Becoming an Octopus looks into imaginaries of water and fluidity. This year during the Summer School Pragovka Gallery will conduct a twofold exploration.
Within the first part of the program, we will understand water not as a resource or capital, but as a vessel, site or environment for rest, story-telling, joy, curiosity and life. In the second part of the program, we look at fluidity as both a survival tactic and act of resistance within a rigid world.
Within the program we create space for experimental approaches that weave together multiple perspectives, ranging from art to philosophy, spirituality, post-capitalist theory, ecology, gender studies, and posthumanism. Through both online and offline lectures, artist talks, screenings, performances, hands-on workshops and field research, participants will immerse themselves into collective and embodied learning.
This Summer School provides an interdisciplinary platform that connects artists, scholars, curators and other practitioners to collectively explore new ways of perceiving and understanding fluid forms of being through contemporary art.
The Summer School is organized and curated by Julia Fidder and Tea Kříž. It will run between 10th and 11th July, 2026 at Pragovka Gallery. The participation fee is 70 EUR, coffee breaks are included. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs and food. Participants may request a fee waiver for economic reasons; please indicate this in the application form.
Application deadline: 22 May, 2026, 11:59 pm.
We will notify the accepted participants by the beginning of June.
Around 10–15 participants will be selected by the two curators and members of Pragovka Gallery.