PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 23 – Online edition with Catherine Hemelryk
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 23 will be held online. It commences with a guest presentation by Catherine Hemelryk, director of the Contemporary Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) Derry/Londonderry. Catherine will introduce her approach to exhibition making within Northern Ireland’s contemporary art landscape.
Join to discuss in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.
Book Your Place
There are 8 places for this session and booking is essential in order to coordinate the online group. The session will be conducted through the communication platform Zoom.
To reserve a spot please email: pdf@praksisoslo.org.`
PDF is free to join and held in English due to transnational setting.
How to Share Work
Each participant has around 15 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. The session will be limited to sharing work via your electronic device. Ways of sharing practice could include:
Screen sharing, which enables others to see slide shows or content directly from your laptop.
A show and tell method, where physical objects, performances or tours can be presented via the inbuilt camera on your device.
Lead a discussion or voice ideas, with or without a visual presentation.
More About PDF
PDF is an informal and constructive monthly peer support group 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.
More About Catherine Hemelryk and CCA Derry/Londonderry
Catherine Hemelryk is Director of the Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) Derry/Londonderry. She curates CCA’s international programme of experimental, contemporary art supporting emerging practice through exhibitions, publishing, research and residencies. Catherine holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Practice from the Royal College of Art, London UK. Catherine has an artist- centred approach to curating and interests include poetic and political artistic practices, activism and protest art, science fiction, modernism, brutalism and structures of movement. Catherine is a member of the newly established Northern Ireland Art Network and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Derry/Londonderry fosters a wide range of artistic, curatorial, and critical practices through five programme streams: research and production, exhibition-making, public programmes, publishing, and residencies. CCA Derry/Londonderry developed out of the Context Gallery in The Playhouse. Since its conception in 1992, the gallery has exhibited emerging artists from Northern Ireland alongside international peers.
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. 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 an internationally networked not-for-profit arts and culture catalyst based in Oslo, Norway. By connecting artists, thinkers and publics across borders and disciplines, we foster experimentation, creative production and the exchange of knowledge. Our public events and publishing focus on the urgent issues of our time and help open up creative practice to diverse audiences.
