The project builds on the mythical Khandava forest in the Mahabharata, ruminating on ecological anxieties of the contemporary through a conversation with a Kalpavriksha- a magical wish-granting tree. Within a techno-mythical framework, the tree emerges as a harborer of a liquid reality, becoming the subject of complex technological, sociological, and ecological intersections that terraform our world. 

The positioning of the tree as a beyond-human repository of knowledge brings to crisis our notions of origins, history, culture, and the drive to extract and archive. The work then reimagines nature and human agency, alternate information repositories and voids, and inter-species symbiosis, revealing possible futures that don’t turn singularly extractive.

 

 

"Crackle of an Undying Log", 3- Channel Video Installation with Hologram, 32 Minutes, 4k, Stereo Audio, 2024. Displayed at Goethe Institut, New Delhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Excerpt, "Crackle of an Undying Log", 3- Channel Video Installation with Hologram, 32 Minutes, 4k, Stereo Audio, 2024. Displayed at Goethe Institut, New Delhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Screengrabs, "Crackle of an Undying Log", 3- Channel Video Installation with Hologram, 32 Minutes, 4k, Stereo Audio, 2024. Displayed at Goethe Institut, New Delhi