Elementary is a long-term, multi-format project that stems from a lived performance wherein Choksi attends for an entire academic year (2018-2019) a Los Angeles public elementary school as a kindergarten student. Experiences and projects stemming from Elementary are still ongoing as of 2026. Key related works are Classmate and Hierarchy Study.


Elementary Sympathy, a live conversation work was followed by an exhibition at Actual Size (2018). Elementary Sympathy preceded the school attendance. It was reviewed in Artforum.

Elementary (Sympathy) at Actual Size Gallery, 2018. Photo: Suzy Halajian



How was school today? was a show and tell performance as part of a residency and solo exhibition, ELEMENTARY (how was school today?), at 18th Street Arts Center (2018). The first three months of school coincided with this. A four-minute video walkthrough of the installation and performance is here. The live performances at 18th Street were reviewed by four writers in Riting.

How was school today?, 2018, show and tell performance. Credit: Jeny Amaya

Installation view of ELEMENTARY (how was school today?), 2018, at 18th Street Arts Center. Photo: Brica Wilcox



Hierarchy Study (Elementary), a movement and mimesis based performance and installation at school and at the Box Gallery (2022). Link to the work page here.




The installation and book „Mitschuler*in: eine erwachsene Künstler*in kehrt in die Vorschule zurück“ [Classmate: an adult artist returns to kindergarten] was part of the exhibition For Children. Art Stories since 1968. Commissioned by Haus der Kunst, Munich (2025). Please follow the book title link for more.




SELECTED PRESS / TEXT:

Migrating Pedagogies publication, np: press (forthcoming, 2027)
Exhibition catalog, For Children. Art Stories since 1968, Haus der Kunst Munich, Distanz Verlag, 2026
Lauren Mackler in Artforum, 2019
Carmen Argote in Riting, 2019
Dan Bustillo in Riting, 2019
Patricia Sazani in Riting, 2019
Amanda Martin Katz in Riting, 2019




IN ORDER

Actual Size
Elementary Sympathy
performance
2018
A live conversation work was followed by an exhibition at Actual Size (2018). Elementary Sympathy preceded the school attendance. It was reviewed in Artforum.


LFCSA
Elementary
Lived performance work
2018-2019
Kindergarten school attendance for the entire year.


18th Street
ELEMENTARY (how was school today?)
installation and performance
2018
How was school today? was a show and tell performance as part of a residency and solo exhibition, ELEMENTARY (how was school today?), at 18th Street Arts Center (2018). The first three months of school coincided with this. A four-minute video walkthrough of the installation and performance is here. The live performances at 18th Street were reviewed by four writers in Riting.


The Box Gallery (funded by Pieter and Armory exhibitions)
Hierarchy Study
Live work
2022
Hierarchy Study (Elementary), a movement and mimesis based performance and installation at school and at the Box Gallery (2022). Please follow link for more.


Migrating Pedagogies
Back to Kindergarten
postcards
2023
Back to Kindergarten, a series of postcards produced as a Chrysalis Fellow, Migrating Pedagogies (2022-2023).


Haus der Kunst Munich
Mitschüler*in [Classmate]
Installation and book
2025
The installation and book „Mitschuler*in: eine erwachsene Künstler*in kehrt in die Vorschule zurück“ [“Classmate: an adult artist returns to kindergarten”] is part of the exhibition For Children. Art Stories since 1968. Commissioned by Haus der Kunst, Munich (2025). Please follow the book title link for more.



FORTHCOMING AND RELATED

Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
Knots and Unknots
scores for rope and children
As part of Primary Forms
October 2025-June 2026

DanceNotes
Untitled
Artist Chaplet (In process)
2026
Forthcoming artist chapbook with DanceNotes (2026)

Classmate
Artist Book in English. The HdK exhibition For Children is going to travel.
2026