80 www.libwrwosw..ulnibamro.sm.uxnam.mx Folio 020+ Raqs Media Collect ive. Está escr ito porque está escr ito It´s Written Because It´s Written 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 Authors: Raqs Media Collective, Cuauhtémoc Medina Language: Spanish and English First edition, 2014 Editors: muac-unam Editorial Coordinator: Ekaterina Alvarez Romero Extension: 256 pages Format: 8.66 in x 6.3 in MSRP: $11.95 USD ISBN: 978-84-451-3491-7 Target: University community, academics and interested public in contemporary art. It’s Written Because It’s Written is a compilation of ten essays, authored throughout a decade, by Raqs Media Collective. These essays, which are grouped into five sections —On Art; On Practice; On Time; On Curation; and On Raqs—, are a testimony of a poetic and theoretic practice that constantly challenges commonplace ideas about art, time and politics, in one of the most original contributions to modern thought. With an epilogue by Cuauhtémoc Medina, these texts contribute to a double task: “Build bridges and highways between practices. Dismantle walls that enclose them...” Contemporary Art
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