The Blank Space Studio, in a century-old mill in Mahalaxmi, can be what you want it to be. It can be a space where you conduct a workshop, screen a film, or stage a garage sale. If you're visual artist Namah Shah and filmmaker Satyarth Shaurya Singh, it can also be an office. In fact, the two work out of the one-room, one-garage, one-terrace space, and sometimes, even use it as a set. "The whole idea is to treat this space as very collapsible," says Singh. "If someone wants to watch a film, they can; someone wants to work from here, they can; and if someone just wants to chill post-9 pm, they can also do that." In this spirit, they have held photography workshops and a self-portrait workshop by textile artist Sarah Naqvi; they have hosted garage sales in support of artist Aqui Thami's Sister Library; and they've screened films such as Counterfeit Kunkoo by Reema Sengupta, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last year. "Sometimes, if there's an event at G5A, people just carry forward their scene here.

So, it's pretty interesting like that," says Singh. About three years ago, the space was actually empty. "We would bring our laptops, and just work," says Shah. "The idea was to have a space to expand our own work, to build in-house sets. As time passed, people would come here for meetings. This interest to make it an alternative space very much came from the outside. We anyways collaborate so much with our peers. We're in that time now when it's not so much about competition, but collaboration. So, we started off with film screenings, with 20-30 people, and then we started exploring [the idea] that if people are interested in making their way to our neck of the woods, then why not do this?" The reaction has been interesting. "It's very intimate and the discussions allow for a free flow of ideas. It feels like we're welcoming you into our safe space, where we create."