In PDF #58, artist Yaniya Mikhalina will introduce the ongoing research that underpins Appeal to All Western Countries, a sound sculpture originally inspired by a Soviet archive document dealing with the status of Tatar and Bashqort indigenous languages. Drawing on her artistic and personal experience, Mikhalina will explore themes of form, context, production and temporality.

Artist and researcher İz Öztat opens PDF 55 by sharing a video work in progress using hand puppets to explore artistic agency and accountability in confronting state violence. The session invites discussion on engaging with violent histories through creative practice, materiality, and narrative. Participants may also share their own works-in-progress.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 56, invites artist Harold Offeh to start the round table sharing session. This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists interested in performance, social arts and learning practices as well as concepts of authenticity, pop culture, play and identity. 

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 55, invites artist Dora Garcia to start the round table sharing session. This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists working with narrative, language, and politicised subject matter.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal space to meet, share, and discuss works-in-progress. Session 54 invites artist Shannon Rae Stratton to kick off the round-table sharing session. Stratton transforms her old notebooks into new sheets of paper, embedding traces of their contents and drawing and painting on the surfaces. This edition is especially relevant for painters, particularly those who work beyond canvas, and for those interested in themes of memory, materiality, and transformation.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 53, invites artists Ebba Moi and Anna Carin Hedberg to start the round table sharing session. A common denominator in the duo's artistic work is change – changes that occur in landscapes, language, or in a material. Their collaborations typically include people who are not artists. 

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 52, invites artist Bobby Yu Shuk Pui to start the round table sharing session. This edition is particularly relevant for those working with video, text, installation, sculpture, and performance and/or engaging with narrative, body politics, identity construction, and speculative ideas of possible futures.

PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 51 - online with Kelly Lloyd

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. For this 50th session, we invite everyone to celebrate PDFs longevity. To mark the occasion, join us at PRAKSIS HQ for a drop-in social and raise a glass to turning 50. Refreshments will be provided alongside a homemade vegetarian buffet by Mathew Lacosse and Sayed Sattar Hasan. We look forward to seeing you there!

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 49, invites paintings conservator Laura Homer to open the session by discussing the use of commercial artists’ varnishes applied over acrylic and PVA paintings. In addition, the session will open a broader conversation on how artists consider the notion of conservation in relation to their own artistic production.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. With Spring approaching, the March session invites artists in Oslo to air fresh ideas.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 46 of PRAKSIS Development Forum will be held online and welcomes British artist Mahtab Hussain as guest presenter. Mahtab has worked extensively with the photographic portrait as a means to depict and question the concept of Muslim identity, particularly in the context of the UK and the USA.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 45 of PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) takes place at Oslo’s artist-run space Pachinko. Pachinko co-founder Kristian Schrøder will start the session by introducing the concepts of creative practice that inform its activities, before inviting participants to brainstorm inventive new ways of working with exhibitions.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 44 welcomes Oslo-based artist Sille Storihle to begin the round table conversation. This session aims to discuss the social and political role of art in a critical, yet playful way.

Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 41 welcomes Geir Haraldseth, curator of contemporary art at The National Museum to begin the round table conversation.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 40 will be held online and features Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Artistic Director of Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF in Helsinki.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 39 welcomes Oslo-based, multidisciplinary performance artist Ayesha Jordan to begin the round table conversation.

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PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 36 visits Oslo’s MUNCH Museum to speak with curator Tominga Hope O’Donnell.

PRAKSIS’s monthly peer-discussion group for creative people offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works-in-progress. Session 35 welcomes Oslo-based artist Nikhil Vettukattil to kick off the session.

PDF session 34 welcomes artist Kirsty Kross to start our monthly round table sharing event. Sign up now to share your works-in-progress.

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PDF session 29 welcomes artist Anton Benois to start our monthly round table sharing event. Sign up now to share your works-in-progress.

Join online to share you work in progress or current areas of interest, while also learning about other creative practices from across the world.

PDF Session 30 highlights relationships between artistic practice and parenthood. Guest artist Lena Trydal opens the session by sharing how she has negotiated her painting practice during her first year of motherhood as well as introducing what she is working on now.

PDF session 28 will be held online. PRAKSIS founder and director Nicholas John Jones will open the session by presenting for discussion, what he has been working on for PRAKSIS’s upcoming residencies. The session will then open for each participant to share their work in progress.