Over Time
Seven frames stand in for the seven days of the week. Each frame contains an assemblage of suspended objects.
Can You Say that Again (5 Uneasy Pieces)
Can You Say That Again? (5 Uneasy Pieces) features an intimate portable outdoor audio theater, framed by the “Exit” glyph of the walking man and the narration of five episodes of anchorage and dislocation. Part public furniture, part listening station.
Super-Duper Helter-Skelter Lego World
Super-Duper Helter-Skelter Lego World is a map of the world in building blocks
The Things that Happen When Falling in Love
The Things That Happen When Falling in Love brings together suggestions of words, and people on the move to create an image of a world where the fortunes of both love and labour are framed and dismantled by global forces.
On Earth as in Heaven
On Earth as in HeavenShown at: Ballard Estate, Religare Arts Initiative, Atmaram Mansion, Scindia House Connaught Circus (2010) Découpé acylic stack, using transparent, translucent and acid orange sheets. Placed on mound with astro-grass covered stepsDimensions, 3 feet x 4 feet; 310cm x 91 cm x 155 cm (at highest point) On Earth As in Heaven […]
The Capital of Accumulation
The Capital of Accumulation is a video installation that writes an oblique narrative of the relationship between metropolises and the world in counterpoint to Rosa Luxemburg’s exceptional critique of global political economy, ‘The Accumulation of Capital’.
Wonderful Uncertainty
Text by Raqs, published in ‘Curating and the Educational Turn’, edited by Paul O’Neill & Nick Wilson, Open Editions, De Appel, 2010
Brazen (Pittsburgh Torpedo)
Brazen (2009) was displayed at The Audience and the Eavesdropper, Phillips de Pury, London and New York.
In the grounds of an abandoned steel furnace, in a city that once made the greatest amount of steel in the world
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive
Text by Raqs, Published in Lalit Kala Conetmporary #52 (Journal), Photography as Art and Practice in India’,2012
The surface of each day is a different planet
he Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet builds sequential scenarios that move across time and space, while considering collectivity, anonymity and the question of identity through history, fantasy and speculation
Escapement
Escapement invokes clockwork, emotions, geography, fantasy and time zones to ask what is contemporaneity – what does it mean to be living in these times, in these quickening hours, these accumulating minutes, these multiplying seconds, here, now?
Machines Made to Measure
Text By Raqs, Published in ‘Emotional Cartographies: Technologies of The Self’, Edited by Christian Nold, 2009
On the Other Hand
The clock’s hands measure the stations of the hours, while human hands play their own game of silhouettes, closing in on the hour of fear only to then open out on the moment of ecstasy, as if protecting Time from its own devices.
Decomposition
The installation uses found poetry and accidental discoveries in archives and takes the form of a playful gesture of appreciation of the labour of the archivist.
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