Blaffer Art Museum welcomes Raqs Media Collective to Houston for a two-week residency in advance of the group exhibition Time / Image, opening September 2015. Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) have been variously described as artists, curators, editors and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events, locates them along the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory — often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters.
They live and work in Delhi, based at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2000. They are members of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series. Founded in 1992, Raqs Media Collective have had solo exhibitions at the Chronos Art Center in Shanghai, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Photographers' Gallery and Frith Street Gallery in London, Nature Morte in Berlin, and many other venues in Delhi, Toronto, Paris, Mumbai, New York, Warsaw, Brussels and London. Their work has been featured in dozens of international group exhibitions, including the 2012 Benin Biennale, Manifesta 9, Lines of Control, The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, the 2010 Sao Paulo Biennale, Experimental Geography, The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, Utopia Station, How Latitudes Become Forms, and Documenta 11.
The talk is held in the Freed Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.