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An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale
Raqs Media Collective2011
Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India
An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale’ is a looped video projection of an archived photographic image in which a room full of surveyors is transformed by Raqs through a series of subtle alterations. The photograph in question is titled 'Examining Room of the Duffing Section of the Photographic Department of the Survey of India'.
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Details
- Title: An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale
- Creator: Raqs Media Collective
- Date Created: 2011
- Location: Senate House, Chennai
- Type: Photograph
- Original Source: Artist Website
- External Link: See more at Chennai Photo Biennale's website
- Exhibition title: Labyrinths
- Exhibition Description: And the world is a complicated irregular network of images and texts in passages and paths.
- CPB Edition: 2019
- Artist's biography: Raqs Media Collective makes contemporary art, edits books, curates exhibitions, and stages situations. It has collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers, curators, and theatre directors, and has made films. In 2001 it co-founded Sarai at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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