A Gathering of BirdsShown at: ‘The Laughter of Tears’, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2021) Audio loop with 3 SpeakersDuration, 32’41” In the sonic range of the flight-path of a gathering of birds, we momentarily transmit to each other. We surpass contours of containment, and need no translation to be contagious.
Lifetimes and archives are in wait of revolts of intimacy that disorder the time of the living.
An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective, in the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2021
This essay examines how established practices and ingrained habits can both confine and shape creative and curatorial processes. It poses the question, “What is the mechanism — and how do we seek it — of ‘freeing’ the weights of habitual narrative entrapments?” prompting questions related to the forms and premises of the “system ofgovernance” that […]
“Being anywhere inside a thicket means having to deal with a tango between tenses, between the consequences of what yesterday has done, and what tomorrow will bring, and what the present proposes, all at the same time.” Moving between the sit-ins at Shaheen Bagh, the farmers’ protests, and pandemic lockdowns, Raqs invokes the thicket as […]
“The image making and processing capacity happen continuously, just as respiration, or digestion does, The new image machines breathe, digest, dream and excrete pictures. they don’t just ‘take’ them.” 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 […]
Text by Raqs, published in ‘The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary’, 2021
The first publication accompanying Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020, curated by Raqs Media Collective.
Still More World Solo ExhibitionMathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2019) Still More World confronts the thresholds of sustainability and to consider what futures we might illuminate—or extinguish—in our quest to shape the world. It is a delicate interplay between the material and immaterial, reminding us that every illuminated skyline carries within it echoes […]
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