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.
PDF session 40 will be held online and feature Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Artistic Director of Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF) in Helsinki. Giovanna will be discussing “decentering as a method” in relation to her recent curatorial work on the upcoming Helsinki Biennale 2023, Drifts and the ongoing artistic programme at MIF.
This session of PDF is especially relevant to those interested in alternative methods of disseminating art through curating and art production.
Join to share your work 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. 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 15-20 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. 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.
Present physical objects, performances or tours via the inbuilt camera on your device.
Lead a discussion or voice ideas, with or without a visual presentation.
About Giovanna Esposito Yussif
Born in Mexico City, lives and works in Helsinki, Giovanna Esposito Yussif engages with curatorial praxis and research. Her background is in art history, museology, and critical theory. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, epistemic plurality and epistemologies in resistance. In 2019 she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective. She is currently artistic director of the Museum of Impossible Forms, co-artistic of Drifts, the curator for M_itä biennale 2023, and co-curator for Helsinki Biennial 2023.
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 Museum of Impossible Forms
Museum of Impossible Forms – MIF is a cultural center located in Kontula, East Helsinki, founded by an independent transdisciplinary group of art and culture workers, researchers, philosophers, and pedagogues united by the common urgency of enabling a platform that would fill gaps in the critical artistic practice and pedagogy for BIPOC artists in Helsinki. MIF is a dynamically open space that practices decolonial, queer and intersectional feminist values; as a heterogeneous platform to engage with experimental, marginal, and migrant forms of expression; and as a laboratory for experiences, critical thought, and racial imagination.
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.
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.
