For their summer program, the Audain Gallery has commissioned the New Delhi based Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) to present a site-specific work in the large windows outside of the gallery on Hastings Street. Entitled The Primary Education of the Autodidact, the work addresses the university as a site for knowledge production.
Founded in 1992, Raqs Media Collective is a prolific collaborative project by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Crossing and combing different media, they work as artists, filmmakers, writers, curators, editors, event organizers, and more. Inspired by a self-defined notion of “kinetic contemplation”, their practice restlessly explores new forms and methods of production while preserving a consistent rigor. Their work as artists and as curators has been presented at major institutions internationally.
The Audain Gallery will be closed until September, the window project is publicly visible at Simon Fraser University, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings Street. Primary Education of the Autodidact is part of the Indian Summer Festival.
Founded in 1992, Raqs Media Collective is a prolific collaborative project by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Crossing and combing different media, they work as artists, filmmakers, writers, curators, editors, event organizers, and more. Inspired by a self-defined notion of “kinetic contemplation”, their practice restlessly explores new forms and methods of production while preserving a consistent rigor. Their work as artists and as curators has been presented at major institutions internationally.
The Audain Gallery will be closed until September, the window project is publicly visible at Simon Fraser University, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings Street. Primary Education of the Autodidact is part of the Indian Summer Festival.
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/
