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
Once Again, to the Distant Observer
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art,’ catalogue accompanying the exhibition
Erosion by Whispers
Erosion by Whispers is an intangible presence of words, whispers and rumours across our dense urban infrastructure suggesting that fragility is as much part of the experience of cities as the claim to endurance is built into their design.
Lost new shoes
Lost New Shoes confronts the notion of the ‘citizen’ by looking at the absence or void where a person may be
Phantoroman: Preface to a ghost story
Preface to a Ghost Story, 2005, is a series of black-and-white vignettes that tell the tale of an ‘unknown citizen’ who has leaped to his death, leaving behind a make-do archive for a gathering of shadows.
A Measure of Anacoustic Reason
A Measure of Anacoustic Reason Shown at: India Contemporary, Venice Biennale (2005) | Thermocline of Art, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (2007) | There has been a change of plan, Nature Morte, New Delhi (2006) Installation with 1 projection, 4 screens, 4 dialogues, 4 lecterns, 4 benches with embedded speakers, lightbox A Measure of […]
Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts
The Sarai Reader 05 looks at “Acts” as instruments of legislation, at things within and outside the law, and at “acts”- as different ways of “doing” things in society and culture. This issue foregrounds the discourse surrounding piracy, borders, surveillance, claims to authority and entitlement, the language of expertise, the legal regulation of sexual behaviour […]
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