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) Materialized Architectural Drawing in Illuminated Wireframe Utsushimi (Tr:double image/token/emanation) traces the outline of a now-defunct railway station in the Noto Peninsula of central Japan, capturing its essence through a ‘drawing sculpture’ that renders the station’s form as an exoskeleton. This skeletal emanation stands slightly […]
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 Presentomorrow brings together echoes from Raqs’ earlier installations and engages with the writings of Édouard Glissant. The work reflects on the layered nature of language and thought; how the concepts we […]
We are Here But is It Now?
In a dialogue between a deep‑sea diver and a shipwrecked rhinoceros, this text reframes the present as a drifting, submarine horizon—one that arrives unevenly across contexts and often eludes capture, unlike the more predictable arc of the future. Drawing on maritime and temporal metaphors, the essay assembles a cast of figures—from the wise to the […]
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.
Dyeing Inayat Khan
With Dyeing Inayat Khan, Raqs extends their practice of intervening with video in archival and historical traces.
Memorophilia
Raqs opens by asking “Who is Memory For?” and invokes Plotinus to suggest memory lives for those who have forgotten . A chance encounter at Paris’s Musée Guimet before a Banteay Srei frieze evokes a paradoxical mix of estrangement and familiarity, tracing a narrative that began in 200 B.C. and traveled thousands of miles and […]
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