[Nettime-ro] [FW: via Art&Education]_Raqs Media Collective: As Transient as a Whale

[stefan rusu <suhebator@gmail.com>]

03/25/09[image: artandeducation.net]
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<http://www.aaa.org.hk>





*Asia Art Archive*

*Raqs Media Collective:*
*Lecture performance
& In situ installation*

*AAA International Residency*
http://www.aaa.org.hk

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*As Transient as a Whale
Lecture-Performance*
Hong Kong Art Centre
Thursday, 26 March, 6.30-8.00pm

*Decomposition
In situ installation*
Asia Art Archive
Opens Monday, 30 March


In conclusion of Raqs Media Collective's residency at Asia Art Archive, Hong
Kong, March 2009:

A city forgets but an archive grows. For the last few weeks, the Raqs Media
Collective's time in Hong Kong has been spent in the shadow of the vanished
walls of Kowloon Walled City and between the shelves of Asia Art Archive.
The transience of this sojourn has inaugurated new strands in the
collective's investigations into the memory and amnesia, persistence and
erasure, of streets, walls and documents.

They will present the results of their foray into Hong Kong in the form of a
lecture performance titled 'As Transient as a Whale', with images, research
notes, film fragments and stories of lost whales and found objects.

The lecture performance annotates an in-situ installation at Asia Art
Archive titled 'Decomposition'. The installation, which uses found poetry
and accidental discoveries in the Archive, is a playful gesture of
appreciation of the labour of the archivist.


*Raqs Media Collective* was formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula,
and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The Collective is based in Delhi and works at
Sarai, a program of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an
initiative they co-founded in 2001.

Their work takes the form of installations, video, photography, image-text
collages, media objects, performances, and encounters. They cross
contemporary art practice with historical and philosophical speculation,
research and theory.

Raqs has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events
including Documenta 11 (2002), the Venice Biennale (2003, 2005), the
Guangzhou Triennial (2005), and the Istanbul Biennial (2007). Their writings
have also been published extensively. They curated "The Rest of Now" in
Bolzano/Bozen and co-curated "Scenarios" for Manifesta 7, Italy.

*AAA's International Residency*
Over the past eight years AAA has built one of the world's most
comprehensive collections of material for contemporary art with a regional
focus. By bringing together this material, our aim is to offer exciting
opportunities for new interpretations.

For this reason, AAA has established an annual residency program in Hong
Kong for artists, critics and curators working in the field. The goal of the
residency is to encourage new readings of the physical material in the
archive, to offer individuals the chance to work with material outside their
usual comfort zones, and to support interesting ideas and projects around
the idea of the 'archive'.

*Founded in 2000, AAA is a dynamic organization with the mission to
facilitate the exploration learning and understanding of contemporary art
from the region with a publicly accessible library and archive collection of
over 23,000 items of material, public programs, research projects and our
website.


Asia Art Archive*
11/F Hollywood Center,
233 Hollywood Road,
Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2815 1112
Fax: (852) 2815 0032
info@aaa.org.hk
http://www.aaa.org.hk

AAA's International Residency program is generously sponsored by Sovereign
Art Foundation and supported by home2home.
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