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 […]
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.
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
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.
Homo Speculos, is a work that reflects on this condition. It places five ‘true mirror’ assemblages on five pedestals at different heights and angles, such that a person appearing in front of it, sees himself, or herself, broken, but re-assembled, and laterally un-reversed.
Coronation Park echoes and amplifies the accidental epiphany that Raqs experienced a long time ago about the nature of power at the eponymous derelict quasi-ceremonial space where relics of the British Raj are kept for the consideration of an absent public at the outskirts of Delhi.
The Bureaux of Raqs and Faqs takes the form of an onsite performance installation. It takes off from the fact that one of the ways in which the word ‘Raqs’, in the name of the collective, has been sometimes mistakenly parsed is as the acronym RAQS, ‘Rarely Asked Questions’, as opposed to ‘FAQS’ or ‘Frequently Asked Questions
Fever, Fever interrupts a tale of assassination, escape and sacrifice from the classical epic Mahabharata
Two works- Art in the Age of Collective Intelligence & If The World was a Fair Place
Luminous WillSolo ExhibitionSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015) Does history repeat itself, or simply rehearse its moves in anticipation? Can we read chronicles in terms of deferrals and déjà-vu rather than in terms of climaxes and closures? Luminous Will refers to an eponymous work by Raqs Media Collective, where the hands of […]
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)
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 – […]
Rhode Island School of Design invited Raqs Media Collective to serve as Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar Fellows in RISD’s Painting Department. In response, Raqs designed a thirty-day open studio in the RISD Museum centered on marginalia.
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Take on Art: Studio’, Issue 17, March 2015
The Namak Haram’s Philosophy, Revised Shown at: ‘Words, A user’s manual’, Gallery 320, New Delhi (2012) Treated Photographic Diptych96.6 inches x 24.4 inches Every book demands another, but not all of them get written. Every debt demands to be paid, but not all are redeemed. Then there are the debts that we owe to the all that we read, […]
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