Overview

Duration: 27 Days

Performance interventions in
– Sofia by Ivo Ivan
– Gorna Lipnitsa by Madhavi Gore and Jana Prepeluh
– Budapest by Ivan Angelus and the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy

Costume Design: Loise Braganza
Set Design: Aradhana Seth
Film: Sophie Winqvist
Song Writer: Gautam Sharma
Music: Ranjit Arapurkal
Driver: Stephen Frick
Documentation: Madhavi Gore
Project Assistant: Shaira Sequeira

Nikhil Chopra’s performance marks the end of a 3000-km road trip from Athens to Kassel. A large drawing created on-route—a montage of landscapes reflecting on migration and nomadism—is presented for the first time.

After emerging from the muddy sea in part I of the durational performance Drawing a Line through Landscape in Athens, Nikhil Chopra took on part 2 of the performance. He made his way by road through Europe from Athens to Kassel from May 13 to June 8, 2017. He pitched his mobile room in city squares, abandoned villages, and the wilderness, stopping at each location to make drawings on the walls of his tent. Each location was also presented with an original song that was sung to a prerecorded tune. Each location offered new collaborations with local and home-based artists.
Eventually, Nikhil finished his journey in Kassel on the platform of the old Hauptbahnhof (central rail station) with a series of large drawings that were sewn together and draped to create one continuous panoramic drawing.

The project was commissioned by: Documenta 14 and supported by Piramal Art Foundation, Payal, Anurag Khanna, Galleria Continua, and Chatterjee & Lal.

“Drawing A Line Through Landscape.” Documenta 14, Athens-Kassel. https://www.nikhilchopra.net/home/?p=4463