It was the National film archive of the Czech Republic (NFA), who initiated the idea of a Lumír Hladík MASTERCLASS presentation. In 2019, the NFA acquired his 70s film documentation of his work and included it into its permanent collection. On the occasion of the premiere of these films at Prague’s PONREPO cinema (2022), NFA asked the artist to generate a lecture that would explain in further detail how his performances originated, what inspired them, and above all, how they relate to the artist’s current work. Hladík recognized that bridging a time span of roughly 45 years would require a more comprehensive approach, and decided to offer a much deeper analysis. While uncoiling and exploring a multitude of interrelated memes, he also expounds the theory of cognition, the theory of art and eventually even detects a close tie between quantum physics and the role of art in our civilization’s struggle for survival. In March 2023, Hladík’s MASTERCLASS had an English premiere at the short film festival (Dresdner Schmalfilmtage) in Dresden, Germany. Here are some key points from Hladík’s Masterclass: 

How to incise the texture of Existence. 
How to outwit improbability. 
Non/thinkthrough/ability. 
What is a pattern-gap. 
10 trillion info-combinations in a work of art? 
Notion as an anti/non/representational interpretation in a state of superposition.