PERFORMANCE ‘It is likely the house will be dismantled piece by piece with a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure’ at KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 6:30pm on 29th July 2016

Yuko Kaseki

Romain Loustau

Nikhil Chopra

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 29/07/2016 18:30 29/07/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata PERFORMANCE ‘It is likely the house will be dismantled piece by piece with a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure’ Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/07/performance-it-is-likely-house-will-be.html KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 90 mins. 

Entry : Free

Venue : KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
Venue Info : khojworkshop.org | Nearest Metro Station - 'Malviya Nagar (Yellow Line) Exit Gate - 3'
Area : Saket

Event Description : Khoj International Artists’ Association presents a performance piece titled ‘It is likely the house will be dismantled piece by piece with a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure’ by performance artist Nikhil Chopra, Japanese Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki and French artist Romain Loustau.

‘It is likely the house will be dismantled piece by piece with a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure’ is the culmination of a 10 days intensive body workshop and residency hosted at HH Art Spaces Goa and supported by Japan Foundation with 6 artists coming from different practices in performance and visual art, led by Berlin based Japanese Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki. A version of this work is being brought to Khoj Delhi. In this interaction, the artists will occupy the various rooms and spaces of the site at Khoj Studios, Khirki village and will respond to each other’s diverse bodies, the environment, the architecture and personal memory.

Says Nikhil Chopra, “The impulse of the collaboration was to explore and respond to the landscape of urban India during the monsoons, the lush green environment of the city, which though beautiful, is harshly juxtaposed against the visuality of garbage strewn, shanty housing and the indiscriminate construction.”

Dismantling personal and habitual movement, they abstract, deconstruct and reconstruct these responses through improvisation with space, site, and found objects, embodying a range of physicalities and aesthetic possibilities. It seeks to answer the question: What could be rebuilt from the rubble left behind?

‘It is likely the house will be dismantled piece by piece with a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure’ had its debut at HH Art Spaces in Goa with Yuko Kaseki, Nikhil Chopra (Goa), Madhavi Gore (Goa), Romain Loustau (Paris/Goa), Venuri Perera (Colombo), Shivani Gupta (Mumbai/Goa) and Sajan Mani (Kerela). The performance will now be performed at Khoj with Yuko Kaseki, Nikhil Chopra and Romain Loustau.

Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice ranges between live art, theatre, painting, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on issues such as identity, the role of autobiography, the pose and self-portraiture, reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Taking autobiographical elements as his starting point, Chopra combines everyday life and collective history; daily acts such as eating, resting, washing and dressing, but also drawing and making clothes, acquire the value of ritual, becoming an essential part of the show. Chopra has been performing actively in the international art and theater scene since 2008.

Romain Loustau is a French artist, born in 1982, who works and lives between Paris and Goa. After art education in drama, he spent few years acting on stage and on camera. Meanwhile, Romain Loustau started collaborating with the French-Parisian based collective Mu, especially as assistant scenography of Vincent Voillat for several editions of the festival "Filmer La Musique". He has collaborated with rock bands such as "Farewell Poetry". Now Romain Loustau is dedicated to the development of HH art spaces with artists Madhavi Gore and Nikhil Chopra. His education, work and life directions are led by the attraction and mystery of the ‘stage’. From theatre to scenography to more inherently conceptualized performances, Romain Loustau is interested in materializing inner conflicts created by our ambivalent position on this world as a species. Humour is an important part to balance the crudeness of our time.

Yuko Kaseki is Butoh dancer, performer, improviser, choreographer and teacher, based in Berlin since 1995. Her Solo and ensemble performances, improvisations are performed throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentine, Australia and the USA. These works are physical performance that incorporates Butoh dance, performing art with objects, texts, and soundscapes.  Her strong interest about breaking border of physical existence leads to projects with mixed ability artists and performers. Numerous international collaboration such as inkBoat (San Francisco), Tableau Stations (San Francisco), CAVE (New York), improvisation duo KAYA with Antonis Anissegos (Berlin), Poema Theater (Moscow), Salad theater (Seoul), Theater Thikwa (Berlin), 4RUDE (Berlin) and others. She performs and organizes dance-music improvisation series “AMMO-NITE GIG” (Vol.1 - 48 and ongoing) with international performers and musicians in Berlin since 2004. Her works got an award “the Best Ensemble Performance” by Isadora Duncan Dance Award (SF) and nominated by The Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Toronto), no-ballet (Ludwigshafen), Toyota Choreography Award (Tokyo).

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