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 39 kick-starts the new year by inviting you to join our monthly sharing of work at PRAKSIS HQ.
Multidisciplinary performance artist Ayesha Jordan will start the session with some gentle and fun performative exercises to get participants activated for 2023. She will also be discussing the question, ‘how do artists build relationships with their audiences?’
Ayesha is interested in creating playful interactions through her practice, creating moments, tasks, and prompts which allow artists and participants to engage with one another. This session will be of interest to artists exploring performance-based art, and those with socially engaged practices.
During the session every participant will have the opportunity to share their own works in progress and contribute to the discussion.
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 by bringing in physical works, presenting a slideshow, reading, performance, or other suitable communication strategy. 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 questions or special requirements.
About Ayesha Jordan
Ayesha Jordan graduated with an MA from the Norwegian Theatre Academy in 2022 and works between Oslo and New York. She often uses characters and stories in her practice. Representing a facet of herself, they act as a tool of playful disguise and help her to connect uniquely with her guests. Her performance events include Shasta Geaux Pop, Come See My Double D's, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Inter 1-to-1, and In the Tube. Her acting credits include the Broadway production of Eclipsed at The John Golden Theatre and her role as the "The Girl" at The Curran in San Francisco, March 2017.
About PDF
PDF is a monthly group meeting which provides space for artists, curators and writers to constructively share and discuss their current practice. It offers 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. Every participant’s contribution to the group is valued.
Support PDF
PDF is part-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.
