Night School Seminar 11: Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Thursday, January 15, 7pm
Friday, January 16, 7pm
Saturday, January 17, 3pm

What can pupils learn while they dilate at night? Raqs Media Collective fills three Night School sessions with darkness, scrawls, and gray matter. The first evening (January 15, 7 p.m.), “An Illegible Signature,” will feature a Raqs lecture–performance on the questions of legibility, stammering, and shadows. The second session (January 16, 7 p.m.), “The Watches of the Night,” will feature Raqs weaving considerations on time, immeasurability, and darkness into a presentation with film fragments, nightmares, lucid dreams, recordings, and textual marginalia, accompanied by K. D Vyas and his correspondence. The third session (January 17, 3 p.m.), “The Darkness of Gray Matter,” will feature a conversation on darkness and gray matter, neural conundrums, forensic dilemmas, and the wiring of the imagination between Raqs, and Dr. Arani Bose, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Steven Pacia, a neurologist.

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