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 is a matter of drawing, erasing, and re-drawing, almost as a repetitive compulsion – lines in the sand.
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 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.
The Imminent Departure of Anybody, Everybody, Somebody, Nobody, Antibody, Busybody and OthersShown at: ‘Extra Time’, Chronus Centre, Shanghai (2013) Ensemble of 18 renditions of the EXIT pictogram “Now and then, one can find a way out of the here and now. Always look for the exit sign.” Eighteen identical fluorescent acrylic figures in vivid colours, […]
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 […]
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
Workbook by Raqs Media Collective with Kaushik Bhowmik, a digital publishing series (2013)
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.
Conversation between Chang Tsong-Zung and Raqs Media Collective, Published in ‘Extra Time’, Edited by Chen Yun, 2013
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.
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.
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.
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 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, […]
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