Caroline Picard and Rohini Devasher in conversation about patterns, noise, chaos, and the contemporary conditions of wonder.

In Conversation with Rohini Devasher

During the Anthropocene Campus 2016: The Technosphere Issue, Delhi-based multimedia artist Rohini Devasher and I attended the same “Co-Evolutionary Perspectives of the Technosphere” seminar. Part of our required reading was Tim Ingold’s essay “On weaving a basket.” By looking at the long history of basket making, Ingold explores how “the difference between making and growing is by no means as obvious as we might have thought,” suggesting as a result that we might have to soften “the distinction between artefacts and living things”: form and substance, and even technology and nature. In the following conversation, Rohini and I explore similar themes as they weave in and out of her own diverse practice.