Lu Yang, The Great Adventure of the Material World, 2020 – on show as part of The Machine is Us at MUNCH
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 36 will be held at MUNCH, Oslo and welcomes Tominga Hope O’Donnell (senior curator of contemporary art at MUNCH) as our special guest. Tominga will be discussing the MUNCH Triennale, the challenges and possibilities of the format of a recurring group exhibition and welcoming feedback on the inaugural exhibition The Machine is Us. Afterwards, all participants will have the opportunity to share their own works in development in our friendly round table format.
This special extended PDF session offers all participants free entrance to MUNCH (courtesy of the Munch Museum). Meeting at 17.00, the group will have one and a half hours to visit the exhibitions before discussion begins at 18.30.
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 Tominga O’Donnell
Tominga O’Donnell is senior curator of contemporary art at MUNCH, where she/they curated the programme Munch on the move (2016-19), adopting a queer curatorial approach and commissioning new artwork. The programme received the Norwegians Art Critics’ Award (Kunstkritikerprisen) in 2018. O’Donnell has a BA in Modern History and Politics from Oxford University, an MA in Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London, and a PhD from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design on the exhibition as a spatial construct. O’Donnell is also Associate Professor at the Art Academy, Department of Contemporary Art, at the university of Bergen.
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.
