Super-Duper Helter-Skelter Lego World

Raqs Web 31 July

1 minute

Super-Duper Helter-Skelter Lego World Digital print on Hahnemühle FineArt pape, 89 x 41 cm Super-Duper Helter-Skelter Lego World is a map of the world in building blocks. Each block, repeated across the map, stands in […]

SEEPAGE

Publisher: Sternberg Press (2010)

The Things that Happen when Falling in Love

Raqs Media Collective 18 February

1 minute

The Things that Happen when Falling in Love Installation with 18 coloured and clear acrylic figures with printed mirrored letters, wire cables, 7 video screens, 13 photographs Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Newcastle (2010) […]

The Capital of Accumulation

Raqs Media Collective 18 January

1 minute

Capital of Accumulation 2010/ Installation with 2 channel video projection and audio, 2 books in glass-fronted bookcase. Duration: 50:00 minutes The promised city, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin (2010); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2010); The […]

In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive.

Text by Raqs

The surface of each day is a different planet

Raqs Media Collective 26 October

2 minutes

The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet | 2009Film (38 minutes)Art Now: Lightbox | Tate Britain Stories leak, histories collide. Bones, bodies, faces, and handwriting blur. Crowds gather and move. Open-ended and anti-documentary, The […]

Escapement

Raqs Web 16 August

4 minutes

Escapement Installation with 27 clocks, high glass aluminium with LED lights, four flat screen monitors, video and audio looped, dimensions variable Frith Street Gallery, London (2009) Escapement invokes clockwork, emotions, geography, fantasy and time zones […]

Acceleration and Conflicts
Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After

Text by Raqs

EMOTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF

Text by Raqs

On the Other Hand

Raqs Web 31 July

1 minute

On the Other Hand Wall-mounted LED, acrylic lightbox, 71 x 10 x 4 cm Frith Street Gallery, London (2009) The clock’s hands measure the stations of the hours, while human hands play their own game […]

Decomposition

Raqs Web 31 July

1 minute

Decomposition Site-specific installation at the Asia Art Archive with index cards, self-inking stamps, printed ceramic tiles, customized jigsaw puzzles Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2009) The installation uses found poetry and accidental discoveries in archives […]

One Four Four Zero

Raqs Web 31 July

2 minutes

One Four Four Zero Acrylic glass tubes in circular acrylic housing, 15 x 64 cm diameter Escapement, Frith Street Gallery, London (2009) One thousand four hundred and forty crystal perspex tubes, some square, some circular, […]

Love is Engineering

Raqs Web 31 July

1 minute

Love is Engineering Printed transparencies, acrylic glass, steel fixtures, 24 x 36 cm Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London (2009) Fused transparencies of mechanical drawing encased in plexiglass […]

When the Scales Fall from your Eyes

Raqs Media Collective 18 March

3 minutes

When the Scales Fall from your Eyes Installation with mould-blown glass busts, found objects, variable-colour light source IKON Gallery, Birmingham (2009) “When the Scales Fall from Your Eyes” dismantles our obsessions with measurement and quantifiable […]

How to be an artist by night

Text by Raqs
Published in in Art School : Propositions for the Twentieth Century, Edited by Steven Madoff. MIT Press, Boston, 2009

The Flights of the Pink Flamingo or Historiae Sub-Rosae of Capital and the Twentieth Century

Text by Kaushik Bhaumik, on Raqs Media Collective’s video diptych “The Capital of Accumulation”, published in ‘Art India’, Vol XV, Issue III, Quarter III, 2010

STAMMER, MUMBLE, SWEAT, SCRAWL, AND TIC

Text by Raqs, published in e-flux journal #0 November 2008

Reserve Army

Raqs Web 31 July

1 minute

Reserve Army Human-sized sand finish fibreglass sculptures, cash, and barbed wire ornaments, printed vinyl screen, 335 x 214 cm MuHKA, Antwerp (2008); The Audience and the Eavesdropper, Phillips de Pury, London and New York (2008-09); […]

Unusually Adrift from the Shoreline

Raqs Web 28 July

1 minute

Unusually Adrift from the Shoreline Site-specific Installation Neighbourhood Secrets Project/Stavanger (2008); Rådhusteateret, Sandnes, Norway (2008) A cinema invites us to see in the dark. A lighthouse helps a sailor see where he is. Both work […]

Unfamiliar Tales

Raqs Web 28 July

1 minute

Unfamiliar Tales Lenticular photographs, Etched acrylic sheets, 2 sets of 2, each 90 x 120 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2008-09) “Unfamiliar Tales” is a pair of image-text diptychs titled ‘How The Most Terrible […]

THE REST
OF NOW

Manifesta 7, Companion , Edited by Rana Dasgupta With Raqs Media Collective (2008)

Sarai Reader 08: Fear

Fact, Facticity and the Imagination

Text by Raqs

Anonymous Steel Worker

Raqs Media Collective 16 September

1 minute

Anonymous Steel Worker | 2007Enamel screen print on stainless steel, 96 inches x 58.5 inchesMattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08) Every factory has a time book. The time book is an index of the value of a […]

DisOrient

Raqs Web 28 July

1 minute

DisOrient Print on bond paper, 30 x 21 cm Part of Markus Meissen’s The Violence of Participation, 2007 Lyon Biennale, Lyon (2007); Markus Meissen, The Violence of Participation (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2007) A fragment of […]

TIME BOOK

Raqs Web 6 June

3 minutes

Time Book, Exhibition Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08) Special thanks to the Rivers of Steel Heritage Area, Homestead, PA. Hanging on the wall across from the entrance are four non-working factory time clocks. The hand of […]

INSURANCE % INVESTMENT

Raqs Web 23 May

3 minutes

Insurance%Investment Three videos with sound tracks, wallpaper with photographic prints, 2007 Art of the Possible, Lunds Konsthall, Lund (2007) Insurance%Investment illustrates the mental arithmetic of investment and insurance, two mechanisms designed to administer, anticipate and […]

CEASURAL VARIATIONS I & II

Raqs Web 23 May

1 minute

Ceasural Variations I & II 2 Videos: Ceasural 1: 03:18; Ceasural 2: 3:53 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08). Re:Frame, Lowave, Paris (2009) Two short video meditations set in the post-industrial landscape of the steel town of […]

Sightings & Four Figures

Raqs Web 23 May

1 minute

Sightings/ 2007 Altered photographs printed on vinyl. Series of 4, each 130 x 275 cm San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (2007); 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007). Sightings is a photographic experiment with decaying architecture that suggests […]

Just Passed Harmony

Raqs Web 23 May

1 minute

Just Passed Harmony Inkjet on galvanized aluminum. 18 x 182 cm Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2007-08) A long strip of galvanized steel bears the emboss of the high road, just past the town called harmony. On […]

However Incongruous

Raqs Media Collective 16 March

3 minutes

However Incongruous | 2011 Fibreglass (160 x 92 x 320 cm) | Print Albrecht Dürer came across rumors of the Indian rhinoceros named Gainda sometime in 1515 that he would immortalize in his woodcut, Rhinoceros. Gainda the […]

Sarai Reader 07: At Frontiers

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, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007

The Mathematics of Anacoustic Reason

Raqs Media Collective 9 December

2 minutes

The Mathematics Of Anacoustic Reason Inkjet print, 182 x 120 cm Print containing images, text and mathematical symbols arranged in the form of an equation. “Out of the Equation: Roads to Reality” (a project curated […]

With Respect to Residue

Raqs Web 10 November

1 minute

Sets of 4 Printed (Paper) Table Mats with gold pigment with maps and images | Installation with lightbox table, chair, ashtray, printed paper placemats Note: The work was first shown at the Liverpool Biennale, 2004 as […]

The K.D.Vyas Correspondence

Raqs Media Collective 14 August

1 minute

The Kd Vyas Correspondence, Vol.1 Installation with 18 video screens and DVD players, steel frame structure audio Museum of Communication, Frankfurt (2006); Shooting Back, Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2007); Horn Please, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern […]

Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards

Text by Raqs

Contribution For “2006 Peace Tower”

Raqs Web 18 May

1 minute

Contribution For “2006 Peace Tower” Vinyl Panel, 2 feet x 2 feet A piece in response to the invitation from Mark di Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija to contribute to the ‘Peace Tower’ for the Whitney […]

There Has Been A Change Of Plan

Raqs Web 18 May

1 minute

There Has Been A Change Of Plan 2006/ Photographs on Hahnemuhle FInArt paper. Series of 4, each 96 x 137 cm There has been a change of plan, Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi (2006) There […]

A Dying Man Sings Of That Which Felled Him

Raqs Web 18 May

2 minutes

A Dying Man Sings Of That Which Felled Him Installation with rebar, furniture, closed circuit video Sub-contingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2006). Bombaysers de Lille, Maison Folie Moulins, Lille (2006-07) “A dying man sings […]

On the question of standards while considering the freedom of speech, after Duchamp

Raqs Web 18 May

1 minute

On the question of standards while considering the freedom of speech, after Duchamp Printed postcard 10 x 15 cm Utopia Station, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2006) A piece in response to the […]

3 Caveats On A Barewall | 3 Caveats To Be Worn Casually Installation of bilingual wall texts and wrist band inscriptions Sub-contingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2006) “3 Caveats…” are a set of inscriptions […]

Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence

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, 2006

Once again, to the distant observer

Text by Raqs, published in SubContingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Catalogue accompanying the exhibition

Ectropy Index

Raqs Web 14 November

3 minutes

2005/ HTML The word “ectropy” means a general increase in organisation. It appears to have been developed in 196 by Willard V. Quine, a philosopher and mathematician, in the course of a series of discussions […]

Erosion by Whispers

Raqs Web 14 November

1 minute

2005/ 2 lightboxes, galvanized wire, printed broadsheets, 66 x 76 x 13 cm | Exhibited at Ephemeral cities: A Project Space, Deptford X, London (2005)

Lost new shoes

Raqs Web 14 November

2 minutes

2005/ Installation with shoes, astroturf, and video projections | Exhibited at Citizens, Pitzhanger Manor House, London (2005); The City Gallery, Leicester (2005); Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales (2005); Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; (2005). Lost New Shoes confronts […]

Phantoroman: Preface to a ghost story

Raqs Web 14 November

1 minute

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 […]

A Measure of Anacoustic Reason

Raqs Media Collective 16 September

2 minutes

A Measure of Anacoustic Reason | 2005Installation with 1 projection, 4 screens, 4 dialogues, 4 lecterns, 4 benches with embedded speakers, lightbox | Exhibited at India Contemporary, Venice Biennale (2005), Thermocline of Art, Zentrum fur […]

Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts

The Wherehouse

Raqs Web 10 November

1 minute

The Wherehouse Installation with video, found objects, altered books, text panels, audio, spoken performance, photographs, and web page Revolution/Restoration II, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2004); Taipei Biennial, Taipei (2004–05) The Wherehouse is a constellation of […]

The Imposter in the Waiting Room

Raqs Web 16 August

4 minutes

The Imposter in the Waiting Room Installation with video, photography, performance, text, sound and print Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (2004). National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) (2014) The Impostor in the Waiting Room is […]

The Network of No_Des

Raqs Web 9 August

1 minute

The Network of No_Des HTML 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art (2004) “Nodes, when written, perhaps erroneously, as ‘no-des’ gives rise to an intriguing hybrid English/Eastern-Hindi neologism, a companion to the old words – ‘des’, and ‘par-des’. ‘Des‘ (in some […]

INFRA-PRACTICES

The Wherehouse Project

Lecture Performance with And Company & Co.

Das TAT, Frankfurt (2004)

Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/ Media

Dreams and Disguises, As Usual.

Text by Raqs. Published in ‘Impostor in the Waiting Room’, the publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2004

Utopia is a hearing aid

Raqs Web 10 November

1 minute

2003/ Posters installed in situ in Venice, Italy. 90x 60 cm (Utopia Station, Venice Biennale 2003) External link: Is the World Sleeping, Sleepless, or Awake or Dreaming? by Raqs Media Collective e-flux journal issue #56 […]

A/S/L (Age/Sex/Location)

Raqs Web 7 November

3 minutes

3-screen video & sound installation, with images, text and transcripts of a simulated chat room conversation | 2003 In this installation (which also doubles as a piece of text-based one-act electronic theatre), transcripts of chat […]

TAS (Temporary Autonomous Sarai)

Raqs Web 7 November

2 minutes

Raqs Media Collective with Atelier BowWow (Tokyo) Portable, multi-use structure made with packing crates for computers, projectors, paper, sound and people. Exhibited at How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center Minneapolis (2003) Commissioned by the […]

5 Pieces of Evidence

Raqs Media Collective 6 August

1 minute

5 Pieces of Evidence | 2003/ Installation with 5 video screens, audio, and steel armature 5 Pieces of Evidence reflects on missing persons, urban myths, transitoriness, maps, and global networks. The five screens are narratively organized […]

Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies

n°28

Raqs Web 7 November

2 minutes

28.28 N / 77.15 E : 2001/02 (Co-Ordinates, Delhi) Raqs, with Pradip Saha, translate documentary video and audio log sheets, notes, excerpts from legal document, and stickers and signs to create a matrix of meaning […]

N- Dl Jn. (New Delhi Junction)

Raqs Web 3 November

1 minute

Location: 28Â° 28′ N, 77Â° 15′ ETime Zone: – | – | UTC/GMT +5.30 HoursAirports: 1Inhabitants: 10,009,200 (Delhi), 16, 713,200 (Including Agglomeration) 24 x CD Players, Headphones and 24 x 5 Minute Audio Loops/MP3 | F.0037.0000 […]

OPUS (Open Platform for Unlimited Signification)

Raqs Web 3 November

5 minutes

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 […]

Coordinates Of Everyday Life

Raqs Web 25 October

1 minute

Coordinates of Everyday Life
3 videos, 1 floor vinyl, 10,000 stickers for city walls
Co-ordinates 28.8N 77.15E. Installation using video screens, sound, print, and stickers
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); CityOne conference, Sarai/CSDS Delhi (2003); The Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels (2003); Image Asia, Copenhagen (2003); Adaptations, curated by Craig Buckley, at Apex Art gallery in New York (2004); Fredrecianum, Kassel (2004); Digital Discourse, Malta (2005 – 2006).

Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life

The History & Practice of Cinematography in India

Raqs Web 17 November

8 minutes

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 […]

Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain

Sarai Reader List

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

Raqs Web 17 October

1 minute

PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE WORK OF ART
Carved marble panel, postcards, wall text

Global Health Village Manual

Raqs Media Collective 16 September

1 minute

Global Health Village Manual
HTML
Made with Mrityunjay Chatterjee
Print.com, Delhi (2000); Kingdom of Piracy (2002); ISEA (2004)