Strikes At Time
‘Strikes at Time’ is a lucid dream. It takes readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night to take back the night.
Within the Flux of the Contemporary
Interview with Raqs, by Parul dave Mukherjee, Published in ‘Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics’, Edited by Jos de Mul and Renée van de Vali, 2011
Premonition
Premonition, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (2011) Sometimes, not even the insistent repetition of phenomena finds you prepared for the uncanny tug of premonition. Premonition: the anticipatory call of things forever about to happen. Even if nothing happens. Even if the emergency lights flicker away a wasting sense of urgency. The Impostor in the Waiting Room 2004/ Installation […]
Misadventures of A Phantom Limb
In Misadventures of A Phantom Limb Raqs gives form to this spectre as a shadowy, liquid trace of an arm
Protected: Whispers in the Archive
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Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta Journal #8’, 2010
Now and Elsewhere
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘What is Contemporary Art?’, Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood & Anton Vidokle. E Flux Journal & Sternberg Press, New York & Berlin, 2010. Also published in ‘The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds’, Edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg & Peter Weibel, ZKM Center for […]
The Rest of Now
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta 7 INDEX, one of three publications accompanying Manifesta 7, co-curated by Raqs Media Collective, 2010
The Librarian’s Lucid Dream
The Librarian’s Lucid Dream is a wallpaper carnival of impossible books made up of the index card entries for an imaginary library
Impossibly Rare, Infinitely Valuable, Eternally Free
To survive on love and fresh air is to thrive on next to nothing. Accordingly, this image bottles the two things that are precious but impossible to sell—love and fresh air.
The Perpetual Recall of the Penultimate Afternoon
The Perpetual Recall of the Penultimate Afternoon constructs an itinerary in the footsteps of Rosa Luxemberg’s last days in Berlin
Revolutionary Forces (The Three Tasters)
Three volunteers tell three stories. The surface underneath them is in a state of permanent revolution.
The Communist Latento
The Communist Latento is an image/text series that features photographs of found minimalist hand-drawn signage on transparent surfaces (mainly arrows and direction markers) annotated by a set of terse statements by Raqs.
Time is Money
Speculating on the concept of time, Time is Money intertwines financial and political matters related to capitalism with ontological issues related to ephemerality and permanence
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