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Prem Krishnamurthy: Department of Transformation

Prem Krishnamurthy: Department of Transformation

Friday, Mar 24

6:00 PM–9:00 PM

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Join us for a presentation of Department of Transformation with Prem Krishnamurthy.

Department of Transformation (D🌎T) is an artist-organized group that mobilizes the power of art and design towards individual, collective, and structural transformation. Engaging with the entangled crises of our times, D🌎T fosters interdependence and mutual support between artists towards achieving common goals.

Prem Krishnamurthy is a designer, author, and educator. He directs Wkshps, a multidisciplinary design consultancy and organizes Department of Transformation, an emergent, itinerant workshop that practices collaborative tools for social change. He has directed and curated large-scale exhibitions including Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbos, 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 and the exhibition space P! in New York. 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 Letter. His experimental electronic book, P!DF, is available online.

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