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 47 – invites Oslo-based artist Shwan Dler Qaradaki to open this month’s session. The session will be held at Qaradaki’s artist studio at Oslo National Academy of Arts (KHiO), where he is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD.
He will be discussing his on-going project Halo of Shame, which explores the suppression of his mother tongue through 34 large-scale drawings, which represent the Kurdish alphabet. His drawings form a language to shed light on the intangible, the non-verbal, emotional, and psychological states, and the external forces affecting the oppressed.
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 8 places for this session and booking is essential. There are up to 4 places to present work in progress and 4 places for those who wish to join the group conversation.
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, 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 Shwan Dler Qaradaki
Shwan Dler Qaradaki (b. 1977, Suleimania, Iraqi Kurdistan) is a Norwegian visual artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, photography, installation, and video. He arrived in Norway as a refugee in 1999.
Qaradaki is a graduate of the Suleimani Institute of Fine Arts (Kurdistan, Iraq), NISS (Oslo), and the Oslo National Academy of The Arts (Oslo). Since 2021, he has been pursuing his doctoral studies in drawing at the Oslo National Academy of The Arts.
He has held numerous solo exhibitions, including individual film and video screenings, at, Kunstplass Contemporary Art, Oslo (2021), Cinemateket, Oslo (2020), IKM - Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo (2019) , Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2017), Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad (2016), and Akershus Kunstnersenter, Lillestrøm (2012).
His films and videos have been screened worldwide at international festivals such as: Human Rights Watch, New York; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; TIFF – International Film Festival, Tromsø (all 2021).
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: Studio of Shwan Dler Qaradaki
