Capture All is an international research and development program that has been developed by Liquid Architecture (Naarm/Melbourne) in partnership with Sarai-CSDS (New Delhi) since 2021.

Led by research curators Laura McLean (Liquid Architecture), Suvani Suri, and Mehak Sawhney (Sarai), and comprised of artists, researchers, activists, and educators, the program considers Australia and India’s complex relationships to data colonialism and extraction across physical and digital spaces.

By engaging with sound as a form of knowledge and expression, as a situated sensory experience, and as an object that has been archived and datafied, Capture All seeks to mobilise sound and listening practices as means with which to critically analyse and disrupt the recursive colonial patterns in data-driven governance that haunt and impact contemporary life in India and Australia.

Developed through a series of critical intensives and dialogues, public programs, and publications, the program is contextualised by Sarai’s pioneering work on media and information, urbanism, infrastructure, media archaeology, data and law, the commons, and the public domain in South Asia, and by Liquid Architecture as a dedicated platform for artists engaged in experimental sound practice, sustained and energised through conversation and research, and realised in collaboration with local and regional community in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.