Dyeing Inayat Khan
With Dyeing Inayat Khan, Raqs extends their practice of intervening with video in archival and historical traces.
WORKS
Memorophilia
Raqs opens by asking “Who is Memory For?” and invokes Plotinus to suggest memory lives for those who have forgotten . A chance encounter at Paris’s Musée Guimet before a Banteay Srei frieze evokes a paradoxical mix of estrangement and familiarity, tracing a narrative that began in 200 B.C. and traveled thousands of miles and […]
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.
Asankh/ Countless
The material infinitude that makes up the real world, Raqs argues, is a swirling, entangled mass of vital, corporeal wills to live and exist actualized as forms of matter and sentience
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.
Plaques for Coronation Park
Circular plaques created as a part of Coronation Park (2015). They have inscribed statements adapted from George Orwell’s parable about the brittleness of Imperial authority, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ (1936)
Why Not Ask Again: 11th Shanghai Biennale
The title for this biennale takes the form of a call and a question. This biennale sends out a call, and it asks a question: ‘Why Not Ask Again?’ The phrase is both a demand and a query. It demands that we ask questions, repeatedly if necessary, but it also implies a simple query – […]
The Museum of Lost Constellations
The Museum of Lost Constellations is an attempt to recover thirteen of them into memory through a set of objects that recall the names and lore connected to each lost constellation.
A Day in the Life of Kiribati
A Day in the Life of Kiribati gives the time of Kiribati, the first land on Earth to switch the calendar over to 2000, and which could be the first place on this planet to disappear with rising sea levels because of global warming
With an Untimely Calendar
Edited by Shveta Sarda, Published by the National Gallery of Modern Art in conjunction with the solo exhibition of Raqs Media Collective, Asamayavali/ Untimely Calendar, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, 2014.
Equinox
Equinox is made by Raqs in response to the collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The video plays on the sense of the night coming alive with animal forms, and echoes their experience during a flashlight midnight tour of the museum where they sensed a different animatedness in the objects of the collection.
The Last International & Three Meetings That May Have Happened, Underwater or Mid-Air
The Last International is a conduit to reach the future and its freedom, which is already present in our time as its biggest public secret — a world beyond Capital.
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.
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