CEASURAL VARIATIONS I & II
Two short video meditations set in the post-industrial landscape of the steel town of Pittsburgh.
‘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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Sightings & Four Figures
Sightings is a photographic experiment with decaying architecture that suggests cartographic resonances. While, Four Figures works out four ways of making sense of today’s world, mapping a frontier between precarity and possibility.
Just Passed Harmony
A long strip of galvanized steel bears the emboss of the high road, just past the town called harmony. On the way, possibly to Industry.
1986
Four standard issue wall clocks, with their hands arrested at the digits 1, 9, 8, and 6. Together, they point to 1986
However Incongruous
Raqs imagined Gainda as a fiberglass life-size sculpture of Albrecht Dürer’s etching transformed into a carousel carriage.
The Mathematics of Anacoustic Reason
The Mathematics of Anacoustic Reason is an aphoristic image-text work in response to an invitation to respond to the concept: Out of the Equation: Roads to Reality. The project responds to this invitation by expressing an equation written primarily in the formal language of mathematics and by elaborating on this expression with images and a brief accompanying text.
With Respect to Residue
With respect to residue is a project deigned to provoke reflection about the things, states of being, and histories that end up abandoned and waste, as the detritus of the routine processes that constitute and maintain the world.
The K.D.Vyas Correspondence
The KD Vyas Correspondence Vol. 1 is an installation that embodies an epistolary enigma. The basis of this work are a set of eighteen ‘letters’ between Raqs and a person or entity who is identified as K.D. Vyas, sometime redactor of the Mahabharata.
Contribution For “2006 Peace Tower”
A piece in response to the invitation from Mark di Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija to contribute to the ‘Peace Tower’ for the Whitney Biennial 2006
There Has Been A Change Of Plan
There has been a change of plan features enigmatic images of aircraft abandoned in a dessert blossoming after a rain shower
A Dying Man Sings Of That Which Felled Him
A Dying Man Sings Of That Which Felled Him presents its viewer with a silent song of a thousand words, a bier of iron rods for the repose of a fallen man, a setting sun, and an empty chair awaiting a visitor
On the question of standards while considering the freedom of speech, after Duchamp
A piece in response to the invitation from Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija on the occasion of Utopia Station at Shelby Cullom Davis Centre for Historical Studies, Princeton University
3 Caveats On A Barewall | 3 Caveats To Be Worn Casually
3 Caveats On A Barewall & 3 Caveats To Be Worn Casually are a set of inscriptions designed to be read on a bare wall, or worn as wristbands, that ask questions about viewership, curation, exhibition and distance.
Erosion by Whispers
Erosion by Whispers is an intangible presence of words, whispers and rumours across our dense urban infrastructure suggesting that fragility is as much part of the experience of cities as the claim to endurance is built into their design.
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