“I want to blur that sense of identity and I wanted to do that with the museum”

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1 There was a team of six people on this journey including Loise Braganza (Costume Design), Aradhana Seth (Set Design), Madhavi Gore & Jana Prepeluh (Performance and Research Work), Sophie Winquist (Filming), and Shaira Sequeira Shetty (Project Assistant).

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Nikhil Chopra

Nikhil Chopra's artistic practice interweaves live art, drawing, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on identity and its construction, autobiography and authorship, the pose and self-portraiture. His work reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Nikhil combines everyday life, memory and collective history; daily acts such as eating, resting, washing and dressing, but also drawing and making clothes, become the process of making an artwork, becoming an essential part of the show.

Nikhil's performances on the international art and theatre scene began in 2008 when the artist was invited to contribute to Time Crevasse (Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Making Worlds (53rd Venice Biennale), Performa (New Museum New York) and Marina Abramovic Presents (Manchester International Festival, The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester). After his one year research fellowship in 2011 at Interweaving Perfomance Cultures, Freie Unversität Berlin, his work took him back to the Whitworth Art Gallery to make a solo project for the 2013 Manchester International Festival where he received critical acclaim for his performance Coal on Cotton. Between 2014 and 2017 he performed at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Bienal de La Habana, Sharjah Biennial 12 and documenta 14. In 2019 he presented a nine-day-long solo performance titled Lands, Waters and Skies for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.