A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community.

Artist, observer, and researcher Navjot Altaf Mohamedi reflects on her experience in Bastar, a district in the heavily forested state of Chhattisgarh in Central India. Once a year, the Indigenous Muria Gond community comes together for a harvest dance performance called Kokerenge—which, as Mohamedi witnessed, can create experiences of sensorial intimacy and reciprocity with the more than human terrain, both at a conscious and subconscious level. In doing so, the performance hints at a tacit knowledge of interconnectedness, a knowledge that is threatened by the destructive forces of the mining industry in the region.