Deichman Tøyen, Hagegata 28, Oslo and online
Friday 6th October 2023
10:00 – 14:00 CEST
Free and open to all. Booking essential.

The young boards of PRAKSIS (Oslo), Index (Stockholm), and PUBLICS (Helsinki) welcome you to a one-day multidisciplinary gathering to play with ideas about how arts organisations could use audio formats to reach out to new young audiences.

Together these three boards form the Nordic youth network, Future Futures. Between 2023-2026 they are working on the project Reaching Out, where each year they look at an established mode of dissemination to help institutions continue to develop the ways in which they connect with their publics. This year the groups are focusing on audio – across podcasts and radio, walking tours, artworks and more. They have been working with artists, meeting with institutions, and developing their own responses to the question: How does your board think arts institutions should use sound to reach people?

Programme
Time zone CEST (Oslo)

10:00 – 10:30 (11:00 – 10:30 EEST)
Welcome and Introduction

10:30 – 10:40 (11:30 – 11:40 EEST)
Performance with artists, Samvær Under Tilsün (Socializing Under Supervision)

10:40 – 11:10 (11:40 – 12:10 EEST)
Index Teen Advisory Board look towards the future with Nitja senter for samtidskunst

11:10 – 11:40 (12:10 – 12:40 EEST)
Presentation by PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board

11.40 – 12.25 (12:40 – 13:25 EEST)
LUNCH – including the chance to play Samvær Under Tilsün’s Pling Pong

12:25 – 12:55 (13:25 – 13:55 EEST)
Live reading performance by Publics Youth developed with Dear Friend (Sandra Nuut and Ott Kagovere)

12:55 – 13:25 (13:55 – 14:25 EEST)
Publics Youth in conversation with Sandra Nuut and Ott Kagovere

13:25 – 13:45 (14:25 – 14:45 EEST)
Q&A – ask the boards your questions

13:45 – 14:00 (14:45 – 15:00 EEST)
Soundscape: A ritual for endings – artist Fernanda Branco and PTAB

Reaching Out is supported by Erasmus+ Activ Ungdom, Kulturtanken, and Kulturdirektoratet. PUBLICS Youth is supported by Nordic Culture Point.

About the organisers

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (PTAB), Index Teen Advisory Board (ITAB), and Publics Youth Advisory Board (Publics Youth) provide paid positions that place the reflective, critical voices of young people right at the centre of organisations. Bringing together a variety of backgrounds and life experiences, groups take experimental and critical approaches to the role and potential of art and culture today.

PRAKSIS is a not-for-profit organisation located in the centre of Oslo that works to strengthen Norway’s creative field. Generating dialogue between artists, thinkers and organisations locally and internationally, at all career stages, and across diverse cultures and disciplines, PRAKSIS’s programmes foreground collective activity and the exchange of ideas, skills and information and are almost always developed in collaboration with partners to place the activity within wider contexts. PRAKSIS has worked with over 60 collaborators since 2016, ranging from large institutions including the National Museum of Norway, Teknisk Museum, Vigeland Museum, and National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, to academic institutions such as the University of Oslo and the Peace Research Institute Oslo, to non-art spaces including wrestling clubs, self organised paperless migrant and many more. Core activities include artist residencies, public events, youth programming, and publishing.

Index – The Swedish contemporary art foundation has a history of more than 40 years behind it. Firstly, with a focus on photography and publishing, and for the last 20 years with contemporary art as its cultural sphere. Index has multiple public roles as an art institution: A platform for artists and for audiences. Understanding that the role of an art institution like Index does not begin and end with an exhibition – instead there is an ongoingness to the activities, research processes, learning programs and relationships between Index, artists and audiences. Index works with an artistic conceptual approach that aims to carve out space and time for criticality, dialogue, curiosity and building discursive situations that develop the role of art today.

PUBLICS is a curatorial agency with a dedicated library, event space and reading room in Helsinki, Finland. PUBLICS explores a “work together” institutional model with multiple overlapping objectives, thematic strands and collaborations. PUBLICS is an educational resource where critical learning, knowledge production and discursive programming are integral to its curatorial approach. PUBLICS is dedicated to promoting new roles, networks and ways of working for small-scale artist run institutions to explore and further discuss the competitive nature of the arts sector to highlight the emergence of cooperation as a strategy to overcome competition, and instead to look to collaboration and innovative ways of supporting independent artists’ initiatives to demand better working conditions and solidarity in the art field.