The Dislocation of Degree Zero
The Dislocation of Degree Zero is a matter of drawing, erasing, and re-drawing, almost as a repetitive compulsion – lines in the sand.
The Great Bare Mat
The Great Bare Mat gains inspiration from two exquisite Han bronze bears, mat-weights (2nd century BC) China that served to weigh down carpets on which debaters would sit and argue philosophical points
Extra Time
Extra Time opened as the chronic Art Center’s inaugural show. The show focuses on Raqs’ investigations of time and temporality in different registers that span the spectrum of their diverse practice ranging from performance, to installation, architectural ensembles, video, and photography.
Blood Of Stars: A walk in ten scenes
In The Blood of Stars, a media rich, site- specific installation located inside the Statsberget Cave, Raqs Media Collective catch starlight in a dying reindeer’s eye, eavesdrop on the logic of extraction inside an iron mine and explore the tunnels of an abandoned subterranean military facility inside the arctic circle that was left unused after being kept warm in preparation for a nuclear winte
ART AS A PLACE
Workbook by Raqs Media Collective with Kaushik Bhowmik, a digital publishing series (2013)
The House Of Everything And Nothing
In The House of Everything and Nothing, Raqs translates their conversation traffic into a texture that clads the surface for the Gujral house in Jor Bagh, New Delhi.
Extra Time Conversation between Chang Tsong-Zung and Raqs Media Collective
Extra Time Conversation between Chang Tsong-Zung and Raqs Media Collective Published in ‘Extra Time’, editor Chen Yun. Featuring contributions by Raqs Media Collective, Chong Tzung Chang, Huang Chien Hung, Lu Xinghua, Gao Shiming, Mou Sen & Li Zhenhua, 2013
The Portable Auto-Didactic Library
The Portable Auto-Didactic Library is a configuration of reading table with chairs, a bookshelf with books and an image that features a stack of books with no titles on their spines.
Calm Down, Madam (or, A Brief History of Capital)
The pavilions and spaces of the Shanghai Expo 2010 become chapters in Raqs’ eccentric account of a Brief History of Capital offered as a conceptual prophylactic to a nervous dowager worried about her fiscal health.
Vigil
he fortunes of a football match (the 20th round of the Chinese Football Association Super League in 2012 at the Hongkou Football Stadium in Shanghai) between two rival Chinese football clubs (Shanghai Shenhua F.C. and Hangzhou Greentown F.C.) into an orchestrated meditation on time and fate.
The Fruits of Labour
Raqs explores the idea of leftover, the post-mortem of industry and labour, as well as the sensory and imaginative connotations that the sentence fruits of labour may generate.
A Phrase, Not a Word
A Phrase, Not a Word Exhibition with videos, large-scale prints, a typographic sculpture and a sound installation Nature Morte Gallery, Delhi (2012) With “A Phrase, Not A Word”, Raqs’ diverse and eclectic practice becomes a playground for ideas and reflections on conversations and the notion of language. The exhibition gathers an arsenal of images, objects, voices, […]
Guesswork
Guesswork Frith Street Gallery, London (2012) The works featured in Guesswork invite the viewer to consider what it means to measure infinity and to seize time rather than to be captive to the passing moment. By working with pixels and proverbs, circuits and syntax, Raqs turn thoughts into images and images into questions. The works ask us […]
The Great Bare Mat and Constellation
The Great Bare Mat and Constellation Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston (2012) The “Great Bare Mat” of the title refers to a carpet made for the exhibition, a surface for the staging of conversations, displayed at the base of “The Vinegar Tasters”, a two-part 17th century Japanese screen from the Museum’s Collection. The carpet’s repeated […]
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