude in Contemporary Art Practice’ by Raqs Media Collective in ‘The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art’, Edited by Charles Merewether. Published by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006 & in Texte Zur Kunst, September 2003 (edited by Karin Gludovatz and […]
Text by Raqs, Published in System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Edited by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Moahaiemen, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
Text by Jeebesh Bagchi, Published in ‘The Journal of Moving Image, Jadavpur University, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘RHIZOME DIGEST: September 15, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe’, Edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. Published by Roomade and The MIT Press, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art,’ catalogue accompanying the exhibition
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Impostor in the Waiting Room’, the publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2004
Text by Raqs, Published in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Double Take: Looking at Documentary’, 2000
