“If you twist and fold a ribbon of space, what was inside a moment ago could end up as the outside. When a surface cracks, the crack is the surface. The outside is as much within something as without”. (Capital of Accumulation, Raqs Media Collective, 2010). To look within is to turn oneself inside out. This twisted fold is the basis of all thought, and of every experience or sensation. Twisted Fold is the auto-didactic log of a continuing journey undertaken in order to understand the flux of relationships between space, time, selves and other that Raqs takes on board as part of its daily practice. Taken together, these turns enact a provisional response to the question - ‘When is Space?’ which undergirds this exhibition. Space happens when thought twists and time folds. Twisted Fold takes the form of series of notes, observations, questions, drawings, speculations and aphorisms taken from the triangulated consciousness and collective unconscious of Raqs.
RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE
Team: Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Aarushi Surana, Shamsher Ali
Raqs Media Collective follows its self-declared imperative of ‘kinetic contemplation’ to produce a trajectory that is restless in its forms and methods, yet concise with the infra procedures that it invents. The collective makes contemporary art, edits books, curates exhibitions, and stages situations. It has collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers, curators, and theatre directors, and has made films. It co-founded Sarai—the inter-disciplinary and incubatory space at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi—in 2001, where it initiated processes that have left deep impact on contemporary culture in India.
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- When is Space? In An Exhibition on Contemporary Architecture Commissioned by Jawahar Kala Kendra, Edited by Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty. Jaipur: Jawahar Kala Kendra, 2018.