Department of Transformation

BOOK LAUNCH: Past Words, Prem Krishnamurthy

→ 22 November, 2024
→ 7-9pm, Eina Bosc 
→ Event open to the public as part of Department of Transformation and einaidea ALTR\ES

performance, drinks, karaoke!

Department of Transformation
Prem Krishnamurthy
einaidea ALTR\ES

→ 20-23 November, 2024
→ 3-8pm
→ 90€, with 50% discount for the Eina community

→ More information: dept-of-transformation.org

einaidea calls on artists, designers, students, educators, activists and practitioners to join Prem Krishnamurthy in the prototyping of a multidisciplinary workshop towards new ways of being together. Using strategies aimed at a variety of researchers and pedagogical communities in the arts, design and architecture, Department of Transformation incorporates formats ranging from artist talks and study seminars to shared meals, role-playing, listening sessions, and karaoke.

Launched in response to a context of extreme ecopolitical and civil unrest, Department of Transformation brings together small interdisciplinary cohorts in a variety of schools, universities, and cultural institutions, providing a hybrid learning framework for connection and conflict, collaboration and pleasure. Its public events and gatherings offer improvisational encounters for community design exploring diversity and vulnerability, leading to new strategies for togetherness, learning, and collective healing.

Organized with einaidea, Department of Transformation will take place between 20-23 November 2024, from 3-8pm, at Eina Bosc. Interested participants should send a short motivation note to einaidea@eina.cat before 15 November.

This workshop takes place in the framework of ALTR\ES, einaidea’s Program of Other Studies, and has a cost of 90€, with a 50% discount for Eina community (students, alumni, faculty, associate researchers and PhD candidates). 

Prem Krishnamurthy (1977) explores how art and can be agents of transformation for individuals, communities, and institutions. His multidisciplinary work manifests itself in books, exhibitions, images, performances, publications, systems, talks, texts, workshops (and karaoke). He received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s “A Year With…” residency fellowship in 2018. His professional papers were acquired by Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies in 2019. In 2022, Domain published his book-length epistolary essay, On Letters. In 2024, KW, König Books, and Kunsthal Gent published Past Words, an anthology of his writing and experimental exhibition projects from 2009–2024. In addition to leading strategic projects with artists, cultural institutions, and nonprofit organizations across the world, he has curated several large-scale public exhibitions. These include Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, the 2022 edition of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art; Our Silver City, 2094 at Nottingham Contemporary; and Ministry of Graphic Design in Sharjah, UAE. Previously, Prem founded the design studio Project Projects / Wkshps and the exhibition space P! in New York.