Raqs Media Collective: Art in the Age of Collective Intelligence If the World is a Fair Place Then…
Repeats daily, ending Sun, February 14, 10:00am - 5:00pm
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Laumeier Sculpture Park’s inaugural exhibition in the Whitaker Foundation Gallery of the new Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center is a textual installation by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta of the Raqs Media Collective, a New Delhi-based collaborative with a politically charged artistic and theoretical practice. Art in the Age of Collective Intelligence consists of a large series of photographs and a constructed library of books expanding on the Collective’s ongoing preoccupation with change from the inside. The exhibition also includes an outdoor commission, If the World is a Fair Place Then…, inspired by the more than 500 responses to the prompt gathered by Laumeier in 2014. Forty stainless steel bands etched with various thoughts, feelings and ideas from the responses encircle tree trunks along Laumeier’s Art Hike Trail, exploring Raqs’ interest in the history of World’s Fairs—especially the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis—and the polyphony of the crowd. The exhibition runs Friday, October 16–Sunday, February 14, at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, Saint Louis, Missouri. Free. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www.laumeier.org for more information.