Tides of Our TearsShown at: Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, Richmond, United Kingdom (2025) |Sea Change: New climate stories for the Royal Docks by Invisible Dust‘, Public intervention at Royal Docks & Thames Barrier Park, London (2023) 7 augmented reality poems, QR Codes The Tides of Our Tears unfolds as seven augmented reality poems placed along […]
e-flux journal #27, September 2011, Raqs Media Collective
The Waves Are Rising features an animated augmented reality (AR) wave on a large scale LED screen, superimposed upon live video feed video of the still waters of The Royal Docks, filling the vista of the usually calm waterscape with an animated surging wave as well as detritus and data from the high seas.
The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Parallax Time Cone’ is an investigation into the optics of this strange and specific sensation of time, which has become second nature since 1980. It is a time traveling search, aboard an imagined and remembered bicycle.
1980 in Parallax Exhibition at Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House, United Kingdom (2023) Raqs finds correspondence with Charles Jencks’ work as designer, critic, historian, concrete poet and artist, and with his Post-Modernist manifesto and former home turned Grade I listed museum, The Cosmic House. The concept of parallax describes the changing perception of objects […]
Published in, ‘Monuments Must Fall Issue #24’, British Art Studies (Conversation Piece convened by Edwin Coomasaru)
Unruly Iris of Dissent (U.I.D 2)Shown at: ‘Archeology of the self: Archives, Anarchives & the Artist‘, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi (2023) Projection of Video Loop 12 years after The Untold Intimacy of Digits (2011), which animated a nineteenth century Bengali peasant’s handprint found in a London archive into a spectral count towards infinity, Raqs […]
Upright board with an inscribed ‘Infra-Vocabulary’ of a selection from Raqs Media Collective’s synonyms for capital, taken from their work – ‘A Dying Man Sings of That which Felled Him’ (installation with video and inscriptions, 2006) which was subsequently published in their book, ‘Seepage’ (Sternberg Press, 2009)
This interview reflects on the conditions, thresholds, and frictions that shape collective work—within and beyond institutions, publics, and time. Raqs draws from their own processes to consider how collectivity is practiced, stretched, and sometimes tested. The conversation thinks through the limits of what can be done together, and what remains open, despite constraint. Published in […]
Published as a part of ‘Half-Life’, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Art Institute of Chicago within the context of its exhibition “Static Range” by Himali Singh Soin, 2022
Betaal / बे-ताल / Arrhythmic instigates an encounter with simulations of arrhythimic presences in an infrastructure-inflected landscape. The landscape of loops, knots, ties, ellipses, holes made of steel wires and metal bar creates a crisscross configuration suspended in space.
Time Travel is not a typical board game, although it looks quite ordinary: it consists of a board, instructions, and alphabet squares.
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive Text by Raqs
soDA magazine 19, Zurich (2002); Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada), Raqs presented the concept of “Event-shaped Hole” which translated into the essay The Event-shaped Hole and the Photographic Image in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 2021 Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada) A photograph is an image of an event-shaped-hole, and as witnesses to such perforations we could […]
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