Meet the most compelling entries from our recently concluded fund.

100 Shades of Incredible India is a large-scale gouache painting series that reinterprets the visual language of the Haripura Congress posters to explore contemporary themes of caste, class, and identity politics.

/14336/ is an immersive live multimedia project that is produced entirely on visuals created using Gameboy camera and soundscapes natively produced on Gameboy systems.

My project is an essay film based on the text “All That We Saw” by Amitesh Grover in which he posits a future where all the images have disappeared. Production started in 2024 before being halted.

An interactive audio visual experience, that has never been seen before in India. I want to tell a story that is specifically made for the next generation. A benchmark for how performances could be.

I want to evolve my WIP creative platform—artistrituals.in—into a full-fledged app that helps aspiring creatives stay inspired and overcome creative blocks across various creative fields.

a six chapter styling archive of mumbai told through clothes xerox textures city noise and a final immersive showing where the chaos of mumbai is edited styled printed and seen without apology

bedtime sonic fables is a sonic experience inspired by the sleep cycle, merging the practices of Dhrupad (Indian classical vocals) along with Electronic Sounds, Cymatics Visuals and live instruments

Chimbai is a multimedia documentary project about a 400 year old fishing village in Mumbai. It dives into the personalities, stories, and forces of nature that shape the village’s shifting tides.

My Project is an innovative interdisciplinary art project by combining six artistic practices such as sculpture, painting, video, timelapse and photography with the practice of acquascaping.

Cook & Keep: A life-size board game and public storytelling installation where participants co-create a living recipe, preserving India’s culinary heritage through play, memory, and community.

An album and collaborative multimedia project ‘Crimson’, featuring 2 high-concept music videos, album cover art, and 11 multimedia art pieces created by crowdsourced graphic designers

Delhi Houses is an archival project documenting modernism through the vernacular architecture of the capital city. Modern architecture is the most endangered heritage of India currently.

Drag Dollz are sculptural art objects that blur the lines between visual art, performance, craft, and identity. Each doll becomes a hybrid - both artefact and avatar - reflecting stories of gender, community, resistance, and beauty.

Effection 2.0 is an intimate biofeedback journey where two people connect through breath and heartbeat, shaping light and sound as they slowly attune to each other in presence and emotional rhythm.

EMERGENT: an audiovisual set exploring the concept of “intelligence” as it manifests in the digital realm; using experimental electronic music, generative visual worlds, and AI-driven processes.

We aim to present the community to the world through their own lens—centering lived experience over western documentation, and preserving culture as felt, not just recorded.

Fasola Fort is a soft, immersive installation inspired by childhood forts—a space for rest, healing, and belonging that explores porous boundaries between the inner self and the outside world.

First-Hand is an artistic, multisensory experience that helps people pause, reset, and enhance imagination—promoting mental wellbeing through touch, taste, scent, and ecology-positive storytelling.

An immersive Himalayan music residency where artists co-create with nature, empower local youth, and celebrate traditional sounds—blending field recordings, workshops, and cultural exchange.

This work reimagines the language of architecture through the lens of intuition and memory. From Archetypes to Spatial Gestures is a 2D interactive experience that invites viewers to engage with space

Girls Girls Girls is an online and offline IP spotlighting women artists, founders & creators—entirely made for women, by women.

HABr: is an anthology of in print hyperlocal network of zines which aim to connect literary works across regional dialects and literature. The zines serve as modes for sharing local epistemologies.

A 40-min documentary on Morranngam Khaling, a Naga tattoo artist reviving the fading Konyak tattoo traditions—an immersive journey through cultural memory and identity.

How To Make It In Mumbai is a comedic web series about the Indian hip-hop scene.

I’M NOT YOUR BABYGIRL is a short film set on a bus, where a young woman confronts a man grooming a girl—revealing the quiet threats and power dynamics women face in public spaces.

I have made a prototype of an autonomous electro acoustic generative musical instrument. I wish to explore a bigger better piece in a public space.

Kaleshi’s Cottage is a multimedia storytelling universe blending fashion, fantasy, and radical community expression through comics, games, and collaborative cultural work.

A dancer and painter co-create live on fabric, blending motion and paint. The canvas, marked by their performance, is later transformed into a unique, wearable artwork capturing the moment.

‘Miss u’ is a short fiction film about a middle-aged blue collar immigrant and his wife who try to be intimate on text, but cannot, as they’ve grown apart over the years.

Wearable objects that sense and display real-time climate data—turning everyday walks into living archives and poetic reflections on our changing environment.

A platform making the future more visible—by surfacing the ideas, people, and shifts shaping it from India outward. Thoughtful. Urgent. Culturally grounded. Built for agency.

Project Evoloka reimagines the future with DIY, jugaad, and rebellion. It’s raw, desi futurism-where scraps become stories and the forgotten build the world.

Project Gāthā is a multilingual music and docu-series reimagining Indian and Western poetry through cross-cultural collaborations, blending folk traditions with global contemporary sounds.

Queer Childhoods is an archival and media project in which I am faciliting conversations over childhood photographs in family albums of queer individuals in order to queer the idea of childhood.

a digital kantha exhibit reimagining queer futures through craft—co-created with artisans and storytellers to build a living archive of queer narratives in indian textiles in collaboration with Ritika

I am younger contemporary modern Artist, Here I want to do a solo Exhibition of my recent creativity, with “ Dumbed in crowd” & “Dark series “

I plan to create a series of works depicting the historical monuments of Aurangabad using mixed media. These works will serve as reflections of memory, archives, urban transformation & identity.

I have been working closely with the traditional Tholpavakoothu leather shadow puppetry community in Kerala to explore how this centuries-old craft can find new life today.

Slideshoweveryday is building the cultural infrastructure India needs. A creative house that publishes, collaborates, consults, and archives with global respect, local roots, and sharp taste.

Stand-Up Natyam merges Bharatanatyam and stand-up comedy into a genre-defying dance-theatre experience that is rooted in Indian dramaturgy, charged with popular culture and made for bold storytelling

Suffocated talks about feeling stuck in a circumstantial situation and being numb at the same time. The narrator is looking for a light at the end of tunnel.

A short documentary set in Kachchh, exploring the hidden craft of the Sindhi Nada and the women sustaining it—through ethnographic film, sound, and poetic storytelling.

The Scratch: a raw, intimate YouTube series on The Having Said That Show platform, spotlighting India’s rising music talent—interviews paired with stripped-back live sets of 3 tracks.

A living public archive of stitched, painted, and written testimonies by marginalized women and children in India—exhibited in public spaces to resist erasure and reclaim their narratives.

The Unscripted Project is a research and graphic exploration into the endangered and extinct scripts of India, shared via an exhibition and a range of designed objects.

Under Body, Below Word — A Space is an interdisciplinary performance that dissects the politics of language, surveillance, and the moving body — all through the item song Beedi Jalaile.

Under Body, Below Word — A Space is an interdisciplinary performance that dissects the politics of language, surveillance, and the moving body — all through the item song Beedi Jalaile.

My project documents Arjangarh’s akhara tradition, exploring its role in shaping local identity, youth engagement, and ecology, culminating in a multimedia installation reflecting its layered heritage

A 3N/4D cross-cultural dance retreat in India where movement, meaning, and memory guide dancers to discover their identity, embrace shared heritage, & embody Afro dance as a living ancestral history.