However Incongruous
Raqs imagined Gainda as a fiberglass life-size sculpture of Albrecht Dürer’s etching transformed into a carousel carriage.
Sarai Reader 07: At Frontiers
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 […]
Aswatthama – an Entry for the Dictionary of War at Graz, October 2006
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
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
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 K.D.Vyas Correspondence
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.
Acceleration and Conflicts: Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After
Text by Jeebesh Bagchi, Published in ‘The Journal of Moving Image, Jadavpur University, 2006
Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘RHIZOME DIGEST: September 15, 2006
Contribution For “2006 Peace Tower”
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
There has been a change of plan features enigmatic images of aircraft abandoned in a dessert blossoming after a rain shower
A Dying Man Sings Of That Which Felled Him
A Dying Man Sings Of That Which Felled Him presents its viewer with a silent song of a thousand words, a bier of iron rods for the repose of a fallen man, a setting sun, and an empty chair awaiting a visitor
On the question of standards while considering the freedom of speech, after Duchamp
A piece in response to the invitation from Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija on the occasion of Utopia Station at Shelby Cullom Davis Centre for Historical Studies, Princeton University
3 Caveats On A Barewall | 3 Caveats To Be Worn Casually
3 Caveats On A Barewall & 3 Caveats To Be Worn Casually are a set of inscriptions designed to be read on a bare wall, or worn as wristbands, that ask questions about viewership, curation, exhibition and distance.
Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
Sarai Reader 06 takes the fact of a chaotic, turbulent world as a given, and then asks, now what? This Reader places us in the vortex of daily life: tremors, power cuts, agitations rising and fading across streets and airwaves. The preface captures a world where floods, fires, riots, and sudden silences shape an ever-shifting […]
Digressions from the Memory of a Minor Encounter
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe’, Edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. Published by Roomade and The MIT Press, 2006
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