The artist and cofounder of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and currently president of the foundation that operates it, says the sixth edition, which opens in December, will ‘embrace slowness’. Following the delayed opening and logistical problems that beset the previous edition of India’s largest biennial, this year’s affair is curated by multidisciplinary artist Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, and features a list of participants that is smaller, with a higher percentage of local and national names over international stars (though the likes of Tino Sehgal, Adrián Villar Rojas and Otobong Nkanga still feature). This philosophy, say the organisers, will ‘allow conversations and forms to grow, ferment, decay, or transform’, but it’s also a response to the turbulent last years for the biennial. In scaling back, the biennial might just have hit on the zeitgeist for making things a little more considered and a little less spectacular. Outside of his activities with the biennial, Krishnamachari continues to exhibit his own work and facilitate numerous exhibitions of work by others.