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 […]
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
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art,’ catalogue accompanying the exhibition
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 confronts the notion of the ‘citizen’ by looking at the absence or void where a person may be
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 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 […]
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 […]
The Wherehouse is a constellation of images, objects and annotational possibilities designed to posit a speculative archaeology of/for the present moment
The Imposter in the Waiting RoomShown at: Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (2004) | National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) (2014) Installation with video, photography, performance, text, sound and print The Impostor in the Waiting Room is a consideration on what happens when modernity encounters its shadow. As a group of practitioners who navigate routes […]
Network of No_des uses driftwood from web searches, messages in data bottles, re-mixed fragments of Hindi and Bengali film scenes and research notes from Sarai’s exploration of new media street culture in Delhi to present an array of associational possibilities.
Lecture Performance with And Company & Co. Das TAT, Frankfurt (2004)
The Sarai Reader 04 takes on open questions to map new territories of thought about media practice. It brings in the question of responsive ways of going media that are not captive to “events and issues” but that actually expands communicative potential in society. The book argues for reclaiming critique, an autonomy of decision against […]
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Impostor in the Waiting Room’, the publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2004
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