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News – Raqs Media Collective

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: READING LIGHT

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: READING LIGHT

    Festival d’Automne, Paris
    5 October - 4 November 2012

    This exhibition will be presented in Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic building for the French Communist Party. It takes the form of a set of illuminated signs that use text, typography, light sources and electricity to conjure a renewal of human aspirations.

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: SURJECTION

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: SURJECTION

    The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
    22 September - 4 December 2011

    This exhibition of new work deals with minimal but significant objects. The central image, a palm print from 1859, represents the history of forensic identification.

  • DAYANITA SINGH AND RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE

    DAYANITA SINGH AND RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE

    Paris-Delhi-Bombay
    Centre Pompidou
    25 May - 19 September 2011

    This major exhibition will explore Indian society through the eyes of Indian and French artists. The fruit of an unprecedented Franco-Indian collaboration, _Paris-Delhi-Bombay_ is intended to promote communication between the two cultures, establishing new and lasting links. 

    The exhibition includes images from Dayanita Singh’s photographic project _House of Love_ as well as a specially commissioned film piece by Raqs Media Collective inspired by Jacques Rancière’s book La nuit des prolétaires

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE CAPITAL OF ACCUMULATION

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE CAPITAL OF ACCUMULATION

    Part of Polski Express III - The Promised City
    Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
    25 May - 4 July 2010

    The Capital of Accumulation is a double screen projection whose narrative structure follows Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. The film imagines an economic, political, social and urban history that could have occurred in 20th century Berlin, Mumbai or Warsaw. Weaving together the past and present, fact and fiction to create a compelling story of failure and possibility.

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN FALLING IN LOVE

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN FALLING IN LOVE

    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    2 April - 20 June 2010

    For BALTIC, Raqs will create a new installation that explores ways of life that die and are reborn elsewhere, and where fortunes of both love and labour are framed and dismantled by global forces. Like on-shore sweethearts bidding farewell to men in ships, the world watches its own histories float away.

    The show takes inspiration from archival images of two giant shipbuilding cranes on a voyage to India from the River Tyne. Raqs’ proposition generates an exhibition exploring a global web of wills and longings that sustain life and that can encourage strange intimacies across vast distances.

  • Raqs Media Collective: The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet

    Raqs Media Collective: The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet

    A new commission at Art Now: Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, UK
    4 September - 27 December 2009

    Newly commissioned film installation that combines historical photographs from collections in London and Delhi with video, animation and a soundscape. The work examines how collectivity and anonymity have been represented and how globalisation has contributed to an ongoing crisis of identity and entitlement.

    A prelude film by the artists is available to download at:
    “www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/raqs.shtm”:http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/raqs.shtm