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Dancing In the Dark from rajurage on Vimeo.

Performance as part of the Dancing in the Dark UK tour with musician and composer RENU 2018

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Eat While You Feed? (Short Edit) from rajurage on Vimeo.

An autoethcographic documentary of the Shah family, that explores health and wellbeing, care, time, labour, lineage, tradition and archetypes, gender and cross generational and cultural exchange and unconventional family recipes.

Raju Rage 13 mins / 29 min Full version will be installed at Recipes For Resistance Exhibition at Ort Gallery, Birmingham 24 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 ortgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/recipes-for-resistance/

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Eat While You Feed? (Short Edit) from rajurage on Vimeo.

An autoethcographic documentary of the Shah family, that explores health and wellbeing, care, time, labour, lineage, tradition and archetypes, gender and cross generational and cultural exchange and unconventional family recipes.

Raju Rage 13 mins / 29 min Full version will be installed at Recipes For Resistance Exhibition at Ort Gallery, Birmingham 24 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 ortgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/recipes-for-resistance/

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switch up from rajurage on Vimeo.

- code switching - the practice of shifting the languages you use or the way you express yourself in your conversations as a strategy of resistance. I change my gender according to different environments I have to navigate and negotiate. in what ways do you code switch?

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cant read my audio from rajurage on Vimeo.

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in-human-e audio final from rajurage on Vimeo.

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Care Less / Care More......... from rajurage on Vimeo.

''Caring for myself is not indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political war fare''. Single love. Self love. Self care. Safe sex is self sex. I'd rather read Audre Lorde then go on a date with a Cishet guy who wants to sex me. I'd rather self care then sex care for those who don't care about the actual lives of transpeople. What are your favourite self- love quotes?

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IMG_4582 from rajurage on Vimeo.

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Self - Scapes from rajurage on Vimeo.

Self-Scape/s: Raju, Rage (2015) live-streamed performance (via internet) into the ‘conference’ (20.00), from the toilet at Ruptures; Between the City and the Art World, 12th December 2015 at the Association of British Insurers

rupturesinplaces.com/ rajurage.com

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Collective Creativity have just been awarded a Go and See bursary funding to (re)visit the Making Histories Visible archive in Preston UK! Hooray!

Undertaking a short residency at The Making Histories Visible archive, UCLan(makinghistoriesvisible.com) will support the archival and research work we (Evan Ifekoya, Raisa Kabir and Raju Rage) are doing with London based archive AAVAA (African, Asian Visual Arts Archive) at Chelsea, UAL as well as feed into our individual practices.  We aim to create discourse around the legacies of ‘black’ art in Britain and interrogate its impact on POC (people of colour) artists emerging today. (aka ‘un-archiving’ and ‘putting ourselves in the picture’)

We will also be using the opportunity to document our process and work we have been doing to date which we will present at GLITCH QPOC film festival Glasgow 2015 where we will be presenting ‘QTIPoC Collective Creativity on Tour – Multimedia Presentation and Participatory Discussion Session - Navigating QT*IPoC Emerging Practices: In Conversation with Collective Creativity’. http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/glitchprogramme-2015/

As a collective of QTPOC artists  who have all in some way felt failed by the art academy and our formal educations, this project offers up a space to critically reflect on those experiences and examine the gaps and absences in art institutions. We are invested in making more and better resources available so that future generations of QTI/POC artists don’t face the same sense of disillusionment. Our wider aims are to transform the sometimes inaccessible space of the archive, often held in gate keeping institutions into one that everyone feels entitled to access. With a deeper awareness of our histories as creative subjects we are better equipped to navigate the world as informed practitioners.

*Thanks to a-n (www.a-n.co.uk), Lubaina Himid (making Visible archive), GLITCH Film Festival 2015 

https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/go-and-see-bursaries-11-artists-initiatives-receive-funding

http://makinghistoriesvisible.com

http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch

image: collage using Thin Black Line(s) Publication published by Making Histories Visible, Centre for Contemporary Art 2011

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Public Interruptions: Inv-asian from rajurage on Vimeo.

Public Interruptions: Inv-asian is the first in a series of Interruptions in Public Spaces.

This interruption was at Cross Cultural Live Arts Project in Oct 2014 exploring South Asian Identity in the public realm and perceptions of Identity can be interrupted.

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project/ed: 'cut your coat according to your cloth' preview from rajurage on Vimeo.

Preview for the moving image narrative 6.45mins

A haptic moving image narrative consisting of projected archival images depicting South Asian migration onto a gendered non conforming body.

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the dilemma of the diaspora to define at Guest Projects 2014 from rajurage on Vimeo.

Performative Installation by Raju Rage Cloth Woven by Textile Artist Raisa Kabir

@Guest Projects London Sept 20th 2014

rajurage.com [email protected]

thanks to Kam Wai for camera/documentation

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'We are Losing Inertia' edited by Binghao Wong featuring work by Raju Rage: 'Saffronite' image and 'Breakdown of a deconstructive antiperformance: An installation of creative resistance' critical text

Zine turned into a Publication for ICA....get your limited copies there now for £25 or check out the zine online http://issuu.com/binghao5/docs/we_are_losing_inertia_-_issuu

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Our residency is in process and we, Raju Rage and Raisa Kabir are hard at work...here are a couple of sneak previews of the work. We cant wait to open doors to the public on saturday to showcase our final work!

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(e)merging Identities Workshop - self portrait Aug 3 2014

On Aug 3rd in Berlin at What Is Queer Today Is Not Tomorrow, Evan Ifekoya and I facilitated a workshop called (e)merging Identities where we looked at micro cultures such as gender, race, culture, religion, geography, age, ethnicity, sexuality to create portraits of ourselves which we turned into a collaborative zine (to be posted soon).  We based the portraits on text and objects that we felt represented ourselves in some way. I chose the rubber turban I made as part of the exhibition and a scarf that I wore as part of the performance and a text about the meaning of cultural objects 

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dilemma of the diaspora to define exhibition Jul 24 - 10 Aug 2014

at NGBK Berlin 'What Is Queer Today Is Not Queer Tomorrow'

Monster Terrorist Fag cultural collage portrait

Something is more at stake than just the question of 6 yards of cloth – 5 metres of cloth: block and screen printed

Looking at - Looking through – cloth collage – 5 metres of cloth: with photographic images

Tied with Tradition – rubber functional sculptural objects

(I haven’t got a picture to show you what I’ve been through – Soundscape Installation) not included in this post

Dis-placed – assemblage of various objects