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.
A Fortunate Spell of Pleasant Amnesia
The work speaks to how we encounter violence, and how we need not
Autodidact’s Transport
The Autodidact’s Transport is a transformation of the interior of a Gwangju local metro train with literal lines of conversation (originally diagrammed from Raqs’ computer conversations with each other), scripted orations that parse Erasmus’ ‘In Praise of Folly’ to think about democracy, and with short films with aphorisms that run on the advertising monitors in the trains.
Log Book Entry Before Storm
Log Book Entry Before Storm is a site specific installation that occupies what was once a peculiar domestic space- a single house cut in two by a concrete wall to accommodate two families
Time Interruptions (2009, 2014)
Escapement 27 clocks, high glass aluminium with LED lights, four flat screen monitors, video and audio looped Dimensions variable Escapement was first imagined in the form of Location (n) at Italy Cultural Centre, Sao Paolo; Nature Morte (2006) Escapement invokes clockwork, emotions, geography, fantasy and time zones to ask what is contemporaneity – what does […]
Sarai Reader 09: art as a place / The Exhibition
Work 10am-5pm Over a Week, in the Space || Call People for Lunch Discussions if You Want || Develop a Critical Lexicon and Vocabulary for Contemporary Art || Involve More People || Work by Yourself || Work Together With Others || Invite || Perform || Initiate || Create Punctuations || Pair || Make a Set […]
Will you, Beloved Stranger
Will you, Beloved Stranger? is a performance piece for two readers in a designed setting featuring a rendition of two bodies of poetic work — those of the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (writing in Hebrew) and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (writing in Arabic)
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.
Sarai Reader 09: Projections
The Sarai Reader 09: Projections sets its stage on dual platforms: the printed Reader and a parallel exhibition at the Devi Art Foundation—inviting ideas and visuals to journey together, sometimes converging, sometimes diverging. More than a catalogue or companion piece, this book creates a roadmap: illuminating questions, amplifying desires, and sparking new lines of inquiry across […]
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
Conversation between Chang Tsong-Zung and Raqs Media Collective, Published in ‘Extra Time’, Edited by Chen Yun, 2013
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