Sanjoy Rakshit

The concept of the "invisible guillotine" captures the silent, unseen forces shaping our world today. It represents hidden rules and motives that strip away our humanity, dignity, morality, and freedom without us even realizing it. This invisible blade cuts deeper than any physical weapon, affecting lives in subtle but profound ways. As an artist, I feel this loss personally. Fifty-one years of my life have slipped away — my childhood, my youth — all overshadowed by this relentless force. Alone in this vast world, I find solace only in the stars above. Yet, every night, I witness the bloodshed surrounding me. Despite striving to be kind and rhythmic in my actions, my spirit feels hollow, my emotions starved. This is but one example among many, reflecting a larger truth.

Sai Gitanjali Poluru

Terracoustics is a sculptural sound project that reimagines terracotta as a living, acoustic body. Blending terracotta with sound technology, the work transforms hand-built earthen forms into resonant chambers that emit, absorb, and remember sound. Drawing inspiration from India’s sonic architectural heritage, such as the whispering domes of Agra Fort or the vaulted acoustics of Gol Gumbaz the project, explores how voids, not solids, shape sonic experience. Using real-time sound interactions, each sculpture becomes a responsive organism. Sounds emerge not from external sources but from the tuned geometry of the clay itself. By collapsing boundaries between craft and code, Terracoustics invites audiences into a tactile, intimate mode of listening. It is both an artistic and cultural inquiry into how space, material, and memory resonate, inviting silence, vibration, and breath as tools of engagement.

Himanya Behl

Music is a way to find our frequency. I use my studio to create sounds, make samples, cook beats and turn them into songs. My aim is to refine the process of making my next projects using trial and error.

Aliya Khan

Chimbai is a documentary about a 400-year-old Koli fishing village in the heart of Mumbai - one of the city’s last coastal communities. As urban pressures grow, the film preserves chimbai’s layered cultural landscape in the face of sweeping change. Blending documentary footage with music, illustration, and poetry, we’re working with local artists, musicians, and children to co-create a multidimensional portrait of the village. In addition to the film, we are building a short-form content repository to make chimbai’s heritage accessible to wider audiences. This project challenges top-down documentation by inviting communities to represent themselves. It aims not only to archive what exists, but to strengthen what can grow from it: cultural equity through creative pathways, connecting grassroots artists with wider networks in Mumbai and beyond.

Sanjoy Rakshit

The concept of the "invisible guillotine" captures the silent, unseen forces shaping our world today. It represents hidden rules and motives that strip away our humanity, dignity, morality, and freedom without us even realizing it. This invisible blade cuts deeper than any physical weapon, affecting lives in subtle but profound ways. As an artist, I feel this loss personally. Fifty-one years of my life have slipped away — my childhood, my youth — all overshadowed by this relentless force. Alone in this vast world, I find solace only in the stars above. Yet, every night, I witness the bloodshed surrounding me. Despite striving to be kind and rhythmic in my actions, my spirit feels hollow, my emotions starved. This is but one example among many, reflecting a larger truth.

Sai Gitanjali Poluru

Terracoustics is a sculptural sound project that reimagines terracotta as a living, acoustic body. Blending terracotta with sound technology, the work transforms hand-built earthen forms into resonant chambers that emit, absorb, and remember sound. Drawing inspiration from India’s sonic architectural heritage, such as the whispering domes of Agra Fort or the vaulted acoustics of Gol Gumbaz the project, explores how voids, not solids, shape sonic experience. Using real-time sound interactions, each sculpture becomes a responsive organism. Sounds emerge not from external sources but from the tuned geometry of the clay itself. By collapsing boundaries between craft and code, Terracoustics invites audiences into a tactile, intimate mode of listening. It is both an artistic and cultural inquiry into how space, material, and memory resonate, inviting silence, vibration, and breath as tools of engagement.

Himanya Behl

Music is a way to find our frequency. I use my studio to create sounds, make samples, cook beats and turn them into songs. My aim is to refine the process of making my next projects using trial and error.

Aliya Khan

Chimbai is a documentary about a 400-year-old Koli fishing village in the heart of Mumbai - one of the city’s last coastal communities. As urban pressures grow, the film preserves chimbai’s layered cultural landscape in the face of sweeping change. Blending documentary footage with music, illustration, and poetry, we’re working with local artists, musicians, and children to co-create a multidimensional portrait of the village. In addition to the film, we are building a short-form content repository to make chimbai’s heritage accessible to wider audiences. This project challenges top-down documentation by inviting communities to represent themselves. It aims not only to archive what exists, but to strengthen what can grow from it: cultural equity through creative pathways, connecting grassroots artists with wider networks in Mumbai and beyond.