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Thicket<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Solo Exhibition<\/strong><\/em>
Tate Exchange (December 14-20, 2016)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thicket <\/em>is a concentration of living matter. In forests, gardens, and fields, thickets rise where different plant species find it possible to thrive together in a wild celebration of life itself. Conversations too can have thickets; points of intersection of lines of force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through an interactive, participatory installation, Raqs weaves three parallel actions into a living \u201cthicket\u201d of lines, voices, and readings that unfold across space, time, and attention. Thicket is realised through three actions, titled ‘Anybody, Everybody, Make a Mark’, ‘The Unbroken Reading’ and ‘Memorophilia’.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anybody, Everybody, Make A Mark<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anybody, Everybody, Make a Mark<\/em> is an invitation to create the setting within which \u2018Thicket\u2019 is realized, as an immersive, participatory activity where people mark the floors and walls and windows of the Tate Exchange space with lines with tape.Here, tape, walls, floors, windows and every visitor’s hand become drawing tools. The film, ‘Diagram for the Last International’, which provides both inspiration and echo, projects line-patterns coded from the conversation between Raqs\u2019 three computers and the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anybody, Everybody, Make a Mark<\/em> turns the space into a “drawing room” within which people\u2019s actions perform exchanges of thoughts and ideas, and find moments of response. At the end, a \u2018thicket\u2019 of lines will emerge in the space, and it is this that will act as a backdrop and container for further actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unbroken Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raqs invites people to undertake an Unbroken Reading<\/em> over several hours sampling and remixing inner and outer landscapes. Placed on a table set for two, selected texts can be picked up, read, and returned, as one voice passes the baton on to the next. Unbroken Reading<\/em> invites the voice of the public to mark time, and put breath into the written word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Memorophilia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve people at a time will gather to talk through what it means to remember, and what it takes to forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants receive a book – made and designed by Raqs – of fragments from their wide-ranging repertory of readings, concepts and ideas. These are taken from literature, philosophy, science, poetry, and more. The \u2018memorophiliacs\u2019 will be given an opportunity to have familiarised themselves with this extensive chapbook (a small paper-covered booklet, typically containing poems or fiction). During the conversation, which Raqs will lead, participants will read different \u2018entries\u2019 from it, in response to the last reader. Each reading will be prompted by the thought, \u201cand this reminds me\u201d, and will be followed by a free-wheeling conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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