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May 14 – June 14, 2026
At HOP Gallery
Opening:
Thursday, May 14 at 17:00
Curated by @sandra_nuut
Thanks to Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Põhjala!
Letters for the Future was an exhibition that took place at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch at Grand Army Plaza, co-curated and designed together with DOT (Prem Krishnamurthy, Sam Rauch, and Andrew Samuel Harrison) and exhibition design together with outgoing.
The exhibition included 30+ artists, designers, and collectives working across mediums of painting, textile, video, writing, etc. LftF reinitiated the library’s art-lending program—a way for works from the exhibition to be checked out by the public (as they might a book) further applying the questions of distribution and access central to the works within the exhibition through the institution itself.
It was a dream project in many ways. One being the site of the exhibition itself, the library, and its being in such a central location. Another being to bring works of those who have played significant roles in my own life at one point or another together in a room (y’all know who you are!).
Very grateful to all who contributed and for being given the chance to help put the pieces together of Letters for the Future.
Photos by courtesy Brooklyn Public Library and DOT
Photos: Gregg Richards
Thanks as always as well to @haltypefaces for letting us put Timezone to use!
In 2024 Valentijn Goethals (@valentijn_goethals ) and I designed the Endless Exhibition section of designer, writer, and curator Prem Krishnamurthy’s book Past Words.
Past Words is three books in one, with each section designed by a different designer(s) corresponding to their locations: P! David Knowles @idk.zone (New York), K, Studio Pandan @studiopandan (Berlin—KW Institute), and Endless Exhibition, Valentijn and myself (Belgium—Kunsthal Gent).
Endless Exhibition is the the initial proposal by Prem for @kunsthalgent to install exhibitions on the premise that works remain in the museum and on view to the public, only to be removed by the artists when needed elsewhere—limiting unnecessary transportation and storage. The works are rearranged within the space as new exhibitions are brought in.
The top half of this section is Prem’s initial proposal, with the bottom half showing works within the Endless Exhibition accumulating over time.
Published in 2024 by Walther Koenig Books.
Hey there! Join us December 3, 6-8pm for the year’s final meeting of Transforming Texts, DOT’s experimental reading group!
This month, we’ll meet at Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch (where DOT's exhibition with @bplpresents , "Letters for the Future," is on view) for a discussion of Elaine Scarry's "On Beauty," facilitated by Katelyn White and Roy Zunder.
RSVP at the link in our bio and we'll see you there, beautiful! 😘🤓
Department of Transformation is supported by @theclemente . Graphics by @markjfoss
Hello dear readers! Join us on Wednesday, November 12 for a very special meeting of DOT’s Transforming Texts experimental reading group.
This month, Talia Shiroma and Prem Krishnamurthy will co-facilitate an exploration of Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle.” We’ll begin at Brooklyn Public Library, in the pop-up reading room that is part of our “Letters for the Future,” a group exhibition curated by DOT and BPL Presents, and do some thinking on our feet as we collectively navigate one of NYC’s most incredible places of learning and discovery.
RSVP at the link in our bio to access a free PDF of the text, and if you can’t read all (or even most) of it… that’s okay! We will immerse ourselves in it together. 🤓
Transforming Texts is supported by the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center @theclemente . Graphics by Mark Foss @markjfoss
DOT is thrilled to announce our most ambitious institutional collaboration to date: “Department of Transformation: Letters for the Future,” opening November 3, 2025 at the landmark Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library! 🤩
Curated by DOT and BPL Presents, the Library’s Arts and Culture team, this group exhibition spotlights works from more than 40 artists and collectives, across media and modes—paintings, videos, sculptures, performances, works on paper, books and zines—that consider text and image relationships, distribution, and participation in unexpected ways. In tandem with the exhibition, a range of artists, designers, educators and activists will host a series of experimental public programs that aim to deepens BPL’s role as a site of social learning and community building.
As part of this collaboration, “Letters for the Future” will invite BPL cardholders to borrow a selection of works by the artists and collectives in the exhibition for two-week period. In launching this special, borrowable art collection, BPL and DOT offer a simple, but radical, proposal: that art should be available to all, to live with and learn from every day.
“Letters for the Future” is organized by DOT members Prem Krishnamurthy, Sam Rauch, Andrew Samuel Harrison, and Mark Foss in collaboration with Cora Fisher, Brooklyn Public Library, and BPL Presents.
Learn more at the link in our bio, and join us on Monday, November 3 at 6:00pm for the public opening! This special event will feature the NYC debut of “Past Words / Future Words,” a dynamic prototype of a participatory performance plus speculative reading + writing workshop from DOT founder Prem Krishnamurthy. 💫
Small Town, Big Hell was a workshop organized together with Alexandra Margetic @alexandra_margetic and Carlo Canún @carlocanun for BA students in the graphic design program at the Estonian Academy of Arts (@ekagd ) on gossip and rumors as a form of distribution.
The role of fiction in historicizing events and figures led to the construction of a monument and campaign that was dedicated to an important though unknown figure in the city, complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony by the Night Mayor of Tallinn.
A Place, a Place, a Place: Potentials was written, designed, produced, and distributed in partial fulfillment of my MA thesis in graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (@ekagd_ma ) and is about context, community, and communication.
The book moves though three spaces of varying degrees of closeness to myself; somewhere that I looked at from a distance (FOOD, an artist initiated restaurant in 1970’s Lower East Side), somewhere that I had visited and held interviews with those involved (a garage in Tallinn, Estonia where the function of the space moved between a school, a sauna, an exhibition space, and a studio dependent on those making use of it), and somewhere that I had actively been apart of what takes place there (a bus ride from Estonia to Kosovo where we published and distributed materials along the way).
Thank you to @seanyendrys , @lievenlahaye and everyone else along the way.
A poster for Kasia Fudakowski’s lecture about a Kasia Fudakowski lecture made of posters of Kasia Fudakowski lectures.
With @markjfoss@eka_maca@ekagd_ma
Reading Rooms is a series of readings that take place in different in various scales, formats, and locations in relation to a selection of texts and topics. Each text is accompanied by a score for reading and is co-hosted with guests to discuss shared interests.
You can read/see more of past iterations at readingrooms.xyz (click on the little cat and dog reading together on a rock for the archive of past iterations).
Pt. 2
1. Invitation for the introduction to be broadcast on @0hradio as a parasite on the topic of hosts and hosting
2. Reading Group Work, co-hosted w/ @alexandra_margetic
3. Foiled A1 poster of readers reading
4. Reading the Garden as apart of the exhibition Display Garden Garden Display at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
5. Reader reading Reading the Garden, a compilation of fragments from previous readings read with one or more person, back-to-back or side-by-side
6. Reading NEIGHBORS, co-hosted with @diandra_rebase at the first edition of @fairenough_bookfair at @a_space_for_etc
7. Reading Brno (reading receipts) with students @agd2brno
8. Readers reading side-by-side
I have been reluctant to post any “work” things here, but now after two years of starting this project I thought I would share and hope to continue in some form or another:
Reading Rooms is a series of readings that take place in various scales, formats, and locations in relation to a selection of texts and topics. Each text is accompanied by a score for reading and is co-hosted with guests to discuss shared interests. You can read/see more about the project and its past iterations at readingrooms.xyz (click on the little cat and dog reading together in the lower left corner for the archive)
Pt.1
1. Invitation for the first reading “So, You’ve Heard of Dishwasher Pete, but Have You Heard of Cue-Card Wally?” as a way to introduce the project and invite others to co-host future versions together
2. Reading “So, You’ve…” from cue-cards on a roof-top terrace in Tallinn
3. Double Trouble invitation, co-hosted w/ @carlocanun
4. Reading America, co-hosted with @migrationofwolves and @zodyburke
5. A prompt for a toast to a host for diners to read while eating @ou.osteria
6. “Host”
7. Reading the Restaurant, co-hosted w/ @ritadavis
8. Foiled A0 poster of the reading
9. Reading the Garage
10. Reading the Garage, co-hosted w/ @axiatonal@patrickzavadskis
11. Web version of a sheet from Reading the Garage
