Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘RHIZOME DIGEST: September 15, 2006
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.
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’, Edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. Published by Roomade and The MIT Press, 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
A Frame of Mind: Researching Documentaries
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Double Take: Looking at Documentary’, 2000