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| Frieze, Issue 148, June 2012 |
| Read Raqs' Short Essay on the Delhi Art Scene by going to THIS LINK and scrolling down. |
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| Has the Moment of the Contemporary Come and Gone? |
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| Raqs Media Collective with Ravi Sundaram and Daniela Zyman (2012) |
| Read the transcript of the panel discussion hosted by Raqs Media Collective during the Speakers' Forum at India Art Fair 2012 in Delhi by going to the Asia Art Archive's e-journal, "Field Notes" HERE |
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| Grab the Wind |
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| 2011, Visual Essay |
| In Le Journal de La Triennale #3, April 14th 2012, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. See the entire issue HERE.
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| In the Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive |
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| In Lalit Kala Contemporary #52 (Journal), Photography as Art and Practice in India, 2012 |
| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| So, What's New? |
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| 2010 |
| When a familiar visitor returns to the artists studio, the usual question is, “So, what’s new?” And the encounter between the unfamiliar visitor and the artist begins inevitably too within the frame of the sign for “newness”. The artist endures being the “latest discovery” of the nth excitable unfamiliar visitor. |
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