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) 51 will take place online. Artist and educator Kelly Lloyd will open the session by discussing citational practices in relation to her PhD research for which she has conducted interviews with people in the arts about their livelihoods since 2017. The session aims to open a broad conversation about how discursive and collaborative practices are traced, documented, and expanded upon particularly in academic and creative writing.
During the session participants will have the opportunity to share their own works in progress or simply join the discussion.
Book Your Place
There are eight places for this session and booking is essential. There are up to four places to present work in progress, and four places for those who wish to join the group conversation. 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 presenting a slideshow, reading, performance, or other suitable communication strategy. PDF encourages variety and experimentation, so please get in touch if you have questions or special requirements.
More About Kelly Lloyd
Kelly Lloyd is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who focuses on issues of representation and knowledge production and prioritizes public-facing collaborative research. In 2022, Lloyd launched This Thing We Call Art, a podcast and online archive featuring excerpts from 50+ interviews with people in the arts she has conducted since 2017. Kelly Lloyd currently lives in London, works as a lecturer at the Reading School of Art, is PhD Candidate in Practice-led Fine Art at Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Art, and was the co-lead resident for R27: Party as Form (June 2024). www.k-lloyd.com
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 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 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: Logo for This Thing We Call Art. Credit: eva duerden
