Joya: AiR / Vasundhara Mathur / IND

photo Simon Beckmann

Joya: AiR / Vasundhara Mathur / IND

“I recently received a development grant from the Arts Council to reconnect with my music practice. I came to Joya: AiR to work on this. I needed space and time to reconnect with the elemental aspects of my work and my voice. The space at Joya allowed me to sit with this question of practice and repetition in music. I worked with my grandmother's music archives and practice notebooks. I spent nearly 4 to 6 hours singing every day, recording sounds from the landscape, and revisiting old folk tunes I was taught as a child. I think the connection to landscape and the environment, so evident in everyday life at Joya, reminds everyone who comes here of the importance of considering and sitting in/with nature”.

Vasundhara Mathur

Vasundhara Mathur @vasundhara.m (she/her)'s practice explores the instructive potential of gathering practices and the preservation of collective memory through the lenses of contemporary art, publishing, oral history, craft, music and collective archiving. She works in Research and Interpretation at Tate in London. In 2024, she led a year long research project at Tate Modern, and curated a public programme titled The Archive is a Gathering Place. She was Tate’s inaugural International Fellow at M+ Museum in Hong Kong in 2025.