{"id":4015,"date":"2020-02-22T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:10:15","slug":"recensions-without-originals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/22\/recensions-without-originals\/4015","title":{"rendered":"Recensions, Without Originals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-family: EB+Garamond;font-size: 25px;text-align: center\"><em><strong>Recensions, Without Originals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-ee095044 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#read\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Recensions-without-Originals_Final.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" id=\"read\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Recensions-without-Originals_Final.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:850px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">This essay uses the concept of \u201crecension\u201d\u2014ongoing revision\u2014to reflect on three decades of Raqs Media Collective\u2019s practice amid economic turmoil, social unrest, and a mounting pandemic. Tracing moments from the creation of Sarai\u2019s public\u2011sharing infrastructures and early social\u2011software experiments, it argues that creative and curatorial work is sustained through collective re\u2011apprehension, infrastructural generosity, and the continual rewriting of contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><br><em>Published in &#8216;Storytellers of Art Histories\u2019, Edited by Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel, 2022<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay uses the concept of \u201crecension\u201d\u2014ongoing revision\u2014to reflect on three decades of Raqs Media Collective\u2019s practice amid economic turmoil, social unrest, and a mounting pandemic. 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