Image: behind the scenes photograph of Satyajit Ray shooting The Middleman in Calcutta, 1975.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. It provides a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress.
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) session 35 welcomes Oslo-based artist Nikhil Vettukattil as this month’s guest artist. Nikhil will discuss the Institute for Scene Experiments, an ongoing project that investigates the generative potentials of the scene, and the film crew as a social form.
After this, all participants take turns in sharing their works in development in this friendly round table format.
PDF is free to join and held in English (due to its transnational setting).
Book Your Place
There are 8 places for this session and booking is essential. If you are curious about PDF but don't necessarily want to show anything (yet) feel free to come and see what goes on.
To reserve a spot please email: pdf@praksisoslo.org
PDF Structure
Each participant has around 20 minutes to share their current artistic activity. PDF’s focus is on works and ideas in progress, so please do not present finished works or projects. Projects in development can be shared in a number of ways, for example; showing physical works, slideshows, readings, performances, or any means which suitably communicate ideas. A projector and laptop is available for the group to use throughout the session. PDF encourages variety and experimentation, so please get in touch if you have any questions or requirements.
More About PDF
PDF is a constructive monthly group session which provides space for artists, curators and writers to share and discuss their current practice. It is an opportunity to learn what other creatives are up to, speak about your own work and share perspectives. PDF is open to individuals at all career stages and values each participant’s contribution to the group.
About Nikhil Vettukattil
Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist and writer based in Oslo. His practice is concerned with the role of representation and image-making processes in framing lived experience and mediating historical memory. Nikhil presents his practice in diverse ways, from exhibitions, workshops and events, and has featured at Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo), Kunstnerforbundet (Oslo), Kunsthall Oslo, MUNCH (Oslo), K-U-K (Trondheim) CAPC (Bordeaux) and documenta 15, Kassel.
Support PDF
PDF is partially funded by the Norwegian Arts Council. As with all of PRAKSIS’s activity we intend to keep it free and open to all. In order to help make this possible, we ask those who value PRAKSIS’s activity to consider supporting us via www.patreon.com/praksisoslo.
About PRAKSIS
PRAKSIS is a non-profit arts catalyst that develops interest, knowledge, confidence and careers. It 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.
