Tides of Our Tears
The Tides of Our Tears unfolds as seven augmented reality poems rising from the river’s surges echoing the unstable rhythms of our ecological and economic present.
WORKS
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time
e-flux journal #27, September 2011, Raqs Media Collective
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive Text by Raqs
soDA Magazine Story
soDA magazine 19, Zurich (2002); Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada), Raqs presented the concept of “Event-shaped Hole” which translated into the essay The Event-shaped Hole and the Photographic Image in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 2021 Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada) A photograph is an image of an event-shaped-hole, and as witnesses to such perforations we could […]
Tears (are not only from weeping)
Tears are not only for weeping, they lubricate the possibility of vision. Sometimes we see things better when we cry, cry out aloud, or laugh, till the tears come unbidden.
Do Harmonious Friends cause dissonance?
An owl and a donkey interpolate themselves, indicating the simultaneity of leaving and returning. Time to pause. Time to ask, Do harmonious friends cause dissonance?
Memes and Fables
Memes and Fables: …tick tock Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 70cm x 54.5cm Memes and Fables: …tock tick Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 68cm x 55.5cm Memes and Fables: …wicked Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 70cm x 57.5cm Memes and Fables: …let it be Newspaper, blackboard […]
31 Days
A conversation in images, missives to selves and world, mood swings in lockdown and a share in the planet’s lucid dreams during a global pandemic.
Making Bets While Knowing Nothing
Text by Raqs, published in ‘The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary’, 2021
Sharing our Sources
The first publication accompanying Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020, curated by Raqs Media Collective.
Listening: Active Presence of Aura of the Ordinary
Listening: Active Presence of Aura of the Ordinary Suraj, Shamsher and Neelofar were part of the Cybermohalla Ensemble (2001-13), and co-authrored innumerable books, broadsheets, and art works with the Ensemble. Notable among them are Trickster City: Writings from the Belly of the Metropolis (Penguin-India, 2010, English translation of Bahurupiya Shehr, Rajkamal Prakashan, 2007), and Cybermohalla […]
21 Personae
21 Personae is an extension of the 51 Personae project curated by Raqs Media Collective for the 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016–17)
Time Devices (2011- 2025)
“One question that stayed with us and has proven to continue getting exponentially more complex is that of time. The 90s had posed the scrambling of time in ideas of development, progress, or modernity.During that time, as very young people, we examined and re-examined what progress could even mean. We have, from then, been unpacking […]
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
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