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ELLEF PRESTSÆTER Considering collegial exchange, informal peer-to-peer/practice-to-practice learning, and attempts at friendship as a fundamental part of our remit, UKS introduced a new, weekly walk-in-workshop in January 2019, called HOW TO PRACTICE? Starting off the workweek every Monday morning at 10am during exhibition periods, rotating local and international practitioners in the cultural field teach their conspicuous version of this essential question, serving up their tricks and toolboxes, fears and desires, excel sheets, or yoga positions as UKS serves free coffee. For UKS’ 28th walk-in-workshop Norwegian art historian and curator ELLEF PRESTSÆTER (b. 1982) invites us into the worlds of the Guttormsgaard’s Archive—a collection of “art of known and unknown origin” assembled by the late Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard—and the magazine The Situationists Times, edited by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. Prestsæter is currently working on a PhD in art history at the University of Oslo and is a member of the art and research group The Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism (SICV). Prestsæter’s UKS workshop will touch upon the benefits of networking with older people, the mixing of artistic and scholarly methodologies, and experimental ways of dealing with collections, both physically and digitally. At the close of the morning, a communal “handling session” will introduce objects from Guttormsgaard’s Archive. #28 HOW TO PRACTICE? took place on 02.12.2019 www.uks.no/archive/how-to-practice/ www.uks.no/archive/28-htp-ellef-prestsaeter/