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| Space is a Doubt |
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| Interview of Raqs Media Collective by Silvia Calvarese |
| We are never out of place, wherever we may be. Read HERE. |
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| In the Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive |
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| 2011 |
| The surface the photograph has to be seen as a contested terrain. Appearing on it, or disappearing from it, is not a matter of visual whimsy, but an actual index of power and powerlessness. |
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| Six Nervous Fragments |
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| In 'Seeing With Eyes Closed', eds Elena Agudio, Ivana Franke, Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin, 2011 |
| The contribution draws on some texts, conversations and images. It attempts to invoke our perplexity, amazement and anxiousness about the neurological processes and its examination. |
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| Premonitory Machines |
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| by Philip Monk, April 2011 |
| More than just triangulated between its tenses of past, present, and future, time itself is fractured. Premonition haunts time and disrupts its unbroken smooth flow forward. Progress is not (self)-assured. Time here rather is achronological. The future that beckons us with its fluctuating video glare from the far wall of the gallery is not what was past promised by the progress of history. |
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| Off-Modern: A Conversation with Raqs |
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| With Moinak Biswas, for humanitiesunderground, August 2011 |
| Let’s think momentarily of modernism as a four lane highway, let’s say – a ‘national highway’ that claims to take you from A to B, and then let us imagine a few tracks off the high road – that meander alongside, and cross the highway, some-times in a disorderly, zigzag fashion...We see our journeys taking place sometimes on the high road, and often, when we need to get to destinations that the highway ignores, on the off-tracks. |
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| Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities |
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| In "Transit/Stasis: Negotiating Movement in the City", a publication accompanying the exhibition by the SFAI, 2011. |
| Whenever we count, we end up with additions, with something more than a singularity. And then we add additions together. We couple; we multiply. When we look at a singularity long enough, then, up close, things begin to fall away from the unit’s seemingly monadic sovereignty. Subtraction and division yield a carnival of decimals, a rebellion of fractions. Even the solitude of one is made up of one thirds and halves and quarters and other, forever other, infinities... |
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| A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time |
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| Public Lecture, Städelschule, Frankfurt, May 2011 |
| Does one time fit all? Can time be equally sliced? Can we trade time? Can we make ourselves understood when we talk to each other in different dialects of time? Do we all have covert and secret clocks that have their alarms go off at odd moments?... These questions... acquire a sharpness and tang in today's world, where, in the aftermath of economic catastrophes, we are all groping for other ways of measuring the worth of the world and our time in it. |
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| A Letter to Amália Jyran, Who Will be Fifty Four in 2061 CE |
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| The 6th Momentum Biennial, 2011 |
| in 50 years time, in 2061, a time capsule buried on the grounds of the Alby Estate in the city of Moss, in the Østfold county of Norway, will hopefully be opened, and if and when it is opened, our insertions in the handsome aluminium box that came parcelled to us only the other day from the Momentum exhibition at the Nordic Biennial of 2011 will be made public. |
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| Words in Art: India’s Raqs Media Collective see all words as equal |
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| In 'Art Radar Asia: Contemporary art trends and news from Asia and beyond', January 2011 |
| Raqs Media Collective is the first to be featured as part of our new words-in-art series. In this interview, Raqs talks about how they use written language to express their particular views and thoughts within their new media works. Read HERE. |
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| Now and Elsewhere |
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| In e-flux journal #12, Jan-Feb 2011 |
| It is tempting to think this dual obstinacy—to face the storm and not be blown away—as an acute reticence that is at the same time a refusal to either run away from or be carried away by the strong winds of history, of time itself. |
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