Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing XI

May 10th, 2010, posted in Live Performance, Yog Raj Chitrakar

Production Site: Artist’s Studio Inside-Out
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

February 2010
Duration 16 hours
Curator: Dominic Molon
Costumes: Loise Braganza
Photography: Nathan Keay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

On Tuesday and Wednesday, February 9 and 10, Mumbai-based Nikhil Chopra performed Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing XI in the MCA galleries. Chopra brings the artist’s studio into the gallery using a variety of costumes and props, and wall drawings that he creates during the performance.

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Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing X

May 10th, 2010, posted in Live Performance, Photography, Yog Raj Chitrakar

Mumbai

January 2010
Duration: 48 hours
Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
Costumes: Loise Braganza
Photography: Shivani Gupta
Production Assistance: Starlyn D’ Souza and Aarti Sunder

Yog Raj Chitrakar, walked from the Northern end of the island city of Mumbai to its southern tip and back; a journey 30 km and 48 hours long. The performance began in an open ground at 5 pm in Bandra, a trendy young suburb of Mumbai that prior to large gentrification projects since the 1970s and 80s, was a cluster of sleepy fishing villages. The performance began with Yog Raj dressed only in his underwear shaving his head and beard. He went on to wear a crisp blue shirt and khakis – a costume to loosely suggest a turn of the century colonial adventurer.

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Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

May 1st, 2010, posted in Live Performance, Yog Raj Chitrakar

Performa 2009
New Museum, New York

November 2009
Duration: 72 hours over 5 days
Curator: Eungie Joo
Costumes: Loise Braganza
Photography: Tina Lange
Production Assistance: Madhavi Gore

Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX is inspired by the 1920s and New York City’s role in that defining moment in the history of the world – a time of deep physical, imagined, and sociological changes impacted by immigration, architecture, and labor, caught between two world wars.

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Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing VIII

May 1st, 2010, posted in Live Performance, Photography, Yog Raj Chitrakar

Marina Abramovic Presents
Manchester International Festival
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

July 2009
Duration 18 days, 4 hours each day
Curators: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Marina Abramovic
Costumes: Tabasheer Zutshi
Photography: Tina Lange, Marco Anelli and Amanda Coogan

For a period of 18 days, for 4 hours every day, 15 performers presented simulanious performances in different galleries in the Whitworth Museum. The audience were required to check in their cell phone, coats and bags, wear white lab coats, commit to the entire duration of the 4 hours with their presence. After an hour’s drill with Marina Abramovic the audience was let loose free to walk in and out of the various rooms.

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Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing VII

May 1st, 2010, posted in Live Performance, Yog Raj Chitrakar

Making Worlds
53rd Venice Biennale

June 2009
Duration: 48 hours
Curator: Daniel Birnbaum
Costumes: Tabasheer Zutshi
Photography: Tina Lange, Eddie Jackson Lloyd Dyke and Elzbieta Bialkowska
Production Assistance: Eddie Jackson Lloyd Dyke

For the performance at the Venice Biennale, Nikhil Chopra as Yog Raj Chitrakar inhabits the tower at the Arsenale where for a period of 48 hours he eats, sleeps, washes and makes a large scale charcoal drawing on canvas stretched on the walls . 3 cctv cameras, mounted on top of the tower, project live images on to the floor, which he refers to to make his 360 degree panoramic drawing

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