The necessity of Infinity
The Necessity of Eternity recounts what must be one of the most exciting yet neglected exchanges (Al-As’Ilah Wa’L-Ajwibah/Questions and Answers) in the intellectual history of the world.
Practice is the daily ‘work’ (as verb) of art. It represents the sum of all the moves – practical, conceptual, affective, cognitive, philosophical, analytical and aesthetic – that occupies/de-occupies the state of our triangulation at any given point of time. Being contingent, this practice is a shape-shifting thing, prone to surprise itself as much it surprises others. Like a mycelial inhabitation, indeterminate and unbounded, it expands.
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The Blood of Stars
The Blood of Stars invites us to think about the relation between the presence of iron, a fugitive from the stars, sleeping deep inside the earth and the veins of warm-blooded mammals.
Alive, with Cerussite and Peppered Moth
This architectural installation speaks to the evolution of materials and living forms across alternative time epochs.
The Emperor’s Old Clothes & Hollowgram
The Emperor’s Old Clothes (2017)Shortlisted for The Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square 3D printed PLA Plastic and cast polyester resin What, would the departure of power from a Trafalgar Square pedestal look like? The Emperor’s Old Clothes is an answer to this question in sculptural form. What we intend to place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is […]
The Translator’s Silence
Fragments of texts by three South Asian poets, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Rabindranath Tagore, and Agha Shahid Ali, are presented in Urdu, Bengali and English, in lenticular 3D prints
Utsushimi
Utsushimi Site-specific installation at Suzu City, Oku-Noto Triennale, Japan (2017 – ongoing) Double Image / Token / Emanation Materialized Architectural Drawing in Illuminated Wireframe A double image might occur when reality exhales. In the breathing out of a form, we might see an emanation, a token of its impression in the air, on the senses. […]
Undoing walls
Can a “dysfunctional” wall structure be imagined so as to question the original intentions of a Government?
Communard Biscuits
A hard tack biscuit from the Paris Commune of 1871 was 3D scanned, 3D printed, a mould made and facsimile biscuits baked.
The Return of Tipoo’s Tiger
he Return of Tipoo’s Tiger is a communiqué from the far future channeled by the Raqs Media Collective into the Victoria & Albert Museum for “Collecting Europe” a programme conceived by the Goethe Institute, London and the V&A Museum.
Dyeing Inayat Khan
With Dyeing Inayat Khan, Raqs extends their practice of intervening with video in archival and historical traces.
Night & Day, Day & Night
A 24 hour clock where the usual digits are displaced with words in the Devanagri script relating to varying scales of time.
Time Gatherings
Meanwhile Elsewhere | 2014 Words, Clock-face Design on Vinyl Raqs Media Collective Berlin | Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh What begins with our eyes, travels to the brain, courses to our heart, and then returns to our eyes. Reading a feeling or a moment is something that happens between different aspects of consciousness. Reading off the walls […]
Seven Billion and One
The seven billion people of the planet are animated today as they have never been before — with possibilities, propositional forms, and with an entirely new morphology and vocabulary of solidarity.
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