The necessity of Infinity
The Necessity of Eternity recounts what must be one of the most exciting yet neglected exchanges (Al-As’Ilah Wa’L-Ajwibah/Questions and Answers) in the intellectual history of the world.
The Blood of Stars
The Blood of Stars invites us to think about the relation between the presence of iron, a fugitive from the stars, sleeping deep inside the earth and the veins of warm-blooded mammals.
Alive, with Cerussite and Peppered Moth
This architectural installation speaks to the evolution of materials and living forms across alternative time epochs.
The Emperor’s Old Clothes & Hollowgram
The Emperor’s Old Clothes (2017)Shortlisted for The Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square 3D printed PLA Plastic and cast polyester resin What, would the departure of power from a Trafalgar Square pedestal look like? The Emperor’s Old Clothes is an answer to this question in sculptural form. What we intend to place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is […]
Twilight Language
Twilight Language signals a lighthouse semaphore for all that is lost and found between errant longitudes, infected histories and contagious futures. This is the time when everything changes; memorials defect, communards bake biscuits, moths mutate, divers rise, clocks speak in tongues. Animals, machines, and humans recover grounds of equality and conversation. Words turn incandescent, enigma shadows everything, twilight finds its language.
The Translator’s Silence
Fragments of texts by three South Asian poets, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Rabindranath Tagore, and Agha Shahid Ali, are presented in Urdu, Bengali and English, in lenticular 3D prints
Utsushimi
Utsushimi Site-specific installation at Suzu City, Oku-Noto Triennale, Japan (2017 – ongoing) Double Image / Token / Emanation Materialized Architectural Drawing in Illuminated Wireframe A double image might occur when reality exhales. In the breathing out of a form, we might see an emanation, a token of its impression in the air, on the senses. […]
Undoing walls
Can a “dysfunctional” wall structure be imagined so as to question the original intentions of a Government?
Read By, Written By
Read By, Written By is a poetry book compiled to accompany the Bonniers Konsthall 2017 exhibition, ‘The Image of War’
51 Personae
51 Personae expands on the possibilities of the 11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counterarguments, and Stories curated by Raqs Media Collective
Communard Biscuits
A hard tack biscuit from the Paris Commune of 1871 was 3D scanned, 3D printed, a mould made and facsimile biscuits baked.
Presentomorrow
PresentomorrowExhibited at Mondialité (2017) | Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels Installation with Video, still Images and Animated Text The installation presented within the framework of Mondialité makes references to several of their previous installations and to the writings of Édouard Glissant. It evokes the fact that the concepts, the […]
We are here but is it now
Text by Raqs, published as a monograph for “The Contemporary Condition” series, series editors Geoff Cox + Jacob Lund, 2017
The Return of Tipoo’s Tiger
he Return of Tipoo’s Tiger is a communiqué from the far future channeled by the Raqs Media Collective into the Victoria & Albert Museum for “Collecting Europe” a programme conceived by the Goethe Institute, London and the V&A Museum.
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