‘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 Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale
An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale is a looped video projection of an archived photographic image in which a room full of surveyors is transformed through a series of subtle alterations
36 Planes of Emotion & One Meter of Truth (Emotion)
36 Planes of Emotions extends the palette of emotions to include states of collective potential.
Strikes At Time
‘Strikes at Time’ is a lucid dream. It takes readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night to take back the night.
Misadventures of A Phantom Limb
In Misadventures of A Phantom Limb Raqs gives form to this spectre as a shadowy, liquid trace of an arm
The Librarian’s Lucid Dream
The Librarian’s Lucid Dream is a wallpaper carnival of impossible books made up of the index card entries for an imaginary library
Impossibly Rare, Infinitely Valuable, Eternally Free
To survive on love and fresh air is to thrive on next to nothing. Accordingly, this image bottles the two things that are precious but impossible to sell—love and fresh air.
The Perpetual Recall of the Penultimate Afternoon
The Perpetual Recall of the Penultimate Afternoon constructs an itinerary in the footsteps of Rosa Luxemberg’s last days in Berlin
Revolutionary Forces (The Three Tasters)
Three volunteers tell three stories. The surface underneath them is in a state of permanent revolution.
The Communist Latento
The Communist Latento is an image/text series that features photographs of found minimalist hand-drawn signage on transparent surfaces (mainly arrows and direction markers) annotated by a set of terse statements by Raqs.
Time is Money
Speculating on the concept of time, Time is Money intertwines financial and political matters related to capitalism with ontological issues related to ephemerality and permanence
Surface Tension Studies
Surface Tension Studies is a suite of photographs which considers making choices between unfathomable depth and a distant horizon, encountering the strong pull of submerged currents, the attractions of beaching on unnamed islands, and the modest comfort of anchorage
The Knots that Bind are the Knots that Fray
In early April 2009 the last of the distinctive Titan cranes from the Tyneside Swan Hunter shipyard in northern England were loaded up onto a heavy load vessel and sailed out of the River Tyne.Raqs treats found footage of the last voyage of the ship-building cranes down the Tyne river (shot by an engineer and amateur shipyard enthusiast) to create a world of passages, transitions and departures.
phantoroman: Skirmish
Skirmish is a brief, unhappy, love story with pictures and text, another of Raqs’ forays into the photo-roman form
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