Choksi’s most recent work-in-progress, Elementary, is a long-term, multi-format project that stems from a lived performance wherein she attends for an entire academic year (2018-2019) a Los Angeles public elementary school as a kindergarten student.
RELATED PROJECTS
Elementary (Sympathy) exhibition at Actual Size (2018), this live conversation work was followed by an exhibition. The Actual Size event and exhibition preceded the school attendance. It was reviewed in Artforum.
How was school today?, a show and tell performance as part of a residency and solo exhibition, ELEMENTARY, at 18th Street Arts Center (2018). The first three months of school coincided with this. The live performances at 18th Street were reviewed here.
Hierarchy Study (Elementary), a performance and installation at school and at the Box Gallery (2022).
Back to Kindergarten, a series of postcards produced as a Chrysalis Fellow, Migrating Pedagogies (2022-2023)
Forthcoming chapbook with DanceNotes (2025)
VIDEO WALKTHROUGH OF 18TH STREET PROJECT | 4 minutes
