Not Yet At Ease
Not Yet At Ease premiered at FirstSite, Colchester as part of the 1914-18 Now Commissions: a series of new artistic works commemorating a century of the First World War.
Provisions for everybody (film)
Provisions for Everybody Shown at: AV Festival, Newcastle (2018)| Project 88, Mumbai (2018)| Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2019) Single screen, Video, FurnitureDuration, 50′ Provisions for Everybody inscribes an eccentric itinerary on and off the trail of George Orwell that accompanies a reading of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’. Traveling between Northern England, Eastern India, […]
Provisions for everybody
With Provisions for Everybody, Raqs offers a weave of thoughts found on the the road; as well as images, calculations, texts, textures and textiles which accompany and aid the the task of re-imagining the relation between potential and plenitude.
Three Shadows
In Three Shadows, the dancing figures in white have been isolated and animated to render them into ghostly spinning specters.
A Planet Turns on its Axis Without Permission
Turning, and turning around, on the Rann does not alter the white horizon. Salt– brilliant under the sun–dazzles the eyes, opens the lachrymal canals. We taste our own salinity as time seasons us.
Thicket
Solo ExhibitionTate Exchange (December 14-20, 2016) A thicket is a concentration of living matter. In forests, gardens, and fields, thickets rise where different plant species find it possible to thrive together in a wild celebration of life itself. Conversations too can have thickets; points of intersection of lines of force. Through an interactive, participatory installation, […]
Provisions
Project 88 (Mumbai) 2018 “everything is burning” Raqs Media Collective returns to Project 88, Mumbai with “Provisions”, an exhibition that brings together the premiere in India of an ambitious recent video travelogue, ‘Provisions for Everybody’ (2018), as well as a new body of work — photo/text/objects that embody an agile and playful skepticism towards the […]
The Assurance Clock & Toxicare
The clock in the poster is an embodiment of assurance, the opposite of alarm
Workers and Robots Enter A Factory Canteen
An imagined conversation between real, embodied and artificial forms of intelligence, set in a moment of respite on a working day.
To Ask, When Empty
A suite of six uniquely colourful lenticular prints offer a dance of terse imperatives at the intersection of will and necessity
Toxicity in Equal Measure
A singular array of surfaces in materials that range from leather to metal celebrate the essential instability of all substances
Re Run
n revisiting and re-staging Cartier Bresson’s photograph in Shanghai, Raqs meet the conditions of the self-fulfilling prophecy invoked by the event captured in the original image.
Protest as Polyphony
An interview with Raqs by Melissa Karmen Lee, published in ASAP/Journal vol. 3.2, 2018
To ask when empty, to pour when full
To Ask when Empty, To pour when Full Text by Raqs, “On the aestheticization of Politics”
Foreground Manoeuvres
This essay investigates how the “foreground” of late capitalism—defined by ubiquitous automation, productivity triumphalism, and competitive edges—both shapes and erases social landscapes. Through a two‑act framework, Raqs first analyses the seismic shifts in the dispersal and connections in theproduction process and technology deployment. The second act examines the “production of residue”: which expressed itself with […]
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