Join us for a reading group exploring Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, discussing climate change, colonial legacies, and environmental injustice with artists Susanne Winterling, Rajat Mondal, and climate scientist Kajsa Parding.
Artist and researcher İz Öztat opens PDF 55 by sharing a video work in progress using hand puppets to explore artistic agency and accountability in confronting state violence. The session invites discussion on engaging with violent histories through creative practice, materiality, and narrative. Participants may also share their own works-in-progress.
Join us for an informal sharing of ideas and work-in-progress generated during PRAKSIS’s 29th residency, For real?
PRAKSIS and Karmaklubb* present an evening of performance, conversation, music, and dance. The evening will feature contributions by artist Harold Offeh and guests, and Jonathan Hielkema. Post-performance music, dancing and celebration will be hosted in the welcoming ambience of the Baba Bar.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 56, invites artist Harold Offeh to start the round table sharing session. This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists interested in performance, social arts and learning practices as well as concepts of authenticity, pop culture, play and identity.
British artist Harold Offeh will discuss his research into notions of authenticity and self-representation including his project "The Real Thing," through which he investigates narrative techniques in commercial contexts and the marketing of authenticity.
Despite decades of research and increasing quantities of undeniable evidence, a critical disconnect persists in our understanding of climate change. Join climate researcher, Kajsa Parding for a roundtable discussion exploring why critical environmental messages struggle to resonate or prompt significant behavioural change.
Join us at PRAKSIS as the residents of For Real? give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
The Future Futures Talk Show: Through the Lens brings together three Nordic youth advisory boards in an experimental talk show format. As part of their year-long exploration of film and video in the arts, the Index Teen Advisory Board (Sweden), PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (Norway), and PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board (Finland) have conceptualised and produced three episodes examining representation and power in moving image. Filmed at Stockholm's Konstfack in November 2024, each episode features the boards in conversation with artists and experts, sharing their perspectives on how institutions can use video to reach new audiences.
Reimagining Tourism is a two-day conference exploring the ways that artists, architects and heritage experts can help tourism serve local communities better. Part of PRAKSIS’s long term project An Urgent Situation: Rethinking tourism through art, architecture and community, the event is a collaboration with the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Balinese hotel and culture hub Samong Haven and Oslo-based architect Don Lawrence.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 55, invites artist Dora Garcia to start the round table sharing session. This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists working with narrative, language, and politicised subject matter.
With the exhibition All Eyes On as a backdrop and with a shared commitment to peace, Bishop Kari Mangrud Alvsvåg meets two of the young curators, Laiba Shafiq and Rosa Horiat, for a conversation about how one can work to promote peace. The night will finish with musical performances and a complimentary dinner.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal space to meet, share, and discuss works-in-progress. Session 54 invites artist Shannon Rae Stratton to kick off the round-table sharing session. Stratton transforms her old notebooks into new sheets of paper, embedding traces of their contents and drawing and painting on the surfaces. This edition is especially relevant for painters, particularly those who work beyond canvas, and for those interested in themes of memory, materiality, and transformation.
Welcome to an afternoon of presentations, panel discussions and interviews looking at the film medium’s potential for reversing gazes and recentering critical dialogues.
Join us for an online lecture by artist and curator 'Tope Ajayi, who will lead a workshop on culture as form.
All Eyes On is an exhibition of video works by emerging and established Palestinian artists, curated by members of the PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board, as part of the three-year Young Curators Mentorship programme. The programme is a collaboration between Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art and PRAKSIS.
Join us for the online lecture Happy Tears – the uncertain life of the party by artist and writer Brandon LaBelle who will offer perspectives on parties as creative get-togethers.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 53, invites artists Ebba Moi and Anna Carin Hedberg to start the round table sharing session. A common denominator in the duo's artistic work is change – changes that occur in landscapes, language, or in a material. Their collaborations typically include people who are not artists.
The urgency of our times, future and past lies in how these fields of art and science navigate humanity. e for emergence is a new series of art and science dialogues convened by Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu and Susanne M. Winterling, who invite you to join them for inspiring, constructive exchange between the two fields.
Join us for an online lecture by Brazilian writer and curator Leo Felipe. As part of a lecture series following R27: Party as Form, Felipe will present a performative reading of excerpts from the author's latest book, the novella a sex shop of drugs & food.
Writer and scholar McKenzie Wark gives a lecture based on her recent book Raving.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 52, invites artist Bobby Yu Shuk Pui to start the round table sharing session. This edition is particularly relevant for those working with video, text, installation, sculpture, and performance and/or engaging with narrative, body politics, identity construction, and speculative ideas of possible futures.
Don your most lavish attire and (please) arrive on time for a special evening choreographed by the residents of Your pleasure, Our pain.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 51 - online with Kelly Lloyd
On Luxury will include presentations by the residents of Your Pleasure, Our Pain followed by panel discussion addressing the potentials and pitfalls of the luxury industry. The conversation, moderated by professor Veronica B. Manlow, will touch on topics such as craftsmanship, consumption, sustainability, exclusivity, and transparency.
A reading of The Eternal Party by Maike Statz.
Join participants of residency 27, Party as Form as they share insights into their explorations into celebrating as artistic medium, through a series of performances, games, and other party fare that offer insights on what a party is and what it could be.
Join PRAKSIS and Museum as they celebrate the summer and launch the publications You talkin’ to me? – An Art Mediators Handbook and Museum no. 2 24.
The evening includes a lively discussion about art and its publics between Kristian Schrøder (Programme Manager, PRAKSIS), Ellen Lange (Editor, Museum), and Aasne Jordheim (Philosopher, with the regular column See what they see). There will also be plenty of time to mingle.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. For this 50th session, we invite everyone to celebrate PDFs longevity. To mark the occasion, join us at PRAKSIS HQ for a drop-in social and raise a glass to turning 50. Refreshments will be provided alongside a homemade vegetarian buffet by Mathew Lacosse and Sayed Sattar Hasan. We look forward to seeing you there!
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 49, invites paintings conservator Laura Homer to open the session by discussing the use of commercial artists’ varnishes applied over acrylic and PVA paintings. In addition, the session will open a broader conversation on how artists consider the notion of conservation in relation to their own artistic production.
PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. With Spring approaching, the March session invites artists in Oslo to air fresh ideas.
Taking place at Samong Haven in Bali, the residents of Bricking It will give short presentations of their practices before inviting audience questions and discussion.
