{"id":2341,"date":"2006-08-14T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:21:12","slug":"the-k-d-vyas-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2006\/08\/14\/the-k-d-vyas-correspondence\/2341","title":{"rendered":"The K.D.Vyas Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The K.D. Vyas Correspondence, Vol.1
Shown at: Museum of Communication, Frankfurt (2006) | ‘Shooting Back’, Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2007) | ‘Horn Please’, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (2007- 08) | ‘Untimely Calendar\/Asamayavali’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi (2014)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installation with 18 video screens, DVD players, steel frame structure, audio<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The KD Vyas Correspondence Vol. 1 <\/em>is an installation that embodies an epistolary enigma. The basis of this work are a set of eighteen \u2018letters\u2019 between Raqs and a person or entity who is identified as K.D. Vyas, sometime redactor of the Mahabharata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installation manifesting the \u2018correspondence\u2019 brings together eighteen video enigmas that could be an abbreviated contemporary concordance to the eighteen cantos of the Mahabharata: densely encrypted messages, annotations to the letters themselves, or memories of places and times where they may have been read – once, twice or an infinite number of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work involves video, sound, a dossier and a dialogue with the architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Muller that results in a structure, \u2018The Node House\u2019, which holds the images and sounds, hovering like the disembodied memory of an instance of the epic\u2019s hyperlinked incantation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shown at: Museum of Communication, Frankfurt (2006)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shown at: ‘Shooting Back’, Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2007) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shown at: ‘Untimely Calendar\/Asamayavali’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi (2014)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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