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Lakshmi Nivas Collective was established in 2018 by Sunoj D, a visual artist, and Namrata Neog, whose background spans history, archaeology, and anthropology. Rooted in seasonal animal grazing and fodder foraging in the predominantly agrarian landscape of Parudur in Palakkad, Kerala, the Collective’s research and practice probe human–nonhuman entanglements and the complexities of human agency across time and terrain. Their practice includes productions in moving image, sculpture, text, installation, and hosting gatherings with animal herders, land workers, artists, neighbours, and farmers, as gestures of care and kinship in what theorist Donna J Haraway (2016) describes as the Chthulucene, a radical reorganisation of narratives to enliven plural agencies and “tentacular thinking”.