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A CONVERSATION WITH RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE – Anabelle de Gersigny

Published on 24 February, 2014 in Ocula Magazine

Raqs Media Collective, Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Photo: Manisha Gera Baswani

“Raqs Media Collective comprises a group of three practitioners—Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta—all based in New Delhi. The collective was formed in 1992 after its three members graduated from the Mass Communications Research Centre at the Jamia Milia Islamia university in Delhi.

Through the 1990s Raqs made a number of documentary films, including In the Eye of the Fish (1997), Present Imperfect, Future Tense (1999) and a thirteen-part television series, Growing Up (1995), which display many of the themes that they have continued to explore in their subsequent work—the urban landscape, the meaning and uses of media and technology, the nature of knowledge and what it means to learn. Through their work, learning becomes not only an artistic impulse but a wider human faculty associated with the capacity of individuals and societies for imaginative and ethical innovation.”

Raqs Media Collective, Ocula