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, […]
In the world of labour, men and women, animals and devices come together and diverge in all sorts of interesting ways.
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.
One Meter of Truth (Emotion) (2014)Shown at: National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi (2014) Steel table with wooden top, printed canvas 58”x 58”, 1m steel measure During a rehearsal process for a work being made with theatre artists, Raqs began to seek a language for states of feeling, and the body, that were at a […]
The Ecliptic reimagines the passage of time through a bespoke clock that blends inscribed words, shifting light, and syncopated electrical impulses
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
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