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Raqs Media Collective
Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
"Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by independent media practitioners Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Based in Delhi, their work engages with urban spaces and global circuits, persistently welding a sharp, edgily contemporary sense of what it means to lay claim to the world from the streets of Delhi. At the same time, Raqs articulates an intimately lived relationship with myths and histories of diverse provenances. Raqs sees its work as opening out a series of investigations with image, sound, software, objects, performance, print, text and lately, curation, that straddle different (and changing) affective and aesthetic registers, expressing an imaginative unpacking of questions of identity and location, a deep ambivalence towards modernity and a quiet but consistent critique of the operations of power and property."
Members of the collective are resident at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi, where they work on projects interpreting the city and urban experience; make cross-media works; collaborate on the development of software; design and conduct workshops; administer discussion lists; edit publications; write, research and co-ordinate several research projects and public activities of Sarai.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2007
- Building Sight, Watermans Gallery, London [Curatorial Project]
- 2006
- The KD Vyas Correspondence Vol.1, Museum of Communication, Frankfurt
The Anthropometry of the Soul, iniVA, London [ Lecture Performance]
There has been a Change of Plan, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
- 2004
- The Impostor in the Waiting Room, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
The Wherehouse, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
The Listening Room [Performance, with andcompamy&co], Das TAT, Frankfurt
- 2003
- Co-Ordinates, Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Exhibitions
- 2007
- Horn Please, Kunstmuseum Berne
Urban Manners, HANGAR BICOCCA, Milan
Istanbul Biennial
India: New Installations, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Shooting Back, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
The Thermocline of Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Touring Show, Rhizome.Org at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
World Factory, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
Art of the Possible, Lund Konsthalle, Sweden
- 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 (KadistArt Foundation)
- 2006
- Dictionary of War, Graz
Ogaki Biennale of New Media Art, Ogaki
Academy: Learning from Art, MuHKA, Antwerp
Public Moment, Seoul
Sub-contingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Zones of Contact, Sydney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Utopia Station, Princeton
"Building Sight", On Difference #2, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
"Dark Places", Santa Monica Museum of Art, California
- 2006 - 05
- Digital Discourse, Malta
- 2006-04
- Edge of Desire, Perth, New York, Berkeley, New Delhi
- 2005
- Linked: Connectivity and Exchange, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"Cultural Futures", AUT, Auckland
Icon: India Contemporary, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice
Beyond, 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou
Citizen, London, Leicester, Belfast
Ephemeral Cities: A Project Space, Deptford X, London
Building Ghost Transmissions, Cubitt Gallery & Studios, London
World Information City, Bangalore
- 2004
- International 04, Tate Gallery Café, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
ISEA04, Tallinn
Adaptations, Apex Art Gallery New York
Adaptations, Fredrecianum, Kassel
Do you Believe in Reality?, Taipei Beinnial 2004, Taipei
Frauen Museum, Bonn
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo
- 2003
- The Structure of Survival, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Georgaphy and the Politics of Mobility, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Image Asia, Copenhagen
How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
- 2002
- Emocao Art.Ficial, Itau Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo
Kingdom of Piracy, Ars Electronica, Linz
Belfast Festival at Queen's, Belfast
Documenta 11, Kassel
Raqs Media Collective is based in Delhi, India