[Energy and Heart] In the curator’s own words, First World Problems is “a mischievous anthology of a show” – mischief abounds and anthology is the perfect structural description. Ahi Karunaharan has curated a project designed to explore and explode some of the contradictions, injustices, comedy, confusion and conflict belonging to South Asian experience in Aotearoa. With a cast of twenty in the Basement’s Studio space, whose voices we hear both collectively and individually, First World Problems is alive with a sheer human density that is inescapably watchable. Producer Ankita Singh describes the work as ‘energising and innovative’, and she’s right [...]