“It’s impossible to estimate how many words today’s humans generate minute-by-minute—and even harder to calculate which ones might still survive tomorrow. Past Words / Future Words is Prem Krishnamurthy’s newest experimental format for gathering: a dynamic prototype of a participatory performance plus speculative reading × writing workshop. 

Our unconventional event starts from Prem’s recent anthology, Past Words (König, 2024), which collects his reflections on art, exhibitions, design, time, and the process of writing over fifteen years, alongside two curatorial experiments that play with time. From there, Past Words / Future Words swerves, drilling deep into sunsilencing, v.1.0.0, Prem’s science-fiction-novel-in-the-making. Together, we’ll “open up the hood” of his novel writing methods, offering participants a chance to contribute to the forthcoming book through their questions and queries. 

In an age of AI and systems collapse / rebirth, language’s future transformations appear unknowable. So please join us in moving between multiple modes—from speaking to listening, reading to writing, teaching to learning (+ dancing to karaoke!)—to speculate upon what Is right now and what Is still yet to come.”

- Prem Krishnamurthy & Rafay Rashid