Image. Time. Word. Sound.
Four disciplines. One cultural lens.
Six weeks, one evening a week, spent looking properly at contemporary art, film, books and music. A proper lecture, then time to argue with it, in English, in Prague. You don’t have to know who Duchamp was. That’s rather the point.
The four disciplines
Nobody is going to test you on dates or -isms. The aim is smaller and more useful: walking into a gallery, a screening or a concert and having your own thoughts about it. Start wherever you’re curious.
Paintings, sculpture, installations, and why the gallery insists the pile of bricks is art.
Film and the moving image: what a cut, a long take or a held silence is actually doing.
Novels, poems and criticism read as things happening now, not as homework to get through.
Composition to club night: what a city listens to tells you where its culture is heading.
The Art of Now
- Curious minds who want to understand contemporary culture
- Anyone who has nodded at a canvas while thinking nothing
- Those who sense there is more to art than meets the eye
- People who would rather discuss a work than photograph it
- A way of making sense of contemporary art, without the jargon
- The stories and ideas behind the work you keep seeing
- Weekly discussions where the obvious question is welcome
- Walking into a gallery knowing what you think about it
Questions
When does the first course start?
We haven’t fixed the dates yet. This page is how we find out how many people in Prague want the course; once the numbers make sense, we schedule it and the waitlist hears first.
How much does it cost?
Pricing is still being set. It goes out with the dates, to the waitlist first, and nothing is due until you decide to enrol.
Where does it take place?
In Prague, in person. The venue is announced with the first dates.
What language are the lectures in?
English, from the first lecture to the last.
Do I need any background in art?
None at all. The course begins with the questions people genuinely have in a gallery, including the ones they would rather not admit to.
Who teaches it?
A qualified educator in art studies, someone who does this for a living and enjoys the arguing. We introduce them once the first edition is confirmed.
What does joining the waitlist commit me to?
Nothing. It costs you an email address and tells us the interest is real, which is the only thing standing between this course and a date in the calendar.
Say you’re in.
The list is what decides whether this happens and how often. Get on it and you hear the dates and the price first, and get first pick of a seat.