Recompositions Screenings
Featuring works by Priyanka Chhabra and Raqs Media Collective
18 February, 2025
6:30pm doors open with refreshments
7pm event starts

This screening is part of a series of discursive and performative events Recompositions, accompanying the exhibition ‘The place we do not know is the place we are looking for’, curated by Laura McLean and Suvani Suri.

Amplifying the mode of the gathering, the program assembles and attends to resonant practices that are intent on inventing languages to be able to hold ineffable dreams, desires and encounters, unfixed from the discretisation of time, bodies, and sensing.

The juxtaposition of these film works is underscored by a curatorial interest in the attempts to stage and read specific historical disjunctures, in forms that often cascade between documentary sources, archival fictions and speculative détournements. By bringing these films together, we imagine the works conversing with each other, in a vein that carries both a lightness of approach and intensity of thought contending with the ideas in the exhibition.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 unfolds across two sites in @collingwood_yards: West Space (1 Feb → 29 March) and @liquid_architecture (1 → 22 Feb) alongside a series of programs Recompositions with the participating artists from 17 → 23 February.

Presented by @liquid_architecture, @sarai.csds @westspace, supported by Centre for Australia-India Relations Maitri Cultural Partnerships Program.

Image: 'The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time' by Raqs Media Collective, 2023