Raqs Media Collective

Seepage

Anyone who wants to know what the clever, sophisticated, emotionally pungent Raqs Media Collective is all about should look at the clock on their home page, where numbers are replaced by words like epiphany, remorse, indifference, awe and fatigue. This book gathers together texts by the Delhi-based collective Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta). Raqs has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors, and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events, locates them at the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research, and theory — often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances, and encounters. The collective is based at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2000.

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Rauschenberg At Gemini

At only 64 pages, this catalog is small but the story it tells is huge: it documents the thirty-plus years that Robert Rauschenberg created prints and multiples at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous print house in Los Angeles. From 1967 through 2001, working with Gemini owners Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein, Rauschenberg pushed the boundaries of printmaking like no other contemporary artist before or since. All of Rauschenberg’s most celebrated Gemini G.E.L. prints, print series and multiples – such as Booster, the artist’s famous X-ray self-portrait – are illustrated in this essential volume. Also included are prints using his photographs of Los Angeles, multiples created in France, India, China, and from his travels with the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange, as well as works created for political or environmental causes including the first Earth Day in 1970. In addition, photographs of the artist working at Gemini are reproduced. Includes an extensive essay by curator Jay Belloli.

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