[Reader-list] [Announcements] Raqs Media Collective : 'There Has Been a Change of Plan'

[Iram Ghufran]

Raqs Media Collective : 'There Has Been a Change of Plan'
(Selected Works 2002-2006)
Nature Morte Gallery, A 1 Neeti Bagh, New Delhi
August 5 - 26, 2006

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Sometimes, adjustments have to be made. Schedules need calibration.  
There are contingencies, questions, obstinate demands, weak excuses,  
strong desires. You return to the city you never left. You pause,  take 
stock. Sit still and let a conversation begin. Maybe?

Around you, aeroplanes sit on wooden platforms in a wilderness like  
widows on a funeral pyre. Clocks measure fatigue, anxiety and modest  
epiphanies across latitudes. A door to nowhere stands obstinately  
against the sky. All your cities are a blur.

"Do you like looking at maps?"

Meanwhile, measures are taken, shoes lost and found, ghost stories  
gather, the city whispers conspiracies to itself, the situation is  
tense but under control. Someone offers you a postcard.

Now: Let's see what happens.

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Raqs Media Collective is pleased to announce its first solo  exhibition 
in Delhi - 'There Has Been A Change of Plan' at Nature  Morte Gallery. 
The exhibition features selected works (2002 - 2006)  in the form of 
cross media installations with networked computers,  objects, postcards, 
video, sound, prints and projections.

Works exhibited include: 'Lost New Shoes', selections from 'A Measure  
of Anacoustic Reason', 'Location (n)', '28.28 N / 77.15 E :: 2001/02  
(Co-Ordinates of Everyday Life, Delhi 2001-2002)', 'Erosion by  
Whispers', 'Preface to a Ghost Story' and 'There Has Been a Change of  
Plan'. (See Details in PDF attatchment with this mail)

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About Raqs Media Collective
www.raqsmediacollective.net

(Excerpt from the Wikipedia Entry on Raqs Media Collective -  
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqs_Media_Collective)

Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by independent media  
practitioners Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata  Sengupta. 
Based in Delhi, their work engages with urban spaces and  global 
circuits, persistently welding a sharp, edgily contemporary  sense of 
what it means to lay claim to the world from the streets of  Delhi. At 
the same time, Raqs articulates an intimately lived  relationship with 
myths and histories of diverse provenances. Raqs  sees its work as 
opening out a series of investigations with image,  sound, software, 
objects, performance, print, text and lately,  curation, that straddle 
different (and changing) affective and  aesthetic registers, expressing 
an imaginative unpacking of questions  of identity and location, a deep 
ambivalence towards modernity and a  quiet but consistent critique of 
the operations of power and property.

In 2001 Raqs co-founded Sarai (www.sarai.net) at the Centre for the  
Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi where they coordinate  
media productions, pursue and administer independent research and  
practice projects and also work as members of the editorial  collective 
of the Sarai Reader series. For Raqs, Sarai is a space  where they have 
the freedom to pursue interdisciplinary and hybrid  contexts for 
creative work and to develop a sustained engagement with  urban space 
and with different forms of media.


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