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 MoreFor 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 MoreResidency 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 MoreTaking 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 MorePRAKSIS 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 MoreResidents 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.
Read MoreDuring this residency Benjamin Lignel will work alongside a group of locally and internationally based residents selected through open call to collectively explore ways of making oral (hi)stories and (her)stories publicly available, through the creation of physical and digital platforms for sharing knowledge. The residency is held in collaboration with Norwegian Crafts.
Read MorePRAKSIS and Norsk Kuratorforening (The Norwegian Association of Curators) are pleased to invite curator and writer, Natasha Marie Llorens (US) to develop a residency examining the curator’s role in facilitating social practice in contemporary art, foregrounding the ethical questions of their involvement.
Read MoreDeveloped with artist Iz Öztat (Turkey), publisher Torpedo and publishing studio Eller med a, the residency explores the ways collectives can use publishing as an integral part of their artistic practice: articulating artistic imaginaries, shaping communities and proposing alternative value systems and political horizons.
Read MoreWill be held in collaboration with UKS and The Moving Museum, The Artist Entrepreneur has been developed with Jeremy Bailey and looks to collectively define new manifestos for artists working in this era of increased uncertainty.
Read MoreA Global State of Pareidolia will involve cross-disciplinary dialogue with local scientists, researchers and others in the exploration of issues of perception and narrative. It has been developed with Lindsay Seers and Fotogalleriet.
Read MoreSmadar Dreyfus has been invited together with Kunstnernes Hus to develop Cultural Mistranslations. This interdisciplinary residency will explore the potential of translation and mistranslation in the context of displacement (of objects, sounds, ideas, as well as of people).
Read MoreEliza Naranjo Morse and Ivan Liotchev of International Collaborative Drawing Project will lead In Time, We Too Will Become Ancestors.... Partners included: Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Sami Center For Contemporary Art (SDG) and Samisk hus i Oslo.
Read MorePRAKSIS joins with Oslo Pilot to host Belfast-based film maker and musician Seamus Harahan as its summer 2016 lead artist. Throughout the Mucker Mate residency the group will explore sound, movement and environment across Oslo in both public and private space.
Read MoreHeld in partnership with PNEK, Atelier Nord, and Notam and developed with British collaborative duo, David Blandy and Larry Achiamong, New Technology and the Post-human will bring together a multidisciplinary community of international and Oslo based participants at varying career stages to explore and discuss issues of identity in contemporary culture.
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