Built through rasa as a curatorial framework, RETURNING HOME treats music as something felt before it is explained. Defined literally in Sanskrit as juice, essence, or taste, rasa names the emotional residue of an artistic experience: what lingers between curator and listener, selection and response.
This show is not solely an exploration of diaspora media, but an amalgamation of the tastes and sensibilities I have amassed through my own journey in music. RETURNING HOME moves across genre, geography, and tempo to explore how sound is carried, reshaped, and returned.
South Asia has long shaped musical innovation, from classical and filmi traditions to foundational sampling practices and early electronic experimentation. Across the diaspora, that lineage continues in constant recombination, as artists and curators fuse the sounds of homeland and residence into forms entirely their own. RETURNING HOME honors that inheritance while tracing my place within it.
This show is overstimulating. It is maximalist in intention. It is a love letter to the ancestors who moved sound forward, and to the futures still taking shape in their wake.