A Provocation to Contemporary Art as Place-Making: Some Observations after Documenta 15

Raqs Media Collective (formed in 1992 by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta; based in New Delhi) practices across several media, making installations, sculpture, video, performance, and texts, as well as editing and curating. They have exhibited widely, including at Documenta 11 (2002) and the Venice, Istanbul, Taipei, Liverpool, Shanghai, Sydney, and São Paulo biennials. Their most recent solo exhibition is 1980 in Parallax (Jencks Foundation at the Cosmic House, London, 2023).