The Raqs Media Collective

Name: The Raqs Media Collective
Country: India
Bio: The Raqs Media Collective was founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Raqs follows its self-declared imperative of ‘kinetic contemplation’ to produce a artistic trajectory that is restless in terms of the forms and methods that it deploys even as it achieves a consistency of speculative procedures. They enjoy playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs. They have produced art works, curated exhibitions, edited books, staged events and collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers and theatre directors. In 2001 Raqs co-founded, with Ravi Vasudevan and Ravi Sundaram, the Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. Raqs were co-curators of Manifesta 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art (2008).