Home, Elsewhere: Objects That Carry Us

A short theatre piece emerging from Cosmos, Memory, Scale (Karl Singporewala, Artist in Residence 2024/25), exploring how Zoroastrian devotional objects and domestic ritual spaces carry memory, belonging and identity across migration.

Home, Elsewhere: Objects That Carry Us is a theatre exploration developed by the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies in dialogue with UK-based Zoroastrian community members. The project emerges from Karl Singporewala’s inaugural 2024/25 Artist in Residence exhibition, Cosmos, Memory, Scale, and brings performance into conversation with lived religious practice, memory work and material culture.

At the heart of the piece are stories of home-based Zoroastrian devotional objects and ritual spaces – the everyday, often privately held items through which religious life is maintained, taught and re-imagined. Drawing on oral histories and visual memories shared through community workshops, the performance reflects on how these objects act as carriers of meaning: linking homes left behind with homes remade, and helping to sustain belonging across generations and geographies.

By attending to domestic ritual practice alongside migration histories, Home, Elsewhere considers how objects can be more than reminders of the past. They can become portable points of continuity, shaping identity in motion, adapted to new contexts while retaining the ability to gather people, stories and relationships around them.

This event will be followed by a post-show discussion and reception.