It’s About Being Here and There at the Same Time
Three metallic strips – brass, copper and steel– make a possible ‘doorway’ to another place, another time, and configure a possibility of being simultaneously inside and outside
Translator’s Silence
The Translator’s Silence incises three poetic fragments – from Faiz AhmedFaiz, Rabindranath Tagore and Agha Shahid Ali – on to a take-away embellished, folded paper card.
CYBERMOHALLA HUB
Cybermohalla Programme began in May 2001 as a dispersed network of labs and studios for experimentation across Delhi, initiated by the Sarai program (CSDS) and Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education. The Cybermohalla Ensemble is a collective of ten writers and practitioners that emerged out of this programme. Over seven years (2001-07), around 500 young […]
Forthcoming titles
Three unwritten books, each marking a whimsical relationship to specific influential texts (by Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Illyich Lenin and Antonio Gramsci) in the canon of Marxism, find their place amongst a set of echoing titles in a carefully laid out miniature library
P.T.O
Presented by Shveta Sarda This book is an appreciation of the listening, walking, reading, interviewing, collecting, questioning, mapping, recording, drawing, image-making and writing done by the hundreds of Independent Fellows associated with Sarai over the last decade. The works by the Fellows have been publicly archived through postings in the Sarai Reader-list and in the […]
Reverse Engineering the Euphoria Machine
Euphoria Machine is the name we give to the apparatus of desire and cognition that seeks to create a consensus within society for boundless energy and wealth, and effaces all doubts and dissent about the ways in which this energy and wealth must be acquired.
Drawings of a Conversation
Drawings of a Conversation distills the signal traffic between the three Raqs computers as they worked together in their Delhi studio on a single afternoon into a series of prints
After Hours: Art, Imagination and the Residue of the Working Day
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Work, Work, Work: A Reader on Art and Labour’, Edited by Cecilia Widenheim, Lisa Rosendahl, Michele Masucci, Annika Enqvist and Jonathan Habib Enqvist. IASPIS, Stockholm & Sternberg Press, Berlin & New York, 2012
A History of Infinity and Some Fresh Catastrophes
Text by Cuauhtémoc Medina, eflux journal #38
A Letter to Amália Jyran, Who Will be Fifty-Four in 2061 CE
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Imagine Being Here Now’ , (Catalogue/Reader) The Sixth Momentum Biennale, Mousse Publishing, 2011
Revoltage
Revoltage Shown at: Project 88, Mumbai (2010) | Festival d’Automne, Espace Oscar Niemeyer, Paris (2011) | Art Unlimited Basel (2012) | Tel Aviv Museum (2012) | Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna (2014) | National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2014) Text, lightbulbs, fixtures, acrylic, wire, synchroniser Revoltage fills the space it occupies with warmth, […]
Time Capsule from 2011 (TO BE OPENED IN 2061)
Time Capsule, from 2011, is a time travel device which makes it possible for Raqs to claim its contemporaneity with the future
How to get from here to there
Seven photographic prints trace the journey of an illuminated vehicle across a liminal landscape
Rewriting on the wall
In Rewriting On the Wall, hand-prints are reconfigured to produce an alphabet of gestures—each a gloss of the letters in standard American Sign Language as used by the deaf community.
More Salt In Your Tears
More Salt In Your Tears first presented as a text sculpture composed of three dimensional stainless steel letter-forms anchored on to a shallow section of seabed of the Baltic Sea near Turku, Finland.
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