The House of Everything and Nothing explored the infinity of worlds inhabited by Raqs Media Collective. In 2013, Raqs asked a software programmer to come up with an algorithm that could help render the pattern-generated data harvested from the "conversation traffic" between their three personal computers in their studio in Shahpur Jat, New Delhi and the world. This pattern is the way in which they inhabit the world. It is the house that their work lives in, the tent it pitches as it makes its way through this time, here, now.
In The House of Everything and Nothing, Raqs translated this pattern into a texture that clads the surface for the Gujral house in Jor Bagh, New Delhi. The pattern was etched and incised into the plaster surface of the outer walls of the house. The grooves so created were filled with illuminated LED wires. Once lit, the house looked as if it were tattooed by a swirling circuit of light, as if it were the conduit for messages that had to cross its surface before they made their way into the world.
Outset India supported The House of Everything and Nothing, a site-specific installation by Raqs Media Collective to coincide with India Art Fair 2013. The dinner preview was hosted in collaboration with Christies and attended by collectors, curators, artists, art aficionados, and gallerists.
