PDF is free to join and held in English (due to its transnational setting)
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 46 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.
Mahtab will present his current work in progress and initiate a wide-ranging discussion of the ways that artists of colour tackle the challenges of exploring cultural identity in their practices. This session will be particularly relevant to cultural producers whose work concerns identity politics in theory and art practice.
The session has four spaces for participants to share works in progress, and additional attendees are welcome to join the conversation without presenting their work.
Book Your Place
There are four 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 40 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 Mahtab Hussain
British artist Mahtab Hussain (b. 1981) explores the important relationship between identity, heritage, and displacement. His work is based in long-term research and seeks to articulate a visual language that challenges prevailing concepts of multiculturalism.
Solo displays of Hussain’s work in the UK include exhibitions at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, Autograph, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham, and he has participated extensively in group shows and festivals in the UK and internationally. His work features in the collections of the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Museum, New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Autograph ABP Collection, London, and the UK Government Art Collection, among other institutions. His four published artist’s books include You Get Me?, winner of the 2017 Light Work Photobook Award.
More About PDF
PDF is a monthly group meeting which provides a constructive space for artists, curators and writers to share and discuss their current practice. It is 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 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 centre for art and learning 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.
Image: Tintype portrait of Mahtab Hussain by Keily Anderson (cropped)
