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RAQS Media Collective
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RAQS Media Collective was formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, all independent media artists. However it was only when RAQS integrated with the Sarai Media Lab in 2000 that it gained recognition as a contemporary Indian art collective. RAQS is a Persian, Arabic and Urdu word for the state of consciousness that whirling dervishes enter into when they whirl. It also stands as the acronym for ‘Rarely...
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RAQS Media Collective was formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, all independent media artists. However it was only when RAQS integrated with the Sarai Media Lab in 2000 that it gained recognition as a contemporary Indian art collective. RAQS is a Persian, Arabic and Urdu word for the state of consciousness that whirling dervishes enter into when they whirl. It also stands as the acronym for ‘Rarely Asked Questions’, the unearthing of which forms the basis of the collective’s artistic endeavour.
Trained as documentary film makers, the three core members of RAQS play the varying roles of curators, editors, publishers, artists and media practitioners. Deeply connected with the politics of the urban, of globalization and the seeming dissolution of international boundaries, RAQS investigates spaces that have often been overlooked in Indian art. Operating through a unique mixture of artistic styles and genres, RAQS manipulates the dynamics of the local and the cultural as well as those of physical space, form and technique. Often referred to as ‘nomadic’, due to the flexibility of their artistic practice, RAQS transcends most of the limitations generally associated with art, exploring spaces much beyond its traditional scope. History, power, location, and identity are generally the most intriguing themes that are navigated by this collective.
RAQS Media Collective has exhibited all over the world. These include ‘Lightbox’ at Tate Britain, London, in 2009; ‘Escapement’ at Frith Street Gallery, London, in 2009; ‘Decomposition’ at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, in 2009; ‘There has been a Change of Plan’ at Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, in 2006; ‘The Impostor in the Waiting Room’ at Bose Pacia, New York, in 2004; and ‘Co-Ordinates’ at Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels, in 2003. Their work has also been a part of 'Indian Highway' at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, in 2009; 'Chalo India' at the Mori Museum, Tokyo, in 2008; ‘The Rest of Now’ at Manifesta 7, Italy, in 2008; 'Not Only Possible but Also Necessary' at the Istanbul Biennial in 2007; ‘Janken: The Power of Chance' at the Ogaki Biennale of New Media Art in 2006; 'Icon: India Contemporary' at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005; ‘Do you Believe in Reality?’ at the Taipei Beinnial in 2004; and 'Documenta 11', Kassel, in 2002.
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Education
Founded
1992
Born
1965 Jeebesh Bagchi, New Delhi
1969 Monica Narula, New Delhi
1968 Shuddhabrata Sengupta, New Delhi
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Corrections to the First Draft...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Corrections to the First Draft of History', Frith Street Gallery Golden Square, London
2014 'The Capital of Accumulation', The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2014 'An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale', Project Space Plus at Lincoln School of Art & Design
2014 'A Sublime Economy of Means', Tranzit Display, Prague
2014 'Raqs Media Collective - It's possible because it's possible', Centro de Arte dos de Mayos (CA2M), Madrid
2013 'Extra Time', Chronus Art Centre, M50, Shanghai
2013 'Black Box: Raqs Media Collective', Baltimore Museum of Art
2012-13 'A Phrase, Not a Word', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012-13 Hostetter Gallery at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2012 'The Great Bare Mat & Constellation', Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2012 ' Primary Education of the Autodidact', Audain Gallery, Vancouver
2012 'An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale', Photographer's Gallery, London
2012 'Reverse Engineering', Nature Morte, Berlin
2012 'A Phrase, Not A Word', Nature Morte, Delhi
2010 'The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet', e-flux, New York
2010 'The Capital of Accumulation', Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU) Theatre, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2010 'The Things That Happen When Falling in Love', BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2009 ‘Lightbox’, Tate Britain, London
2009 ‘Escapement’, Frith Street Gallery, London
2009 ‘Oracle and Heirophants’, Ikon, Birmingham
2009 ‘Decomposition’, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
2006 ‘The KD Vyas Correspondence, Vol.1’, Museum of Communication, Frankfurt
2006 ‘The Anthropometry of the Soul’, iniVA, London [Performance]
2006 ‘There has been a Change of Plan’, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘The Impostor in the Waiting Room’, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2004 ‘The Wherehouse’, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
2004 ‘The Listening Room’, Performance, with and compamy & co, Das TAT, Frankfurt
2003 ‘Co-Ordinates’, Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'Highlights and Classics', Centro de Arte dos de Mayos (CA2M), Madrid
2014 'Silver', Frith Street Gallery Soho Square, London
2014 'Install Hope', Nordstans Shopping Centre, Gotheburg; Landvetter Airport, Gotheburg
2014 'Waiting for the Wind', Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata
2014 'do it', Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town)
2014 'Spaghetti Harvest', Project 88, Mumbai
2013 'Gwangju Folly II/ Auto-didact's Transport', Gwangju Metro
2013 'Uncomfortably Numb: Investigating the Uncanny in Contemporary Times', Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
2013 'Poses and Views', Nature Morte, Berlin
2013 ' Aesthetic Bind | Phantomata', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2013 'Off Modern: Ruins of the Future, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2013 'LINES OF CONTROL: PARTITION AS A PRODUCTIVE SPACE', Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
2013 'Words Don't Come Easily, Centre for International Light Art, Unna, Germany
2013 'Art of Memory, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm + Royal Observatory, Stockholm
2013 ' Momentous Times', Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry, Northern Ireland
2013 ' Real DMZ , Cheorwon-gun + Artsonje Center (seoul)
2013 'Weiner Festwochen', Program Book
2013 'Host and Guest', Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013 'The Multitude Art Prize', Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2013 ' Theo.do.lites', Institute for Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2012 'Social Fabric', presented by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) at Rivington Place; Londs Konsthall, London
2012 'Cynical Love: Life in the Everyday', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2012 'Slipping Through The Cracks', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2012 'The Contemporary Sultanate', presented by Exhibit 320 at One Style Mile, Olive, New Delhi
2012 'Collecion VI', Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
2012 ' In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art', The Drawing Centre, New York
2012 ' Reakt: Olhares e Processos', Guimaraes, Portugal
2011 'Words: A Users Manual', Exhibit 320, New Delhi
2011 'In You is the Illusion of Each Day', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 'Conundrum', Bose Pacia, New York
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'India is Now….', Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
2010 'This Is Unreal', Experimenter, Kolkata
2010 'Dorm', The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2010 'Untitled Project - I - THINGAMAJIGS', Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi
2009 'Living of the Grid', Anant Art Centre, New Delhi
2009 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2009 'India 3: New Delhi- Republic of Illusions', Galerie Krinzinger, Wein
2009 ‘Whose Exhibition is This?’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2009-08 ‘A Question of Evidence’, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2008 ‘The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2008 ‘Collection as Aleph’, Kunst Museum Graz
2008 ‘Territorial Phantom’, Netherlands Media Art Institute
2008 ‘Neighborhood Secrets’, Stavanger/Sandnes
2007 ‘India: New Installations’, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
2007 ‘Shooting Back’, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2007 ‘Touring Show’, Rhizome.Org at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
2007 ‘World Factory’, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2007 ‘Art of the Possible’, Lund Konsthalle, Sweden
2006 ‘Dictionary of War’, Graz
2006 ‘Academy: Learning from Art', MuHKA, Antwerp
2006 ‘Utopia Station Free Speech', Davis Centre, Princeton University, New Jersey
2006 Public Moment, Seoul
2006 ‘Sub-contingent’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2006-07 ‘The Backroom’, San Francisco (New Langton Arts and San Francisco Camerawork), Los Angeles (Culver City), Mexico City (University Claustro de Sor Juana), Paris (Kadist Art Foundation)
2005 ‘Linked: Connectivity and Exchange', Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2006 ‘Building Sight’, On Difference #2, WÃrttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2006 ‘Dark Places’, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California
2006-05 Digital Discourse, Malta
2006,05,04 ‘Edge of Desire’, Perth, New York, Berkeley, New Delhi
2005 ‘Cultural Futures', Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Auckland
2005 ‘Citizen', London, Leicester, Belfast
2005 ‘Ephemeral Cities: A Project Space', Deptford X, London
2005 ‘Building Ghost Transmissions’, Cubitt Gallery & Studios, London
2005 World Information City, Bangalore
2004 ‘Adaptations’, Apex Art Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Adaptations’, Fredrecianum, Kassel
2004 ‘Globalia’, Frauen Museum, Bonn
2004 Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo
2003 ‘Georgaphy and the Politics of Mobility’, Generali Foundation, Vienna
2003 Image Asia, Copenhagen
2003 ‘How Latitudes Become Forms’, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
2002 ‘Invisible Cities’, Belfast
2002 ‘Emocao Art.Ficial’, Itau Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo
2002 ‘Kingdom of Piracy’, Ars Electronica, Linz
Participations
2015 'Postdate: Photography and Inherited History of India', organized collaboratively by the San Jose Museum of Art and the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
2014 'The Jerusalem Show VII', Khalidi Library Cultural Foundation
2014 'Helsinki Photo Biennial', The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2014 Bucharest Biennial, Pavilion Centre, Bucharest
2014 ' Eva International, Ireland's Biennial - Agitationism', Limerick City Gallery of Art
2013 'Aesthetic Bind | Citizen Artist: forms of address', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2013 Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah
2013 'Benzine: the energies of your mind', La Triennale, Milan
2012-13 'The 20 Year Archive', as part of 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2012 Benin Biennale, Benin
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 'Lines of Control', co-organized by Green Cardamom at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art Of India', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 'Medi(t)ation', 2011 Asian Art Biennial, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 'Imagine Being Here Now', 6th Momentum Biennial, Norway
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2010 'Place.Time.Play: India-China Contemporary Art', West Heavens Exhibition Project, presented by Shanghai International Culture Association, Institute of Visual Culture (China Academy of Art) at Shanghai Art Museum Lecture Hall, Shanghai
2010 'There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In', part of 29th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 'Indian Highway: Contemporary Indian Video Art', Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland also part of 'Steps Away from Oblivion', an Exhibition within Exhibition as curator
2010 'The River Project', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2008 ‘The Rest of Now’, Manifesta 7, Sud Tyrol /Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
2008 ‘Scenarios’, Manifesta 7, Sud Tyrol /Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
2008 'Indian Highway', Serpentine Gallery, London
2008 'Chalo India', Mori Museum, Tokyo
2008 'The Santhal Family', MUHKA, Antwerp
2007 'Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art', Kunstmuseum Berne
2007 'Urban Manners', Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2007 'Not Only Possible but Also Necessary', Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2007 'The Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves', ZKM, Karlsruhe
2006 ‘Janken: The Power of Chance', Ogaki Biennale of New Media Art, Ogaki
2006 ‘Zones of Contact’, Sydney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005 'Icon: India Contemporary', 51st Venice Biennale, Venice
2005 'Beyond', 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou
2004 International 04, Tate Gallery Café, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2004 ‘Do you Believe in Reality?’, Taipei Beinnial, Taipei
2004 ISEA04, Tallinn
2003 'The Structure of Survival', 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
2003 'Utopia Station', 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
2002 'Documenta 11', Kassel
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