Comic Contempt
As time refracts, its shatter illuminates differing strands. A comic’s contempt, her whisper of laughter, threatens the consensus.
The Coarse Fabric of Being Human
The only actually shared sensation is the present continuous tense. It reconstitutes, everyday, the coarse fabric of being human, rearranging the atoms of collective experience.
Ferment
If the big, open sky is a canopy for the tumult of birds and angels, then under which roof does the flight of the ferment of our times soar?
Memes and Fables
Memes and Fables: …tick tock Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 70cm x 54.5cm Memes and Fables: …tock tick Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 68cm x 55.5cm Memes and Fables: …wicked Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 70cm x 57.5cm Memes and Fables: …let it be Newspaper, blackboard […]
Chromachron
Unexpected arrivals (of a virus in one year) and departures (of a species in another) transform the colour of time. Each year gets a colour signature: a chromachron.
The Sovereign and its Company & The Sovereign Takes a Walk
The Sovereign and its CompanyShown at: Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2021) Velvet, silkscreen, wallpaper150 cm x 300 cm, 560 cm x 375 cm The Sovereign and its Company are multiple, and multiply formed. Anything can be deputized. The historical glory and moral authority of the sovereign and its company melts away, and then reconstitutes itself, constantly. […]
31 Days
A conversation in images, missives to selves and world, mood swings in lockdown and a share in the planet’s lucid dreams during a global pandemic.
A Gathering of Birds
In the sonic range of the flight-path of a gathering of birds, we momentarily transmit to each other.
Unledgered
Lifetimes and archives are in wait of revolts of intimacy that disorder the time of the living.
Hungry for Time
An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective, in the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2021
salt
Published in ‘The Drama Review’, Volume 65 Issue 4, 2021
Freeing the Weight of the Habitual
This essay examines how established practices and ingrained habits can both confine and shape creative and curatorial processes.
Thickets
Moving between the sit-ins at Shaheen Bagh, the farmers’ protests, and pandemic lockdowns, through this essay, Raqs invokes the thicket as a metaphor for entangled solidarities and overlapping temporalities.
The Event-Shaped Hole and the Photographic Image
This essay introduces Raqs’ concept of the “event-shaped hole,” suggesting that photographs can act as pieces of evidence, even when the events themselves are absent from direct view.
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