Raqs Media Collective makes art, edits books, curates exhibitions, and stages situations. It follows its self-declared imperative of 'kinetic contemplation' to produce a trajectory that is restless in forms and exacting in procedures. Raqs articulates an intimately lived relationship with time, memory, and history through conjecture, entanglement and excavation. Spinal follows on from Raqs' immersive installation Not Yet at Ease held at Firstsite, Colchester in 2018, which was commissioned by 14-18 NOW to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice of 1918.