Folio 020 Raqs Media Collect ive. Es posible porque es posible It’s Possible Because It’s Possible The exhibition It’s Possible Because It’s Possible by Raqs Media Collective poses a long-term reflection on the emergence of what the collective has dubbed “political contemplation,” asking what personal and social spheres pertain to the contemporary, and how to act on them. The project results from a collaboration between the ca2m (Madrid, 2014), the muac (Mexico City, 2015) and the Fundación proa (Buenos Aires, 2015), which began as a seminar called The Constant Baptism of Recently Created Things, organized in 2013 by Raqs Media Collective in Móstoles, Region of Madrid. Raqs Media Collective Is a group based in New Delhi, India, created in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi (1966), Monica Narula (1969) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (1968). Raqs is a think tank that takes aesthetics as a point of departure for social and political reflection. Their name originally referred both to the Persian, Arabic and Urdu word for a state of meditation, and to the acronym “rarely asked questions”, raqs. The collective’s initial interests focused on documentary film, creating films like in the eye of the fish, present imperfect, future tense and growing up. Playing with multiple roles, the collective acts as artists, curators, and, as in their own words, philosophical agents provocateurs. Currently, the collective produces installations and performances, as well as editorial and curatorial projects and educational programs from different disciplines, such as sociology, geography, mathematics, industrial design, and urban planning. Always playing with an imprecise poetics, Raqs Media Collective analyzes the past, thinks the present, and imagines the future. Other publications: Raqs Media Collective, Extra time, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2014. Raqs Media Collective, The Surface of Each Day: Questions for Cosmonauts, 2008 Raqs Media Collective, Seepage, Sternberg Press, 2010. Raqs Media Collective, Time book, One Star Press, 2009 Raqs Media Collective, The rest of now, Manifesta 7 Companion, Silvana Editoriale, 2008 Artists: Raqs Media Collective Authors: Ferran Barenblit, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Raqs Media Collective Editors: muac-unam / CA2M / Fundación PROA Editorial Coordinator: Ekaterina Alvarez Romero Language: Spanish and English First edition, 2014 Extension: 79 pages Format: 8.66 in x 6.3 in MSRP: $7.95 USD ISBN: 978-607-02-5565-6 Target: University community, academics and interested public in contemporary art. 79 MUAC UNAM Foreign Rights 2015
UNAM Foreign Rights 2015
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