{"id":3944,"date":"2021-09-10T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2024-09-19T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T08:47:07","slug":"when-proust-catches-the-glare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/when-proust-catches-the-glare\/3944","title":{"rendered":"When Proust Catches the Glare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Proust Catches the Glare (2021)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video, Text, Scanned Handwriting<\/em>
Duration, 7 ‘ 45<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the earth turns to spin slightly faster than before in 2021, and as the heavens break ranks, involuntary memories return to the beckoning of the lime-tar-fish-jasmine-gasoline-brine smell of a new time. This smell of a new time needs new words – and an old hand – to write it all down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To catch this whiff, and filter it through a prismatic pandemic light, Raqs reverse-engineer the handwriting of Marcel Proust (from scans made of Proust\u2019s letters held by the Kolb-Proust Archive at the University of Champaign Urbana). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the doppelg\u00e4nger of Marcel\u2019s scrawl and the relayed light of its own voices, Raqs makes a video that finds a half-full hourglass and a rebellion of calendars.
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