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.
PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board is pleased to invite you to the launch of a podcast series and a sound piece. The works have been conceived and produced by the teens as a conclusion to a year exploring a wide range of audio formats, including sound art, podcasts, radio and walking tours. Over the past year, PTAB has worked with artists and met with institutions while developing their own responses to the questions: What is sound in art, and how does PTAB think arts institutions might use sound?
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.
Goodiepal, Pruttipal or Gaeoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a Danish/Faroese musician and composer.
Goodiepal will be lecturing on his wide-ranging practice, including music archaeology, modification of 20th century technology and his newly invented Eurobot – a signature Pruttipal invention whose algorithm is reportedly off the charts! The lecture is organised on the occasion of the residency Dataton Dialogues with Tris Vonna-Michell and Henrik Follesø Egeland at Pachinko.
Using slit-scan photography and 1970s image slide PAX dissolve units, Henrik Follesø Egeland’s Extended Dissolve takes a closer look at the static image in a constant state of change.
This exhibition is the first presentation of preliminary results from the residency Dataton Dialogues. Phase 1, centred around production, research and experimentation took place in October–November; phase 2, in December–January, now seeks to open the process to the public through talks, presentations and visits.
The Art Encounters Foundation and PRAKSIS invite you to participate in an interactive webinar led by Elvira Lupșa, a cultural producer and art agent.
The Art Encounters Foundation and PRAKSIS invite you to participate in a visual arts webinar led by Ami Barak, guest curator at the Art Encounters Foundation and art critic based in Paris.
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.
These workshops aim to generate dialogue across diverse cultures, disciplines, and publics. They set out to develop knowledge through a process of mapping aspects of the art scenes in Romania and Norway.
