Raqs Media Collective

Reading Light

Archive 2011

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Reading Light
Concept, Raqs Media Collective


Production Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the Prakriti Foundation, Courtesy Raqs Media Collective and Frith Street Gallery, London



Reading Light is part of the  FIAC.

Raqs Media Collective’s work inhabits forms as diverse as installations, video, performance, text and curation. Reading Light – the work presented by Raqs in Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic building for the French Communist Party at the Place Colonel Fabien – is a set of illuminated signs that use text, typography, light sources and electricity to conjure a renewal of human aspirations.

In the same place

Espace Niemeyer
octoberoct 12 – 13

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Air Pressure

Performance

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, artist, researcher and performer, revolutionizes the visual arts through the power of sound. As founder of Earshot, a non-profit organization that makes audio-based investigations for the defence of human rights and the environment, he kept a diary of Lebanon's anxiety-provoking airspace for a whole year. In a sound creation by Moe Choucair, he brings us a performance combining background noise and a climate of violence.