
INSURANCE % INVESTMENT
Insurance%Investment illustrates the mental arithmetic of investment and insurance, two mechanisms designed to administer, anticipate and forestall risk, speculation and the possibility of failure.
Insurance%Investment illustrates the mental arithmetic of investment and insurance, two mechanisms designed to administer, anticipate and forestall risk, speculation and the possibility of failure.
Two short video meditations set in the post-industrial landscape of the steel town of Pittsburgh.
Sightings is a photographic experiment with decaying architecture that suggests cartographic resonances. While, Four Figures works out four ways of making sense of today’s world, mapping a frontier between precarity and possibility.
A long strip of galvanized steel bears the emboss of the high road, just past the town called harmony. On the way, possibly to Industry.
Four standard issue wall clocks, with their hands arrested at the digits 1, 9, 8, and 6. Together, they point to 1986
Raqs imagined Gainda as a fiberglass life-size sculpture of Albrecht Dürer’s etching transformed into a carousel carriage.
Sarai Reader 07 argues that borders—political, conceptual, technical—are both passages and barriers. This volume examines how frontiers shape identities, rights, flows, and exclusions. It explores the tension between mobility and control, tracking how technologies of surveillance, documentation, and registration dictate who can pass and who remains invisible. It also reflects on the emotional weight of […]
Text by Raqs, Published in System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Edited by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Moahaiemen, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007
The Mathematics of Anacoustic Reason is an aphoristic image-text work in response to an invitation to respond to the concept: Out of the Equation: Roads to Reality. The project responds to this invitation by expressing an equation written primarily in the formal language of mathematics and by elaborating on this expression with images and a brief accompanying text.
With respect to residue is a project deigned to provoke reflection about the things, states of being, and histories that end up abandoned and waste, as the detritus of the routine processes that constitute and maintain the world.
The KD Vyas Correspondence Vol. 1 is an installation that embodies an epistolary enigma. The basis of this work are a set of eighteen ‘letters’ between Raqs and a person or entity who is identified as K.D. Vyas, sometime redactor of the Mahabharata.
Text by Jeebesh Bagchi, Published in ‘The Journal of Moving Image, Jadavpur University, 2006
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘RHIZOME DIGEST: September 15, 2006
A piece in response to the invitation from Mark di Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija to contribute to the ‘Peace Tower’ for the Whitney Biennial 2006
There has been a change of plan features enigmatic images of aircraft abandoned in a dessert blossoming after a rain shower
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