Developed with Harold Offeh, residency 29 For real? addresses ideas of authenticity and identity in art and society.
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R28 - Your Pleasure, Our Pain - The ethics of luxury
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Residency 28, Your Pleasure, Our Pain - The ethics of luxury sets out to research into, and raise awareness of, the urgent issues surrounding the luxury industry through the loupe of the lapidary.
Read MoreR26 - Bricking It: An Urgent Situation 2024
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Residency 26, Bricking it – An Urgent Situation 2024, will explore the technology, history, aesthetics and potentials of brick as a sustainable medium. It is a continuation of PRAKSIS’s ongoing project An Urgent Situation - which pursues positive change in the travel industry.
Read MoreR27 - Party as Form
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Residency 27, Party as Form, invites a multidisciplinary group of thinkers and makers to explore the craft of social gathering.
Read MoreR25: Dataton Dialogues
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During residency 25 Dataton Dialogues, artists Tris Vonna-Michell and Henrik Follesø Egeland are working in response to the artistic footprint of Vonna-Michell’s father, Ed Vonna-Michell (1950-2020). The residency draws on the history of self-organised art in order to push notions of authorship and forge new ways of working with archival, image and sound materials.
Read MoreR24: Held ~ Experiments in Touch
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Residency 24, Held, invites a multidisciplinary group of artists and others to explore touch as a creative, time-based medium.
Read MoreR20 - An Urgent Situation: Rethinking Tourism through Architecture, Art and Community
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An Urgent Situation proposes that architects and creatives can play an important role in rethinking tourism; by acting with care and concern, they can propel critical changes in the industry’s infrastructure. This project will test this proposal in theory and practice. It will ask what the futures of tourism might be, and how creative people can help transform the often negative relationships between the tourist industry, tourists themselves, and the communities and places that form popular travel destinations.
Read MoreR23 - Understanding intelligence: Across human and other-than-human worlds
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This residency invites a multidisciplinary group of artists, scientists, and others to explore concepts and constructs of intelligence. The residencies will intersect with the University of Oslo’s Research Council of Norway-funded research project, Historicizing Intelligence: an enquiry into the deep effects of intelligence testing from World War I to the present.
Read MoreR22 - Repression – Expression // Violence – Creative Resistance
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This residency seeks to create a space for exploration and community between artists whose creative practices interact with their experiences of conflict and oppression. It is underpinned by PRIO’s ongoing research project INSPIRE which investigates creative practice and activism in contexts of war.
Read MoreR21 - Nature Scribbles and Flesh Read
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Artist Kajsa Dahlberg’s proposes a process of collective research into relationships between body and environment, through an investigation of the impact of chemicals and toxins on human and non-human bodies.
Read MoreR19 - Future Voices Now - Young Curators Residency
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Residency 19 brings together a group of seven curators aged between 18-21 to work with artist Stine Marie Jacobsen (DK/DE) and staff from PRAKSIS and Nitja to refine and realise their vision for an exhibition at the new Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Spring 2022.
Read MoreR18 - Perfection / Speculation
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Residency 18 Perfection / Speculation addresses connotations and ethics of genetic technologies. It is developed with artist and designer Adam Peacock and curator Danai Papadimitriou and held in collaboration with The Vigeland Museum and Karmaklubb*.
Read MoreR17 - Climata: Capturing Change at a Time of Ecological Crisis
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Developed with Lasse-Marc Riek, Goethe Institut Norway and Notam, residency 17, Climata: Capturing Change at a Time of Ecological Crisis explores sound and ecological change.
Read MoreR16 - Live or Buy
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Residency 16, Live or Buy intends to re-think ecologies of consumption in intimate, personal and physical ways. It has been developed with Nina Sarnelle, Ida Falck and HAiKw/.
Read MoreR15 - Carrying Histories
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Developed with artist Syowia Kyambi and Oslo Kunstforening with support from Goethe Institut Norway, Carrying Histories will explore personal and cultural histories through process and discussion.
Read MoreR14 - Now that's what I call an artist's residency!
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For Now that’s what I call an artist’s residency! art writer, Artforum contributor and PRAKSIS co-founder Rachel Withers challenges anyone who’d like to spend a month with PRAKSIS in Oslo, developing their art practice to send us the most ingenious, original and practical month-long work plan you can cook up. This residency is designed to support Wither’s investigation into the theory and practice of artists’ residencies.
Read MoreR13 - Painting Project: Out Looking Inwards
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Residency 13, Painting Project: Out looking Inwards will focus on three important dimensions of painting as medium: the painting’s materiality, its visual form, and the uncertainties and reflections that mark it’s making. The residency has been developed with Robert Bordo, Robert Holyhead and LNM.
Read MoreR12 - Taking Hold - The Double Bridge
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Taking Hold – The Double Bridge will explore and question the ways that solidarity, competition and antagonism find physical expression in social relationships. Performance for camera will be used as a means to test the unspoken rules of public bodily contact: for instance, in greetings, dancing, or contact sports. The residency has been developed with Phoebe Davies and Kunstnernes Hus.
Read MoreR11 - Monumental—Temporal
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PRAKSIS and Fellesverkstedet are pleased to invite German sculptor Gereon Krebber to develop a residency focusing on an ambitious large scale work as a means to facilitate conversations on monumentality and ephemerality, improvisation and scale; the protocols of sculpture, art and cultural manifestations in the public realm.
Read MoreR10 - The Collective Subject of History
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Residents will have the rare opportunity to explore the potential of Guttormsgaard's Archive - the extensive and eclectic archive of the artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard. Working alongside curator Elvira Dyangani Ose, the group will investigate the potential of the archive as a starting point for narrative – potentially both historical and fictional.
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