Dance
Jayalakshmi Eshwar
Movement, gesture and character, informed by a lifetime of Bharatanatyam practice.
How does living knowledge
find its next audience?
An Indian cultural science-fiction world, unfolding since 2013 through games, performance, music and art.
Now building ANTARA: Chapter One.
A 30-minute playable demo.In development · Targeting December 2027.
The future belongs to those who remember.
A dancer and her son race the Empire to ancient flying machines hidden in shrines in South India.
Meet the protagonists and explore the game in development.
Explore Chapter OneHeritage
in motion.
ANTARA explores new dimensions in digital heritage through worldbuilding, in cooperation with archives, museums and publics.
CraftPunk.
What if the future belonged to makers? ANTARA imagines a science fiction shaped by the skills of artisans, dancers and musicians.
Explore the world & its stories
One world.
Many ways in.
Episode Zero
The point-and-click adventure that began our journey
Dance opera
Bharatanatyam, a live electro-classical ensemble and a digital world
Graphic novel
Illustrated science fiction, seeking publishing and co-production partners
Sounds of Antara
Carnatic traditions meet electronic composition
Fortnite digital museum
A multiplayer extension into Fortnite
Mobile game
A 2D game experiment for Indian audiences
Heritage is
a living practice.
ANTARA brings traditional knowledge and new technologies into the same creative practice.
Field research, museum collaborations, performance capture and game development help inherited knowledge evolve.
Explore the processAntariksha Studio
Dance. Dreams.
Music.
An intergenerational studio imagining other futures.
Founded in 2020, Antariksha Studio brings cultural traditions into conversation with South Asian futurism.
Dreams
Avinash Kumar
The visual world and its interactive manifestations.
Music
Murthovic
Ethnomusicology and electronic composition shaping the world’s sound.
Selected recognition / Earlier works & research
Across stages, screens and conversations.
Showcases
Game, art & design
Press
Print & digital
Support & partnerships
Support our work.
Join ANTARA as a patron, cultural partner, funder or investor. Tell us what brings you here.
Ways to support ANTARAOr email avinash@quicksand.co.in
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