PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-support group for creative people. A place to gain constructive feedback, it provides a friendly, informal hub for a diversity of practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress in a constructive setting.
PDF is free of charge and open to participants at all career stages. Sessions are held in English due to international setting.
PDF takes place at PRAKSIS HQ (Rådhusgata 19), at off-site locations (such as collaborating art spaces and artists’ studios), and online. Sessions usually begin with a short guest presentation by an invited contributor before opening up for other participants to share their practices.
Projects-in-development can shared be in a number of ways, for example; slideshows, showing physical works, readings, performances, or any means which suitably communicates ideas. A group projector and laptop is available to display digital files.
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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.
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.
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.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 51 - online with Kelly Lloyd
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.
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 47 of PRAKSIS Development Forum will be held off-site at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) and welcomes Kurdish artist Shwan Dler Qaradaki as guest presenter. Qaradaki will be discussing his on-going project Halo of Shame, which explores the suppression of his mother tongue through 34 large-scale drawings, which represent the Kurdish alphabet.
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 46 of PRAKSIS Development Forum will be held online and welcomes British artist Mahtab Hussain as guest presenter. Mahtab has worked extensively with the photographic portrait as a means to depict and question the concept of Muslim identity, particularly in the context of the UK and the USA.
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 45 of PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) takes place at Oslo’s artist-run space Pachinko. Pachinko co-founder Kristian Schrøder will start the session by introducing the concepts of creative practice that inform its activities, before inviting participants to brainstorm inventive new ways of working with exhibitions.
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 44 welcomes Oslo-based artist Sille Storihle to begin the round table conversation. This session aims to discuss the social and political role of art in a critical, yet playful way.
Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.
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 42 welcomes Oslo-based artist Ina Hagen to begin the round table conversation.
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 41 welcomes Geir Haraldseth, curator of contemporary art at The National Museum to begin the round table conversation.
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 40 will be held online and features Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Artistic Director of Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF in Helsinki.
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 39 welcomes Oslo-based, multidisciplinary performance artist Ayesha Jordan to begin the round table conversation.
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 38 welcomes Oslo-based art writer Tiril Flom to begin the round table conversation.
Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.
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 36 visits Oslo’s MUNCH Museum to speak with curator Tominga Hope O’Donnell.
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 35 welcomes Oslo-based artist Nikhil Vettukattil to kick off the session.
PDF session 34 welcomes artist Kirsty Kross to start our monthly round table sharing event. Sign up now to share your works-in-progress.
Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.
PDF session 29 welcomes artist Anton Benois to start our monthly round table sharing event. Sign up now to share your works-in-progress.
Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.
PDF Session 30 highlights relationships between artistic practice and parenthood. Guest artist Lena Trydal opens the session by sharing how she has negotiated her painting practice during her first year of motherhood as well as introducing what she is working on now.
PDF session 28 will be held online. PRAKSIS founder and director Nicholas John Jones will open the session by presenting for discussion, what he has been working on for PRAKSIS’s upcoming residencies. The session will then open for each participant to share their work in progress.
PDF session 27 will be held in collaboration with Kunstnerforbundet for a festive edition of our peer support group.
PDF session 26 welcomes artist Martin White to start our monthly round table sharing event. Sign up now to share your works-in-progress.
Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.
Are you an aspiring artist aged between 16 – 21 and looking for someone to talk to about your work? Sign up for this special PDF session now!