#29 HOW TO PRACTICE?
MARTINKA BOBRIKOVA & OSCAR DE CARMEN

Considering collegial exchange, informal peer-to-peer/practice-to-practice learning, and attempts at friendship as a fundamental part of our remit, UKS presents the weekly walk-in-workshop: HOW TO PRACTICE?

For UKS’ 29th walk-in-workshop, on Monday, 9 December at 10am, Oslo-based artist duo MARTINKA BOBRIKOVA & OSCAR DE CARMEN will initiate a conversation about their shared practice. Since 2005 Bobrikova & de Carmen have been working together on different community-based projects with the aim to create new forms of social ecosystems. As a part of this on-going project, they developed the Nomad AiR residency program focusing on alternative models for artists in residency. More recently, they co-founded the project Future Utopia Community Key—within which they organize an annual anti-symposium IECES (International Encounters of Community and Environmental Sociology). At UKS they will open up a conversation with questions such as: How did they meet? How to share both failures and successes? Or sometimes even sharing the artist fee, a bed, and their travelling ticket?

NB: This is the final HOW TO PRACTICE? workshop before UKS closes for de-installation and holidays on 15 December—the last day of Victoria Pihl Lind’s solo exhibition To Be Born Is Like This.

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*Image material: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar De Carmen, Outsider in the North, 2018. Photo by Linnéa M.F Larsson