Free | Held in English | No step free access
PRAKSIS invites you to a roundtable gathering exploring questions connected to the theme of Residency 33: Together in Labour. What key challenges are small cultural organisations facing? How are small arts organisations, artist-led initiatives and self-organised spaces sustained? What forms of labour, care, responsibility and compromise make cultural work possible? How can organisations support one another in conditions of uncertainty, limited resources and increasing pressure?
The event will draw on short readings, case examples and questions as starting points for shared reflection and open discussion. Rather than a formal panel, it is imagined as an open, collective conversation: a space for residents, invited contributors and members of the public to think together about the visible and less visible labour involved in maintaining cultural life.
The event is free and open to the public, with RSVP required so that we can prepare seating accordingly.
Together in Labour brings together artists, organisers, curators, educators and activists to consider the conditions, pressures and possibilities of small-scale cultural work. The residency asks how small arts organisations and self-organised initiatives can sustain themselves — ethically, financially and emotionally — in increasingly precarious times.
The residency group includes Nicholas J. Jones, Artistic Director of PRAKSIS, Norway; Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Artistic Director of Museum of Impossible Forms, Finland; Belén Santillán and Ebba Moi of Tenthaus, Norway; Sepake Angiama, Director of INIVA, UK; Patricia Carolina, artist, organiser and active member of Verdensrommet, Norway; Farbod Fakharzadeh, Director of Arte ry, Titanik gallery and Titanik A.i.R residency, Finland; Sophie Mak-Schram, artist, affiliate of BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries, the Netherlands, and Structural Change Artist at Metal, UK; and Marsya Maharani and Petrina Ng, members of Collective Collective (CoCo), Canada.
The residency is supported by Kulturdirektoratet, Oslo kommune, the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute and Norsk-finsk kulturfond.
