Artists Groups & Collectives

Raqs Media Collective

The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs. They make contemporary art, have made films, curated exhibitions, edited books, staged events, collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers and theatre directors and have founded processes that have left deep impacts on contemporary culture in India. Raqs (pron. rux) follows its self declared imperative of 'kinetic contemplation' to produce a trajectory that is restless in terms of the forms and methods that it deploys even as it achieves a consistency of speculative procedures.

The Raqs Media Collective was founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Raqs remains closely involved with the Sarai program at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (www.sarai.net), an initiative they co-founded in 2000.

Raqs Media Collective is based in New Delhi, India.

WORK

Raqs Media Collective
An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale
Looped video projection of an archived photographi
2011

Raqs Media Collective
Strikes at Time
2 synchronized video projections with sound
2011

Raqs Media Collective
Surface Tension Studies
Thirteen giclée prints on fine art baryta paper
2010

ESSAYS

Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities

by Raqs Media Collective

1. On Counting

In the preface to the first, 1888, edition of Was Sind und Was Sollen die Zahlen (The Nature and Meaning of Numbers), Franz Dedekind the Mathematician - Philosopher says: “Aei O Anthropos Arithmetozoi”, i.e. “Man is always Counting”.

Whenever we count,

Raqs Media Collective

Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities

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