Utopia is a hearing aid
Utopia is a Hearing Aid features images of the ear superscribed repeatedly with the statement “Utopia is a Hearing Aid”
A/S/L (Age/Sex/Location)
In this installation transcripts of chat sessions constitute an electronic patchwork that also includes real and simulated audio recordings of conversations between call centre workers and their clients, images of a female larynx, the text of a re-worked Upanishadic dialogue, and video recordings of a spoken English class in Delhi
TAS (Temporary Autonomous Sarai)
Commissioned by the Walker Art Center and funded by the Foundation, Temporary Autonomous Sarai is an installation and interdisciplinary collaboration between RAQS Media Collective (New Delhi) and the architectural firm Atelier Bow Wow (Tokyo
5 Pieces of Evidence
5 Pieces of Evidence reflects on missing persons, urban myths, transitoriness, maps, and global networks
Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies
In Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies, technology takes the centre-stage as a multi-faceted constellation of ideas, images, reflections, debates, histories and provocations. The book reframes “technology” not as a distant expert domain but as a lived, contested field. It charts the series’ trajectory from its encounter with free‑software publics to urban infrastructures to ask how […]
n°28
Documentary images of accidents, smog, crowds, police check posts, evictions, phone booths, bus stations, cyclists and communication infrastructure are positioned in counterpoint to legal excerpts and administrative notes
N- Dl Jn. (New Delhi Junction)
A sound work about moving into, and circulating within the city of Delhi – a magnet as well as a springboard for daily migrations. Delhi is a city that wakes up to new arrivals everyday
OPUS (Open Platform for Unlimited Signification)
OPUS (Open Platform for Unlimited Signification) Software | 2022 OPUS (Open Platform for Unlimited Signification) was an online space for people, machines, and codes to play and work together – to share, create and transform images, sounds, videos and texts. Opus was an attempt to create a digital commons in culture, based on the principle of […]
Coordinates Of Everyday Life
In listing a set of latitude and longitude measurements, bracketed by two calendar years, this installation names a citycalled Delhi and a time that feels like the first two years of the twenty-first century
Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life
The second book in the ‘Sarai Reader’ series takes off from where the first book ends. This text argues to take the urban seriously. It begins by addressing a dearth of city-focused writing in South Asia, asserting that rapid globalisation has propelled urbanism to the forefront of cultural and scholarly discourses. The book positions itself […]
The History & Practice of Cinematography in India
The History & Practice of Cinematography in India is a collection of transcripts of interviews with veteran and working cameramen, texts, archival photographs, production stills, bibliography, a timeline and other resources on the history of cinematographic practice in India.
Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain
This inaugural volume in Sarai’s reader series explores the layered meanings of the Public Domain through interwoven dialogues, essays, and FAQs. It opens with email exchanges that challenge conventional notions of publicness—moving from physical spaces like bazaars and streets to digital commons and free software culture. Drawing on historical, legal, and vernacular understandings, the text […]
New Maps & Old Territories: A dialogue between Yagnavalkya and Gargi in Cyberia
Text by Raqs, Published in Sarai Reader 01, The Public Domain, Sarai CSDS, Delhi 2001
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE WORK OF ART
Series of possibilities in the words that constitute the statement Please Do Not Touch the Work of Art are prised open by rearranging them to form statements of an almost identical length, that bear very different attitudes
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