Raqs Media Collective formulates curating as infrastructural mobilisation rather than the arrangement of objects. Water, toxicity, care, public gestures, digital circulation and urban life are treated as already mediated by systems that distribute access, exposure, memory and possibility. The curatorial task is therefore to sense and work with those systems without pretending that they are clean or neutral. Their examples—from Yokohama to Five Million Incidents and 51 Personae—show duration, multiplication and peer relations as curatorial materials. A small gesture can become a network; an event can migrate between physical and digital space; an exhibition can become a perennial urban practice. The key conceptual contribution is “open infrastructure”: openness must be written into the architecture of a system if modification and repurposing are to remain possible. This bridges curatorial theory with software culture, urban studies and institutional critique. Curation becomes a durational technology for moving protagonists, objects and intangible relations through porous fields.
