LB°18 — Artists
ARKIV
Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 in Delhi and consists of Jeebesh Bagchi (b. 1965), Monica Narula (b. 1969), and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (b. 1968).
The Blood of Stars invites its public to think about the relation between the presence of iron, a residue from the formation of the universe, sleeping deep inside the earth, and its course through the veins of warm blooded mammals. Meanwhile, it also registers the relationships between mining, global militarism and physical changes to the landscape of Norrbotten. Raqs Media Collective catch starlight in a dying reindeer’s eye, eavesdrop on the logic of extraction inside an iron mine and explore the tunnels of an abandoned subterranean military facility kept warm in preparation for a nuclear winter. The installation is reactivated through a collaboration between the Public Art Agency and the Luleå Biennial. The work was originally commissioned by the Public Art Agency as part of the 2017 exhibition Brytningstider, curated by Lisa Rosendahl.
Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 in Delhi and consists of Jeebesh Bagchi (b. 1965), Monica Narula (b. 1969), and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (b. 1968).
Work
The Blood of Stars, 2017
Location
Mjölkuddsberget, Luleå
17.11.2018–17.2.2018
