{"id":6722,"date":"2018-03-02T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:05:06","slug":"re-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/re-run\/6722","title":{"rendered":"Re Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Re-Run
Shown at: Chronus Art Center, Shanghai (2013) |National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2014) |School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015) | K21, Museum of 21st Century Art, D\u00fcsseldorf (2018)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looped video
Duration, 7’48”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Henri Cartier-Bresson took a photograph of a bank run in Shanghai in December 1948: A crowd of people desperate to get their money out of a bank in anticipation of an imminent collapse of the value of money in the lead up to the take-over of Shanghai by the People\u2019s Liberation Army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every bank-run is propelled on the currents of a self-fulfilling prophecy: As people lose confidence in the value of money, they begin withdrawing money from banks which leads to a collapse of a bank\u2019s worth; panic spreads between banks. And so, cause becomes effect becomes cause. The anticipation of the future produces conditions in the present that lead to the anticipated future. Time folds in on itself like a snake biting its own tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In revisiting and re-staging Cartier Bresson\u2019s photograph in Shanghai, Raqs meet the conditions of the self-fulfilling prophecy invoked by the event captured in the original image. Cartier-Bresson\u2019s decisive moment breaks its banks and seeks the custody of other hands. Mid-wived by other eyes and cameras, the image reincarnates as its own breathing and vivid clone, close to where we are today. The memory of one moment of crisis is transposed onto the reading of another. Time folds in on itself, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does history repeat itself, or simply rehearse its moves in anticipation? Can we read chronicles in terms of deferrals and d\u00e9j\u00e0-vu?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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