How can art be transformative—for individuals, groups, and society? Prem Krishnamurthy explores these and other questions by sharing recent projects across design, writing, and experimental pedagogy. Taking each project as a rehearsal for the next—and as a way to explore different scales of transformation—his approach prototypes forms of connection and collaboration embedded within contemporary artistic practice. Using writing, music, movement, and conversation (+ karaoke!), this participatory event opens up polyvocal ways of working in and on the world.
Critical Conversations provides a space for artists and cultural producers that is rooted in exchange and inquiry. Organizing partners facilitate a year-round calendar of studio visits for Oregon artists by prominent visiting curators and arts writers, who also offer public lectures and other forms of engagement to our community. Recognizing the nexus between artists and those who reflect upon and present their work, Critical Conversations also sponsors a series of convenings, commissioned writing, and an annual publication that specifically engage Oregon’s curators and arts writers around currents in society and the field.