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Rock is not merely material or mineral; you are not just a maker exerting control over the rock. Rock and humans are all loci for slow and fast, discernible or evanescent processes, and way stations for exchanges, associations, and learnings. Let our work reflect on the stone as both an actor with its own geological and cultural experiences and a stage on which we (and others) enact, project, and enrich ourselves. This class acknowledges our kinship and our evident otherness from stone. In our discussions and encounters with stone, our respective material strengths and vulnerabilities will drive the range of our interconnectedness and relationships to stone. Our personal and planetary fates are tied. What can we learn from activating the stage of the quarry and enacting the agency of stone?
In work across and beyond performance, moving image, and sculpture, Neha Choksi probes lived experiences that negotiate relationships in unconventional settings. Harnessing stone to plant, animal to self, friends to institutions, Choksi’s materially bound art engages the terms of our existence in ways personal and planetary. Choksi’s recent stone sculpture poetically distills how stone, glass, and air are co-altered in their encounters; and how our being is shaped through the act of shaping.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Porous Earth, Project 88, Mumbai (IN). 2021 Urgency and Longing, Galerie Barbara Thumm, New Viewings, Berlin. Uncertain Allies, Kleefeld Contemporary Museum, Long Beach, CA (US). The Weight of the Cave, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA (US). 2018 Elementary Study, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (US). 2017 Faith in friction, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, (UK). Save the translation for later, Project 88, Mumbai. Liberty Matter, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA. 2015 Minds to Lose, Hayward Gallery, London.
Live
2022 Hierarchy Study, The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, co-produced with the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (US). 2018-2019 Elementary, offsite at a public elementary school, Los Angeles, CA. 2018 Every Kind of Sun, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka. 2018 How was school today?, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA. Elementary Sympathy, for measuring with a bent ruler, Actual Size Los Angeles, CA.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Mirror Maze, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi. 2023 To Enter the Sky, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka. Very Small Feelings, Dhaka Art Summit and KNMA, Delhi. 2022 Knees, Schools, Urges, The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2018 Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 2016 The Sun’s Rehearsal, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU). 2014 Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN). 2012 Quarantania, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK). APT 7, Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane (AU). Energy Plus: Mumbai City, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (CN).
Publications
In addition to publishing artist writings, Choksi has long served on the editorial board of the Los Angeles-based arts journal, X-TRA, and co-edits Mimesis: Film as Performance Magazine.
Internationale
Sommerakademie
für bildende Kunst
Salzburg
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