{"id":5035,"date":"2014-11-08T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:27:35","slug":"art-as-place-a-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2014\/11\/08\/art-as-place-a-proposition\/5035","title":{"rendered":"Art as place: A proposition\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-family: EB+Garamond;font-size: 25px;text-align: center\"><strong><em>Art as a Place: A Proposition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline has-regular-font-size is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#city\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">CITY AS STUDIO<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline has-regular-font-size is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#art\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">ART AS A PLACE<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline has-regular-font-size is-style-outline--3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#common\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">COMMON GROUND<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The three curatorial projects <strong>City as studio, Art as a place and Common ground<\/strong> conceived between <strong>2009- 2014<\/strong> are an extension of Raqs&#8217;s engagement with the creative community that reimagine the questions around cultural infrastructures. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"city\" style=\"font-size:21px\"><strong><em>CITY AS STUDIO<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped uag-masonry uagb-block-d5707c7b wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"343\" height=\"514\" data-id=\"5072\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3.png 343w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3-300x450.png 300w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3-334x500.png 334w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3-16x24.png 16w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3-24x36.png 24w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.33.15-PM-edited-3-32x48.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"5073\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-640x960.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-640x960.png 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-300x450.png 300w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-333x500.png 333w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-16x24.png 16w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-24x36.png 24w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited-32x48.png 32w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.34-PM-edited.png 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"5074\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-640x960.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-640x960.png 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-300x450.png 300w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-333x500.png 333w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-16x24.png 16w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-24x36.png 24w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1-32x48.png 32w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.37.52-PM-edited-1.png 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>City as Studio<\/em> brings together people from a range of social, cultural and media contexts to engage creatively with the local rhythms of a place. The studios set in motion collaborative practices in contexts of unequal and contested urban environments that culminate in exhibitions, events that creatively intervene in the public life of our city through multiple media forms. The temporary City Studios in different parts of Delhi are imagined as generative environments that create contexts for innovation and experimentation in areas of dense intersections of social, technological and cultural forces.&nbsp; The project culminates in 3 studios in 3 years, each with specific durations of pre\u2010production, studio time and post\u2010production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de 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 wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/City-as-Studio-1_2009-10_compressed-copy.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">City as Studio 2009<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de 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 wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/City-as-Studio-2_2010-11.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">City as Studio 2010<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de 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 wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/City-as-Studio-3_2011-12.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">City as Studio 2011<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-1280x769.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5105\" style=\"width:1020px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-1280x769.png 1280w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-640x384.png 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-1536x923.png 1536w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-833x500.png 833w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-24x14.png 24w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-36x22.png 36w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM-48x29.png 48w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.48.18-PM.png 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"art\" style=\"font-size:21px\"><strong><em>ART AS A PLACE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-1280x852.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-1280x852.png 1280w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-640x426.png 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-751x500.png 751w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-24x16.png 24w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-36x24.png 36w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM-48x32.png 48w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-3.08.51-PM.png 1406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Work 10am-5pm Over a Week, in the Space || Call People for Lunch Discussions if You Want || Develop a Critical Lexicon and Vocabulary for Contemporary Art || Involve More People || Work by Yourself || Work Together With Others || Invite || Perform || Initiate || Create Punctuations || Pair || Make a Set || Produce a Work || No Specific Work Needs Be Made || Stage || Transform Space || Give Form to an Idea || Question || Explore || Respond || Investigate || Invent || Propose an Open Studio || Extend Art Writing || Create a Process Practice || Relay Processes || Imagine an Extended Network Practice || Produce Repetition Works || Shape Instruction Works || Conceive A Soap Opera || Occasion a Crime Story || Conduct an Audition || Put Together a Photographic Billboard || Realise a Slideshow || Compose a Mis-en-Scene || Formulate a Broadsheet&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Sarai Reader 09,<\/em> running from 18 August 2012 to 16 April 2013, is an exhibition asking for the sensation of thought and its relation to artistic practice to be explored. Through proposals, ideas, processes, speculations, experiments, trials and enquiries, almost 60 artists\/non-artists are engaging with possibilities of artistic life.<br>\u00a0<br><em>Sarai Reader 09<\/em>: The Exhibition is curated by Raqs Media Collective and is a collaboration between Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, and Sarai-CSDS, Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped uag-masonry uagb-block-25dc492b wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1040140-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"5039\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1040140-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1040140-640x360.jpg 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Workbook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"common\" style=\"font-size:21px\"><strong><em>COMMON GROUND<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0305-1280x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5101\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5047021943573669;width:1118px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0305-1280x850.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0305-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0305-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0305-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, 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src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-1280x787.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5078\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6271186440677967;width:1120px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-1280x787.png 1280w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-640x393.png 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-768x472.png 768w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-1536x944.png 1536w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-1024x629.png 1024w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-08-at-4.30.46-PM-300x184.png 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It discovers the city\u2019s potential for being hospitable to an exciting life of culture and contemporary art through the imaginative re-usage and adaptation of existing spaces and infrastructure.&nbsp;<br><br>From Rabindra Rangshala in the Ridge, to the Dolls Museum at ITO, and the Delhi Public Library opposite Old Delhi Railway Station, Delhi is full of spaces that await intervention and innovative usage. The curatorial intention is to find and articulate fresh ways of thinking around a wide selection of spaces, the range of which includes public libraries, auditoriums, and community centers, amongst others. The aim is to inaugurate a rethinking of \u2018place\u2019 in contemporary art as an active presence, and the foregrounding of the poetics of usage as a vital axis of art\u2019s inhabitation with life and its potential. While each such site comes laden with distinct narratives waiting to be considered, our interest is to fuel ideas towards reanimating these spaces and their practices of use beyond the paradigms of historicity, heritage, nostalgia and obsolescence. 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