Unruly Iris of Dissent (U.I.D 2), Swamp & Marsh
Raqs return to bodily scans as arguments with surveillance. ‘The Unruly Iris of Dissent,’ magnifies a restless iris to continue its debate with the U.I.D (Unique Identification Database) .
‘Practice’ is the daily ‘work’ (verb) of art. It represents the sum of all moves—practical, conceptual, affective, cognitive, philosophical, analytical, and aesthetic—that occupy or de-occupy the state of our triangulation at any given moment. Contingent by nature, this practice shifts shape, surprising itself as much as it surprises others. Like a mycelial inhabitation—indeterminate and unbounded—it keeps expanding.
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An Infra-vocabulary for Capital
Upright board with an inscribed ‘Infra-Vocabulary’ of a selection from Raqs Media Collective’s synonyms for capital, taken from their work – ‘A Dying Man Sings of That which Felled Him’ (installation with video and inscriptions, 2006) which was subsequently published in their book, ‘Seepage’ (Sternberg Press, 2009)
Nerves
NervesShown at: ‘Not Yet at Ease’, FirstSite, Colchester, United Kingdom (2018) | ‘Spinal’, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019) Mural, Text and Drawings transferred in Vinyl 140 meter long curving wall The bold blue colour that forms the ground of Nerves is inspired by the Hospital Blues uniform worn by convalescing soldiers in British military […]
The Assurance Clock & Toxicare
The clock in the poster is an embodiment of assurance, the opposite of alarm
Workers and Robots Enter A Factory Canteen
An imagined conversation between real, embodied and artificial forms of intelligence, set in a moment of respite on a working day.
To Ask, When Empty
A suite of six uniquely colourful lenticular prints offer a dance of terse imperatives at the intersection of will and necessity
Lost in Search of Time
While retrieving the time gained in searching for all that is lost and found one can admit to a condition that one suspects that one shares with most people in the world today, of being lost, in search of time.
One Meter of Truth (Emotion)
One Meter of Truth (Emotion) (2014)Shown at: National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi (2014) Steel table with wooden top, printed canvas 58”x 58”, 1m steel measure During a rehearsal process for a work being made with theatre artists, Raqs began to seek a language for states of feeling, and the body, that were at a […]
Corrections to the First Draft of History
Corrections to the First Draft of History ‘rewrites’ on newsprint of the world so as to speak of making new sets of meanings for what is considered history in our present times.
A Fortunate Spell of Pleasant Amnesia
The work speaks to how we encounter violence, and how we need not
phantoroman: SHORE LEAVE
A sailor, a prostitute, a city, the search for warmth, and a slice of snatched time; Shore Leave is a short story in words and images about words and the unsaid, about desire and the incalculability of longing
How to get from here to there
Seven photographic prints trace the journey of an illuminated vehicle across a liminal landscape
Proverbs
Proverbs is a series of textual sculptures that express a set of ambiguities about transactions and relationships
36 Planes of Emotions
36 Planes of EmotionsShown at: Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2011) | The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2012) | The Whitworth, Manchester (2017) |K21, Düsseldorf (2018) Laser engraved acrylic glass, furniture, lighting (180 x 150 x 60 cm)Graphic design: Amitabh Kumar + Satyabrata Ra 36 Planes of Emotions extends the palette of emotions to include states of […]
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