In an upstairs office of the Warburg Institute, we sit surrounded by books and records, listening to Elisabeth Welch’s version of ‘Stormy Weather,’ from Derek Jarman’s version of The Tempest. This conversation is a kind of office hours for the fictional university department that Time Is Away have developed with the Warburg Institute: The Department of Euterpe. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Warburg Institute; Photo: Stephen White & Co.)Euterpe also winks at the limitations of the museum space itself. The Department of Euterpe, then, gestures towards new ways of understanding and relating to academic institutions, as the pair acknowledge 'knowledge institutions are not necessarily comfortable spaces for everyone.' The Department of Euterpe (1926–2026), Time Is Away, at the Warburg Institute until 2026 until 3 October