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 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 […]
In 2011-12, while thinking about weaving disparate processes, interests and possibilities of all kinds together, Raqs invited Suraj Rai, a self-taught computer programmer, to create a snapshot of their working and thinking together
Eccentric Orbits is a suite of four videos featuring mysterious activities in a world that weighs things differently than the one we think we know.
A Different Gravity presents a flying carpet, a timetable, a wrong chair, and a mirror stage
Archetypes and Other Permissive Forms – an assemblage of metallic forms attached etched to twelve clear, coloured acrylic plinths, emerged as a gesture of reciprocity
The Primary Education of the Autodidact, commissioned by the Audain Gallery, is out of a series of works by Raqs Media Collective that explores knowledge, power, utterance, and silence.
A quorum of players face off across a long well lit table over an abundant flow of wine in a play of words and thought.
A sailor, a prostitute, a city, the search for warmth, and a slice of snatched time; Shore Leave is a short story in words and images about words and the unsaid, about desire and the incalculability of longing
What does knowledge taste like? The unsalted white of an egg. It asks for the garnish of betrayal. An instruction based work for public libraries which pauses to consider the saline taste of wisdom.
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
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 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 […]
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
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 […]
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