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Raqs Media Collective | |
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 Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta | |
| Website | https://raqsmediacollective.net/ |
Raqs Media Collective (founded in 1992 in New Delhi, India) is an artist collective formed by Monica Narula (b.1969), Jeebesh Bagchi (b.1965), and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (b.1968). Raqs Media Collective works with documentary filmmaking, new media installations, performance art, research, critical writing and curation. They explore themes of identity, location, power, and history.[1]
Early Work
[edit]Raqs Media Collective members all met and graduated from the Anwar Jamal Kidwai Mass Communication and Research Center at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. Their first collaboration was a 15-minute fiction film titled Half the Night Left, the Universe to Comprehend, created during a film workshop in Delhi[2]. They later assisted Pankaj Butalia’s documentary about widows in Vrindavan.[1]
In 1997–1998, Raqs produced Growing Up, a 13-part television documentary series for Doordarshan’s Channel 3. The series explored the childhoods of prominent figures, including artists, writers, and performers such as Krishen Khanna, and Arpana Caur, connecting their early experiences to their later work.[2]
Artistic and Curatorial Work
[edit]- 2026, The Time is Never Ripe, solo exhibition, Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation, Leh, India.[3]
- 2026, Disobedience Archive: Canopy for Broken Time, solo exhibition, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland.[4][5]
- 2025, Cavalcade, solo exhibition, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago, USA.[6]
- 2025, Wayfaring Ways To Be, solo exhibition, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong.[7]
- 2024, Come Undone, solo exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK.[8]
- 2023, 1980 in Parallax, solo exhibition, Cosmic House, London, UK.[9]
- 2021, Hungry for Time, curators, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.[10]
- 2020, Afterglow, artistic directors, Yokohama Triennale, Japan.[11]
- 2018, Not Yet At Ease, solo exhibition, Firstsite, Colchester, UK.[12]
- 2018, Provisions for Everybody, AV Festival, Newcastle, UK.
- 2017, Twilight Language, solo exhibition, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK.[13][14]
- 2016, Why Not Ask Again, curators, 11th Shanghai Biennale, China.[15]
- 2014, Asmayavali / Untimely Calendar, solo exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India.[16][17]
- 2013, Performa 13, participating artists, 5th Performa Biennale, New York, USA.[18]
- 2008, The Rest of Now, co-curators, Manifesta 7, Italy.[19]
- 2002, Documenta11, participating artists, 11th Documenta, Kassel, Germany.[20]
Major Works
[edit]- Cavalcade, (2025). 40-minute film, exploring human and non-human forms of sentience.[21]
- All, Humans, (2023). LED video sculpture and permanent public artwork located at the Department of Linguistics and Cultural Studies on the Westend Campus of Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.[22]
- The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone, (2023). 25-minute video, follows a bicyclist stuck in a time loop in 1980.[23]
- The Capital of Accumulation, (2010). 50-minute video diptych about cities, capitalism and 20th century history, taking place in Warsaw, Berlin, and Mumbai.[24]
Sarai
[edit]In 2000, Raqs Media Collective co-founded the Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi, together with Ravi Sundaram and Ravi Vasudevan. An interdisciplinary platform for research and practice, it explores topics such as urbanization, media, and digital cultures.[25] The program’s initiatives include the ‘Cybermohalla’ project[26], other independent fellowship programmes, and a range of conferences, workshops, and performances, while also producing regular publications, including the Sarai Reader series, graphic novels, Trickster City[27], and researcher broadsheets, as well as practice-based works emerging from its fellowship projects and Media Lab.[28]
External Links
[edit]Official Website - https://www.raqsmediacollective.net/
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Raqs Media Collective | Contemporary Art | MAP Academy". Impart. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- 1 2 "Why the Raqs Media Collective's practice is more than the sum of its parts". caravanmagazine.in. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ Saraswat-Satpathy, Kriti (2026-08-19). "A contemporary art exhibition comes to life in a 17th-century structure in Leh". Architectural Digest India. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time)". Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ Teszler, Sonja (2026-03-05). "Disobedience Archive Rewrites the Record". Frieze. No. The Venice Issue. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "The Neubauer Collegium". The Neubauer Collegium. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Raqs Media Collective: Wayfaring Ways To Be - Hanart TZ Gallery". Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Raqs Media Collective | 22 Mar - 4 May 2024". Frith Street Gallery. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Raqs Media Collective: 1980 In Parallax, Exhibitions, The Cosmic House". The Cosmic House, 1980 in parallax.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Hungry for Time. An invitation to epistemic disobedience with Raqs Media Collective, in the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna". Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Archived from the original on 2026-06-10. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "AFTERGLOW - Yokohama Triennale 2020". Yokohama Triennale 2020 “Afterglow” (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "1418 NOW 2018 | Raqs Media Collective - Not Yet At Ease". Firstsite. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language | Whitworth Art Gallery". www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, TWILIGHT LANGUAGE". The White Review. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "11th Shanghai Biennale, "Why Not Ask Again" - Criticism". e-flux. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi". ngmaindia.gov.in. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "Raqs Media Collective| A Retrospective Exhibition | LBB". LBB, Delhi-NCR. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "Raqs Media Collective | Performa 13". Project 88. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "manifesta7". www.manifesta7.it. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "Documenta11". documenta. 2002-06-08. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "The Neubauer Collegium". The Neubauer Collegium. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "HfG Offenbach". hfg-offenbach.de. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ Web, Raqs (2023-04-06). "The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone". Works Raqs Media Collective. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "The Capital of Accumulation. 2010. Directed by Raqs Media Collective | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Sarai". Embroidered Digital Commons. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "Cybermohalla Hub". Sternberg Press. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ Liang, Lawrence (2010-03-01). "Trickster City". KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006. Retrieved 2026-09-15.
- ↑ "About". s a r a i. Retrieved 2026-09-15.