The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago presents Cavalcade, an exhibition of new works by the renowned Delhi-based artist group Raqs Media Collective, based in part on footage of an annual religious festival that takes place in the holy Hindu city of Deoghar, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, Cavalcade recasts the event as a gathering where humans and non-humans jostle for space. The recurring presence of skeletal imagery, set in the sonic gloom
of a spectral, beatless soundtrack, suggests that this moment also conjures the communion of the
living and the dead, past, present, and future – a moment outside time.
