About.... Several seas away, some words were recently written about Alana Hunt and her bare feet slapping across the mud as she collected other peoples' damaged paintings in a washed away town. Wandering home, past the light of a soft fire, unable to disturb an old septuagenarian couple making love, damp beds smelling sour, a seemingly unmindful Alana searches for salt to put in the cups of nun chai from Kashmir that she holds tenderly in her hands. Alana's practice defies singular definition. Characterised by a gentle though challenging approach to participatory practice her work is best understood as a catalyst of culturally charged encounters that materialise through the local environments and social relationships she inhabits. Much of her recent work has emerged from the occupied region of Kashmir. From 2008-2010 Alana was based in New Delhi. She currently works for Warmun Art in the remote East Kimberley region of Western Australia and was recently awarded the 2011 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship. Her work has taken place across Australia, Asia and Europe.
News.... Paper_txt_msgs_from_Kashmir, the e-book and video,is now available in a limited edition print. Copies can be ordered by contacting Alana. Paper txt msgs from Kashmir will also be presented in Perth as part of the Fourteenth Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region, themed Asia-Pacific Literature and Culture in the Age of Digital Revolution. The symposium will run from the 4th-7th of December at the University of Western Australia. ---- Curated by Ryzard Dabek, Alana's video work will be sceening at the 2012 Laneway Festival in Sydney on Sunday the 5th of February. ---- As part of an accumulating process memorialising the lives lost in Kashmir during the Summer of 2010, Alana is currently seeking individuals to participate in the ongoing project Cups of nun chai. Invitations and further information can be found at cupsofnunchai.com ---- In 2012 Alana will be one of seven international judges of the Charlatan_Ink_Art_Prize. Held bienially in New York, and travelling every other year to a different city, in 2012 the exhibition will take place in Brisbane, Australia. ---- |
