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.

31 January - 28 February, 2014

Mati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi

Participating Artists

Basel Abbas + Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Clark House Initiative, Eyal Weizman + Paulo Tavares, Gauri Gill, Harun Farocki , Hito Steyerl, Ivana Franke, Katarzyna Kozyra, Kendell Geers, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Lu Xing-Hua, Mai-Thu Perret, Nikolaus Hirsch + Michel Müller, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Superflex, Tomás Saraceno, Wanuri Kahiu, Yao Jui-Chung, Akansha Rastogi, Akshata Naik + Barnet Alex Varghese + Jithinlal + Teja Gavankar + Venkataraman Divakar + Vibin George, Alec Shepley, Anagram Architects, Aryakrishnan Ramakrishnan + Karthik KG, Atom Collective, Chandni Arun Narendra, CRIT Studio, Heidi Fichtner, Hemavathy Guha, Himali Singh Soin, Indrani Baruah, Janine Ramlochan, kOSh, Layout Collective, Manuela Ciotti, Naresh Kumar , Naveen Mahantesh, Paribartana Mohanty, Parul Gupta + Gagandeep Singh, Samarjeet Behera, Solomon Benjamin, Sikan Kumar Panda, Surajit Sarkar, Vinay Seth

INSERT2014 brings the sharp edge of global contemporary art to Delhi with an exhibition that focuses on the role of the artist as a generator of ideas, questions and concepts. INSERT2014 is produced by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, in partnership with the Goethe Institut/Max Muller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, Delhi. Raqs Media Collective is the artistic director of INSERT2014.

INSERT2014 unfolds a series of unexpected encounters with contemporary art in the public domain. A central focus will be an exhibition of site-specific and other art works by over twenty critically acclaimed artists, presented at Mati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), from 31 January to 28 February 2014. Works will engage visitors in conversations with the site, the city, and some of the most exciting movements in global contemporary culture. The exhibition also features “New Models for Common Ground” - proposals by artists, practitioners, curators, architects and urbanists that re-imagine the infrastructure for culture in Delhi.

INSERT 2014

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