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Finally, we introduce Nicholas John Jones ( ), Founder and Artistic Director of PRAKSIS, who developed and led R33: Together in Labour with Giovanna Esposito Yussif (), Artistic Director of Museum of Impossible Forms, in collaboration with Tenthaus.
Nicholas John Jones is an artist and curator based in Oslo, Norway. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of PRAKSIS. His work centres on bringing people together around shared questions, creating space for meaningful conversation, exchange, and learning across artistic, cultural, and disciplinary contexts.
Reflecting on the residency, Nicholas writes:
“Together in Labour began with learning about each participating organisation/collective, why we do this work, and what challenges shape our conditions as arts workers. We took turns bringing forward areas for exchange, focusing on pressures and tactics that travelled across contexts such as: professional development, stress, setting limits, protocols, offering generosity and care when under pressure, balancing local responsibility with international exchange, and the effects of “super-sized” museums and biennials on wider ecosystems.
Recognising these challenges as structural, rather than individual failures, opened space to think beyond survival towards longer-term cooperation, solidarity, shared knowledge, resources and advocacy.
Two weeks only began to scratch the surface of this work, and I look forward to future collaborations and projects.”
Images:
1. Nicholas John Jones. Photo: Andra Tarara
2. Nicholas speaking at the conference Rethinking Nationhood through Tourism, Heritage and Ecology, 2025. Photo: Warmadewa University
3. Nicholas at PRAKSIS’s launch event, March 2016
4-9: Images from the residency, including documentation from an exercise mapping shared challenges
