Raqs Media Collective: Thicket
By Cleo Roberts
Viewers were invited to participate in Anybody, Everybody, Make a Mark (2016), one of three actions planned inside the Tate Exchange space in London by RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE.
A dense web of papery blue tape overtook Tate Exchange from December 14 to 18, 2016, under the watch of the Raqs Media Collective. Across the fifth floor of the Switch House building, this mass of translucent blue lines spanned across the walls and stretched along the floor as a result of their latest participatory installation, "Thicket." Shaped by three actions—Anybody, Everybody, Make a Mark, Unbroken Reading and Memorophilia—the piece incrementally transformed the Exchange into a multi-sensory exploration of thought, time and memory over the course of five days.
