Harold Offeh, Reading the Realness at The Tetley, Leeds, UK, 2018. Performed as part of 'The Tetley Weekender: Experiments Workshop''

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PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly discussion group for creative people. It offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works in progress.

In PDF event 56 artist Harold Offeh will share and discuss his current work-in-progress including Reading the Realness, which looks at authencity in public and media debates and the Mothership Collective, an installation and playspace that tries to foster curiosity and utopian thinking. 

This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists and others with an interest in performance, social arts and learning practices as well as concepts of authenticity, pop culture, play and identity. 

Book Your Place
Within this event, there are places for eight participants and capacity for two to join Harold in discussing their work-in-progress. Newcomers who would like to attend and find out how PDF works are particularly welcome. Booking is essential. To reserve a spot please email: pdf@praksisoslo.org

PDF Structure
Each presenting participant has about 40 minutes to share and discuss their work in progress. PDF’s focus is on development rather than reviewing outcomes, so please do not bring finished works or projects to the table. To help us stick to our schedule, please select a single work or self-contained project for presentation. 

Practicalities
Works in progress can be shared by bringing in physical works as well as presenting a slideshow, reading or performance, or adopting any other suitable communication strategy. A projector and laptop will be made available. PDF encourages variety and experimentation, so please get in touch if you have questions about the format or special requirements.

More About Harold Offeh
Harold Offeh works in various media, including performance, video, photography, social arts practice and pedagogy. His work explores the concepts and questions that are raised by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. Humour plays an important role in his playful yet biting performative excavations of identity within historical and contemporary cultural tropes. He has exhibited widely at venues in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito, Japan. Harold is Head of Programme in MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in London, England.

More About PDF
PDF’s monthly events offer a constructive space for artists, curators and writers to share and discuss their current practice. Its goal is to enable cultural practitioners to learn what other creatives are up to, speak about their own work and share their perspectives. It is open to individuals at all career stages and every participant’s contribution to the group is valued.

Support PDF
PDF is only partly funded by the Norwegian Arts Council. As with all of PRAKSIS’s activity, we intend to keep it free and open to all. If you’ve enjoyed taking part in PDF or have benefitted from some other feature of PRAKSIS’s programmes, please consider supporting us via www.patreon.com/praksisoslo. Every small contribution - for instance, the cost of a cup of coffee a month - helps us keep our programmes going.

About PRAKSIS
PRAKSIS is a non-profit arts catalyst that fosters creative practice and knowledge production through collective activity and the exchange of ideas, skills and information. PRAKSIS seeks to establish dialogue between artists, thinkers and organisations locally and internationally, at all career stages, and across diverse cultures and disciplines.