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Exhibition Reception: Neha Choksi Artist Lab at 18th Street Arts Center
Courtesy of 18th Street Arts Center | Posted on November 26, 2018
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Sat, December 1, 2018
5:00 pm
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NEHA CHOKSI | ELEMENTARY
September 29 – December 15, 2018
Exhibition Reception
Saturday, December 1, 2018 | 5-8 PM
18th Street Arts Center presents a new exhibition in the Artist Lab featuring Los Angeles-based artist Neha Choksi.
Neha Choksi began a year-long performance this fall, attending an elementary school as a kindergarten student. Elementary is part of Choksi’s larger Play!School! project that questions childhood as a limited category and extends childhood’s epistemic processes to foster new understandings about how we organize and address contemporary civil society. By attending school as an adult, Choksi aims to question many of the boundaries, hierarchies, and fantasies around the “civilizing” process of education. As a lived performance, Choksi’s work reorganizes ideas of art and an artist’s labor for her classmates. The accumulated experience in the classroom during her Play!School! project will help re-shape our perception of who we are and want to be, how we arrive at our ideas about self/other, childhood/adulthood, naïve/civilized, and more. ...