Raqs Media Collective
dal 19/9/2006 al 24/10/2006
Segnalato da
19/9/2006
Raqs Media Collective
Museum fur Kommunikation, Frankfurt
Curated by Monique Behr, their most recent work KD Vyas Correspondence: Vol. 1 is an installation consisting of 18 audio-visual stations. It documents in fragments correspondence between Raqs Media Collective and KD Vyas. KD Vyas is regarded as having dictated the Mahabharata, passed down by word of mouth over the centuries, to the elephant God Ganesha about 2000 years ago.
KD Vyas Correspondence Vol. 1
“There is nothing new. Whatever is there is there in the Mahabharata, and whatever is not there in the Mahabharata is not worth the effort". - Raqs Media Collective, 2006
For the first time the installation KD Vyas Correspondence: Vol. 1. by Raqs Media Collective will be exhibited in the Museum fur Kommunikation in Frankfurt.
Raqs Media Collective is a group of media practitioners consisting of Monica Narula, Jebeesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta who are based in Delhi. They are concerned with the effects of globalization on urban structures and living conditions. Since their participation in the documenta 11 in Kassel and the Biennale in Venice (2003+2005), they are now known to a larger international audience. They are co-founders of Sarai, a programme for interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban culture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi.
Curated by Monique Behr, their most recent work KD Vyas Correspondence: Vol. 1 is an installation consisting of 18 audio-visual stations. It documents in fragments correspondence between Raqs Media Collective and KD Vyas. KD Vyas is regarded as having dictated the Mahabharata, passed down by word of mouth over the centuries, to the elephant God Ganesha about 2000 years ago. The important epic of Hindu culture delivered in 18 parts is still relevant today. It is arranged in such a way that one story leads to another. In the KD Vyas Correspondence: Vol. 1. this idea of linked authorship plays a fundamental role reflecting at various levels the daily life in a media age.
The exhibition is being shown as part of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006 - Guest of Honour India.
In collaboration with Raqs Media Collective architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Muller developed a specific space that follows the complex nodal structure of KD Vyas Correspondence: Vol. 1 and operates with its given parameters.
Curator: Monique Behr
Opening: September 20th, 2006, 7 p.m.
Museum fur Kommunikation, Frankfurt
Schaumainkai 53 - Frankfurt am Main
Tues - Fri 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sat, Sun and Holidays 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.